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Gramophoneshane,

The first of your labels is intriguing. It is perfectly identical to a German Homocord in all but that the name "Homocord" has been replaced by "The Hit" and that the printing is in English. Must have been an attempt by Homocord to break into the English-speakning market.

Is the performance on it any good?

Fredrik

Fredrik wrote:The first of your labels is intriguing. It is perfectly identical to a German Homocord in all but that the name "Homocord" has been replaced by "The Hit" and that the printing is in English. Must have been an attempt by Homocord to break into the English-speaking market.

Fredrik,

I believe you are talking about our good friend Homokord (sorry about the spelling joke—I couldn’t resist linking to the user). Not to be confused with the HomoPhone.

I think Shane is trying to remind me that not only do I need to cut out a lot more of your labels—I also really need to do some of his. The record label transparencies thread has a lot of very great source material between you guys (and other members).

— MordEth

Both spellings exist. I think it's the same company and that Homokord is an earlier spelling and Homocord a later one.

Here's a scan of a "usual" Homocord label of the same type as Gramophoneshane's "The Hit" (taken from Dismuke's Hit of the Week):



Fredrik

Fredrik wrote:Both spellings exist. I think it's the same company and that Homokord is an earlier spelling and Homocord a later one.

Fredrik,

Thanks for correcting me on that. It sounds oh-so-much-more-German with the ‘k’.

Although it might be better if they could have gotten an umlaut in there somewhere.

(Sorry, Norman, Starkton, etc.—I’m only joking.)

— MordEth

By the way: I found that I already had made a scan of the rare Bingola label that I mentioned earlier in this thread.

I think that Allan Sutton's book on Amerivan record labels reports 1005 or 1008 as the highest known catalogue number. Evidently he hadn't seen my copy...

Fredrik

Yep, the "The Hit" is absolutely Homocord. Btw. the real early Homocord were labelled "Homophon Record" and had an announcement. The red logo style logo indicates it to be an acoustic recording, likely around 1925/26. Homocord started relatively late in 1927 with electric recordings, and they actually did sound terrible.

And here some more cylinder labels, all German:

Sehr schön!

I particularilly enjoyed the one with the royal Saxonian coat of arms.

Fredrik

Here's a Brunswick Cliftophone celebrity issue. First one I've ever seen. The gold label is VERY gold and was fussy to photograph. This is an American recording of course.

Now speaking of unusual, here is the first Brunswick label. They were issued only in Canada beginning around 1916. They are all vertical cut and the masters, I understand, came from Pathé. They are mega-rare and I have only seen a handful over the years. I have six of them and only managed to smash one . . (The second Brunswick label, by the way , looks like the one with which you guys will be familiar, but again the recordings are all vertical cut.)
The second picture is another vertical cut side. The Phonola company became Electrohome and it's nominally still in business, believe it or not