Did red wax Vocalion make 12" records?

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Did red wax Vocalion make 12" records?

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I just bought a red wax Vocalion 12" record 35042 with the Ambassadors playing Oh Peter and Some of these Days on side 1 and June Night and Ida, sweet as apple cider on the other. The music has a slightly jazzy syncopated sound to it. AT the bottom of the label it says The Aeolian Co. 1921. I can find no reference to this record or any 12" Vocalions in Steven Barr's "The Almost Complete 78 RPM Record Dating Guide II, c. 1992. Does anyone else have any 12" red wax or regular Vocalion records? The record appears to be an acoustic record from pre 1925. I just read in Allan Sutton's book American Record Labels that Vocalion was sold to Brunswick in 1924 and that Brunswick pressed the new Vocalions in black wax not red. I believe that 12" red wax Vocalions must be fairly rare.

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I have a few 12" Red Vocalions (shellac, not wax ;) ). I don't think they are rare, just less common than the 10" discs.

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I have several, some dance records, a concert band, & Colin O'More singing "Come in to the garden Maude"

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I have 2, both by Evelyn Scotney, an Australian soprano. You can hear them on my YouTube channel (thesegoto80).

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I have a 12" one-sided red Aeolian Vocalion record titled "Danny Deever", a very dramatic song based on a Kipling poem.

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I have some 12" Vocalions with classical selections on them. Those don't seem to me to be that uncommon.

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Is there a better 78 record dating guide now than Steven Barr's "The Almost Complete 78 rpm Record Dating Guide" from 1992? I like to know the month and date that a record was made.

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marcapra wrote:Is there a better 78 record dating guide now than Steven Barr's "The Almost Complete 78 rpm Record Dating Guide" from 1992? I like to know the month and date that a record was made.
Check the listings for 12" Vocalions here...

http://78discography.com/

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Thanks, but that site doesn't list records in the 35,000 series.

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I have the "Actor's Equity"record ,and that's a 12 inch red Vocalion.edisonplayer

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