Ginger Callahan Acetate Record - "Runnin" -45RPM - 1964

This one is a bit more 'country' than doo-wop, but the other songs were more doo-wop so I generalized in the title.
I like to buy obscure stuff, especially the 'unknown'. I recently was sorting through a large stack of 78's at a record convention, and found two metal acetate records with homemade handwritten labels on them. I always buy acetates assuming they are from home-record curtting machines, and I get a kick out of hearing what people recorded at home decades earlier.

But these were different for some reason. They were cut very clean, and were in very shiny high quality condition.

The first thing I noticed upon getting them home is that they are cut at 45RPM, and even though the disc is 10", its cut from the 7" '45' area, and its cut microgroove to use the LP needle of my record players.

Then I started playing them and the songs and the quality of the recording are very high end! Better than any acetate Ive ever played.

Thanks to Phunkyjunction, this has been identified as Ginger Callahan.

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• acetate

[brodafin]

Did you get an answer (I don't see one here)? Can't help on the song or performers, but the actual record looks like what we used to get as a demo when we recorded in NY studios in the 1950's-1960's. Those demos used to be a bit heavier than normal. We'd record to tape, and then the recording engineer would go in the back and transfer the tape to a disk like this on the cutting machine (looked like a torture machine!).

[78Revolutions]

@brodafin Yes, I havent gotten around to changing the vid title yet. But its Ginger Callahan, and I do belive its a Demo as well, a 'first take' or an 'alternate take'. Ill leave your message in my inbox as a remindder to get in here and change all the titles...

[phunkyjunction]

Do you still need to know who the artist is for this one?

[78Revolutions]

@phunkyjunction sure do!

[PerisphereRec]

The reason the recording is cut at that diameter is that this disc was an attempt at cutting a master lacquer which was to subsequently be plated and used ultimately to produce a stamper or stampers for pressing vinyl copies. So this lacquer would have been cut on a Scully lathe or something of comparable quality....definitely not on a Wilcox-Gay!

Masters for records are always cut on larger discs; those for LPs are generally 14".

[phunkyjunction]

@78Revolutions OK - Ginger Callahan - "Poison Love"/"Runnin' " (1964) BENJON Music 103 (BENJON is a label out of Louisville, KY - I am working on the other 2 unknown tracks for you. Hope this helps. Tony.

[ourvinylcollection]

I'm gonna get WMG after yo azz !!!! :-D

Very cool, but I was scared at first that it was going to be that scratchy (before you knocked the arm at 0:24 ) heheheh

Reminds me of growing up on the prairies. Rednecks and farmhands and drunk locals. :-D

[TurntableMadness]

cool