78rpm label design (8) nother
in an occasional series of 78rpm record labels. 78rpm records often had
colourful labels as a way of drawing attention to themselves in shops - there
were no illustrated records sleeves, just brown paper cases with a cut-out to
show the label and sometimes an advertisement. 'The Winner' (later issues were
labelled as 'Edison Bell Winner') was a one-and-sixpenny cheap label first
marketed in 1912 by the British company Edison Bell: it was run by J.T.Hough who
had in the 1890s managed to acquire the rights to market Edison phonographs and
appropriated the name Edison Bell over the unsuccessful legal attempts of the
American Edison company to stop him using it. The 'Winner' records were
extremely popular and sold in their millions for twenty years: but competition
from other cheaper labels such as Eclipse (sixpence) drove the company out of
business in
1933. This is an early example of the label, a maudlin song about the sinking of the Titanic on 15 April 1912, which from the lyric appears to have been issued as a fund-raiser. The circular stuck-on stamp is the copyright fee of one half-penny. You can hear the other side of the record, 'Stand To Your Post', in episode 9 of my podcast 'The Sound of 78s'. Click here to listen to the record : the duration is 2m 50s and the file size is 2MB. Posted: Thu - October 29, 2009 at 08:48 AM by Roger Wilmut |
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