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Recently ran across a batch of Lyric records. Did they record their own material, or did they get it from other record companies? Thanks.

Ted Staunton's site : http://www.tedstaunton.com/labels/1910_ ... ord_1.html shows some Lyrics.

The U.K. Lyric being noted as coming from German masters. The U.S. Lyrics by the likes of Frank C. Stanley, Henry Burr & the All Star Trio made records for Columbia. So I think it likely that the records shown on the Staunton site could be from Columbia masters. But my Columbia book doesn't say anything about the Lyric label.

Rust's "American Record Label Book" says Lyric/Lyraphone used Paramount for it's material.

For more on Lyric check out:

http://majesticrecord.com/labelsl.htm

… at the bottom of page. This website not only shows USA Lyric label variations, but also record sleeves, a brief history, and a link showing images of an attractive and unusual phonograph this company produced. The surviving example apparently can play lateral records (a patent violation when the machine was introduced in 1916), but the announcing advertisement touts a "universal" rubber tonearm, without much explanation of the "universal" properties of this tonearm. I will bet there is more on this phonograph in Paul & Fabrizio's "Phonographs With Flair."

The author of the above website, Glenn Longwell, once posted on 78-L asking for information about Pathé vertical cut masters issued on Lyric. I don't know that he got a response. Aside from this, as far as I know, Lyric recorded their own masters. That several of the artists appearing on Lyric also appeared on Columbia only shows 1) that those artists were freelancing and 2) that Lyric's offering of the same artists recording the same or similar selections (vertically cut ) as offered on Columbia (on the more popular lateral cut) demonstrates why Lyric did not survive the economic recession of 1921 in the USA.

There may have been some masters provided by the New York Recording Laboratories (Paramount), as Rust claims, but that was not the majority. EDIT: My review of van Rijn and van der Tuuk's NYRL discography shows no NYRL masters appearing on Lyric. Perhaps Rust confused the Lyraphone Co. of America, makers of Lyric records, with Lyratone, which did, but those masters were recorded after the Lyraphone Co. had faded into history.

Best wishes, Mark

I'm not surprised that 78-L didn't answer a legitimate question. Those are probably some of the same clowns on the 78Fb group that think it's necessary, when discussing lines from Irving Berlin's A Little Bungalow about "get busy attending/to the happy ending" feel the need to "improve" upon it by explaining what exactly that refers to, using 21st century terms.

Or, maybe the Jigsaw Puzzle Blues posting where it was established by half the contributors that Jimmy Dorsey was playing both clarinet and "trumpet," each repeating that factoid over and over.

If I have a more serious question, I bring it here. A lot of those people, I repeat, are clowns, and probably serve as a good inspiration as to why people would NOT want to collect 78rpm records.

Rastus10, thank you for your post, but I'm not sure what to make of it. Do you have information to share about Lyric brand 78rpm records?