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Oscar Opheim – Audiodisk
This curious record was found within the Bowness Arts collection of vintage records. The only information included with the record is the name "Oscar Opheim" handwritten in script on the Side A label, and that it hails from "The Hi-Fi House" in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The record contains ten tracks on each side, but is so badly warped that only the inner five tracks from each side (ten tracks in total) are playable. Any information about the performer, performance, recording, or songs is appreciated.
Label: Audiodisc
Format: Actetate
Released: circa1945
Genre: Popular Instrumental
Style: Easy Listening
Tracklist:
1. Unidentified Instrumental 0:04
2. Unidentified Instrumental 1:31
3. Five Foot Two 3:08
4. Unidentified Instrumental 4:44
5. Unidentified Instrumental 7:25
6. Unidentified Instrumental 9:02
7. (Won't You Come Home) Bill Bailey 10:55
8. Alexander's Ragtime Band 12:30
9. Unidentified Instrumental 14:17
10. Unidentified Instrumental 15:35
Audiodisc was an American brand of blank acetate discs made by Audio Devices, Inc., USA under license from Pyral France, the inventor of the lacquer disc. Professional Audiodisc acetates were sold to the recording industry, and commercial versions were marketed to home users and hobbyists from the 1940s on.
Acetate lacquer discs are used for instantaneous playback records and master discs for manufacture of records. Blank discs are placed on the turntable of the disc cutting lathe and a music groove is cut into the blank surface. Prior to widespread usage of magnetic tape, radio stations and studios all used disc cutting lathes. It was not unusual for an artist to leave the recording studio with an "acetate" under their arm or record company staff to have a few discs cut to rush them to radio stations for promotional use. "Actetates" are lathe-cut records. They are not record pressings and they have never seen the inside of a record press.
Oscar Opheim – Audiodisk
This curious record was found within the Bowness Arts collection of vintage records. The only information included with the record is the name "Oscar Opheim" handwritten in script on the Side A label, and that it hails from "The Hi-Fi House" in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The record contains ten tracks on each side, but is so badly warped that only the inner five tracks from each side (ten tracks in total) are playable. Any information about the performer, performance, recording, or songs is appreciated.
Label: Audiodisc
Format: Actetate
Released: circa1945
Genre: Popular Instrumental
Style: Easy Listening
Tracklist:
1. Unidentified Instrumental 0:04
2. Unidentified Instrumental 1:31
3. Five Foot Two 3:08
4. Unidentified Instrumental 4:44
5. Unidentified Instrumental 7:25
6. Unidentified Instrumental 9:02
7. (Won't You Come Home) Bill Bailey 10:55
8. Alexander's Ragtime Band 12:30
9. Unidentified Instrumental 14:17
10. Unidentified Instrumental 15:35
Audiodisc was an American brand of blank acetate discs made by Audio Devices, Inc., USA under license from Pyral France, the inventor of the lacquer disc. Professional Audiodisc acetates were sold to the recording industry, and commercial versions were marketed to home users and hobbyists from the 1940s on.
Acetate lacquer discs are used for instantaneous playback records and master discs for manufacture of records. Blank discs are placed on the turntable of the disc cutting lathe and a music groove is cut into the blank surface. Prior to widespread usage of magnetic tape, radio stations and studios all used disc cutting lathes. It was not unusual for an artist to leave the recording studio with an "acetate" under their arm or record company staff to have a few discs cut to rush them to radio stations for promotional use. "Actetates" are lathe-cut records. They are not record pressings and they have never seen the inside of a record press.
