Saturday, February 28, 2009

Circus Music #3


Ringling Victor Combo-1, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Ringling Victor Combo-1

When #22438 was released, Victor record labels featured this fancy scroll design to identify them as having been recorded using the “Orthophonic” (i.e. electrical) process. This particular record must have enjoyed fairly good sales, since it remained in the Victor catalogue well into the 1940s and even after its audio quality must have sounded quite primitive compared to the Ringling Band’s later recordings.

Posted by Buckles at 2/28/2009 06:10:00 AM

2 comments:

Chic Silber said...

On the left side of the label

it mentions "for best results

use Victor needles"

As I recall these needles

resembled 1 penny finishing

nails with a sharp point

Chic

28 February, 2009 09:22
Anonymous said...

I grew up listening to all my mother's Mario Lanza 78's and a lot of ones she brought from Italy 1936 era.I can recall going to the appliance store on the town square in Rochester,In. in our 1955 red ford station wagon and my dad and brother purchasing the newest thing in record players. It was a hi fi stereo. The man had a worker l.P. that you could hear the train on one side and the air horn on the other side and you did not have to have a box full of needles to keep it going. Also it had 78-45-and 33 1/3 speeds. It put us right in the 60's tech.

28 February, 2009 12:01

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