Columbia Artist and Picture Labels

[@henryschmidt4712]

One of the rare labels from the late 1929 is the Seger Ellis label which is smiliar the the Silver Ted Lewis but Ellis is pictured and there is also a Seger ellis SLeeve that went with the record - I used to have one complete and sold it years ago.

[@78urt]

i just remembered something as i was going through some okehs today, i remember seeing an okeh picture label with seger ellis, dont know if there was just one but i think it was dream house. there could be the posibility of others on okeh

[@tim1190]

i have a shiny ted lewis record, i didn't know it was rare! i also have one that lost it's sheen so it's interesting to compare

[@78urt]

Yesterday I picked up several crates of harder to find 20s 30s and 40s, in it was a Rudy vallee capehart 78 with the whifenpoff song that’s a picture label

[@MarkAtnip]

That's a NICE FIND! I have only seen a couple of those in decades. Capehart sent out those discs as Christmas gifts for clients! The ones handed out as Capehart Christmas gifts have a special label on the back where the client's name could be written, while others have other things on the flip side. (There is one made for the Coast Guard, for instance) I believe the original was recorded in the Electro-Vox Studios in Los Angeles.

[@78urt]

@@MarkAtnip yup mines one of those christmas ones, got one of those hit of the week with valle on the bakc in the lot and 2 potato heads (my baby dont mean maybe and oh you have no idea)

[@MarkAtnip]

@@78urt Any time you find a group of discs with that kind of content, it's a GOOD day. (actually, a good month!)

[@78urt]

@@MarkAtnip you bet!

[@78urt]

@@MarkAtnip do you post anywhere else? i believe ive seen you in aps

[@JazzCrazy]

Seger Ellis had some picture labels on Okeh (whose parent company was Columbia) from 1928-1930.

[@MarkAtnip]

Good point! I thought about including that one since I enjoy Ellis's work, but I didn't want to be confusing by including an OKEH. I presume a lot of people that watch the channel wouldn't know that Columbia was doing the OKEH discs at that point, and I decided to hold off until I do my Segar Ellis video. I ended up with a stack of about 20 unreleased discs from his estate after he died which I will put in a future video. The OKEH picture label (and sleeve) will help convey what a big star he was in his day.

[@JazzCrazy]

@@MarkAtnip 20 unreleased discs? Sounds like an interesting video!

[@MarkAtnip]

@@JazzCrazy I hope so. Some of them aren't very good, but a few of them are quite nice. I think the reason they weren't released is due to the fact they sound "1930's" and they were recorded in the 1940's. They were a bit dated.

[@frankolen4137]

I have a radio record by vallee called strange in trelude good song

[@RatPfink66]

A sidelight about Columbia's "Radio-Record" venture in 1932. They were studio records with patter or a routine to simulate a broadcast. Harry Richman's _I Love a Parade_ even had a miniature playlet leading into the song. The gimmick went nowhere of course. What interested people about radio was that it was free - Columbia couldn't compete with that.

[@MarkAtnip]

Another video for me to do! : ) I like discs that try to capture the "live" feel, and there were several discs in the 30's that included an introduction (as was common on the early discs from Berliner, Victor, Columbia, etc...) at the beginning of the record as if it was being announced at a live event. Thanks for sharing this info!

[@frankolen4137]

I have a radio record g