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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Voice-O-Graph Labelography (Part 8)

This is my eighth update to my Voice-O-Graph Labelography project. I have enough information to post just one more variant for the list today. I have found a red-text variant of the Blue on White disc. I have assumed that it too dates to the 1960s. Looking now at those four of very similar design I suspect that the paper labels predate the writable surface discs. Cost saving measures tend to appear in the declining side of a products popularity. Eliminating the label removes a step from the manufacturing process. It's a shame neither of those discs have confirmed dates.

Remaining work needs done in the area of date confirmation and integration of the anachronistic metal-core green label discs. I also do not discount the possibility of more color variants. [Contributions are always welcome if you know more.]

Red Top on Yellow: Unknown, assumed to be first disc1943?


GEM Mutoscope Disc: 1945?




Red on Yellow: 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947




Red on Beige: 1946, 1948


Red on Unbleached: Unknown 1940s?



Red On Blue: Years 1947



Teal-on-Unbleached : Year: 1948 (assumed)


Blue on Blue: Year: 1948


Black On Red: 1948



Black on Green: Years:1951,1953 - 1955 (also had metal core variant)



ESO Mutoscope Disc: 1950s?



Mutoscope Black Label: (45 rpm) Years????




Black on White (45 rpm) 1957, 1959




Blue on White: Unknown assumed 1960s?



Red on White: Unknown assumed 1960s?


Black on Yellow: Years 1964






Black on Red: Unknown assumed 1964?


Yellow Label Unknown assumed 1950s?

2 comments:

  1. Great series! Documenting the underground-est of the underground! Any chance of getting some more digital transfers of these?

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  2. I've been ripping them weekly for years. Click the "voice-o-graph" or "acetate" or "transcription" tag at the bottom of the post. It'll send you to a long history of posts WITH AUDIO!

    Download at your leisure. I plan to leave them up forever. If you have trouble with divshare let me know.

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