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Shoot thank you for catching that Can I play them on an electric turntable?

Aeolion-Vocalion brought out the "red records" in 1921. That was a year or so after they abandoned vertical cut. The red A-V's are all lateral.

Any Aeolion-Vocalion, whether vertical or lateral can be played on a modern turntable. The verticals just need a phono cartridge suitably wired for vertical playback. The verticals are "needle records" not jewel ball type.

Wolfe wrote:Any Aeolion-Vocalion, whether vertical or lateral can be played on a modern turntable. The verticals just need a phono cartridge suitably wired for vertical playback. The verticals are "needle records" not jewel ball type.

Great. I will do that when I get home to listen to them

I particularly like multi-colored "swirled wax" records and it doesn't matter what the titles are. Two of my favorites are Aeolian-Vocalion WWI records from 1916. There is a set of two that were made at that time: (1) is "The Star Spangled Banner", which is red, white and blue swirls and (2) is "Allied Airs", which has the colors of all the allied flags swirled together (shown below). They are both exceptionally hard to find and not cheap... it took me more than 20 years to get both of them...

Other more reasonably priced, but very colorful records are on the Morrison label from Seattle. They are more recent 78s from the 1940s, so the music is not so great.
This website shows a few examples: http://www.georgetownrecords.net/MorrisonRecords.html