‘DURIUM’ 1930s ‘OLD KING COLE’S PARTY’ 6 RECORD ALBUM
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‘DURIUM’ 1930s ‘OLD KING COLE’S PARTY’ 6 RECORD ALBUM
RARE FRANK LUTHER W/ 19 MOTHER GOOSE SONGS – NICE ART!!
THIS IS A GREAT RARE DISPLAYABLE AND COLLECTIBLE VINTAGE 1930s TOY ITEM AND HISTORICAL RECORDING INDUSTRY ITEM!!
DURIUM WAS AN ACTIVE FIRM BETWEEN 1929 AND 1932 THAT SOLD GRAMOPHONE RECORDS AND RELATED PRODUCTS TO ADVERTISE PRODUCTS. THE WORD ‘DURIUM’ IS ACTUALLY A KIND OF ACETATE USED FOR RECORDINGS WHICH WHEN AFFIXED TO A CARDBOARD BASE MADE RECORDS UNBREAKABLE. PLEASE SEE THE END OF OUR LISTING FOR A BIT OF HISTORY ON THIS REMARKABLE COMPOUND MATERIAL!!
WHILE MANY OF DURIUM RECORDS, E.G. ‘HIT OF THE WEEK’ WERE SOLD IN A 10” FORMAT, THE FINE COLLECTION WE’RE OFFERING IN THIS LISTING FEATURES 4” SIZE RECORDS THAT ARE PART OF A BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED ENVELOPED BOOKLET WHOSE FRONT COVER SCREAMS TOTAL VINTAGE 1930s ANIMATION ART!
THE COVER IS ENTITLED ‘OLD KING COLE’S PARTY’ WITH A CARTOON LIKE PICTURE OF OLD KING COLE AND SEVERAL CHILDREN SEATED AROUND HIM IN COSTUMES, E.G. LITTLE BO PEEP, A RABBIT, A CAT, ETC. UNDERNEATH THE CHARACTERS IS IMPRINTED ‘MOTHER GOOSE SONGS RECORDED BY FRANK LUTHER.’
UPON OPENING THE ‘ALBUM’ YOU’LL SEE THAT THESE CUTE MINIATURE RECORDS ARE PAIRED TOGETHER IN SLEEVES – 2 RECORDS IN EACH OF THREE SLEEVES FOR A TOTAL OF SIX.
EACH RECORD BEARS THE THE ‘DURIUM MOTHER GOOSE’ NAME AND THE TITLES OF THE SONGS AND HOW THEY MATCH UP TO THE INDEX WHICH IS PRINTED ON THE BACK COVER OF THE ALBUM COVER. SEE BELOW FOR THE 19 SONG TITLES INCLUDED IN THIS COLLECTION.
EMBOSSED IN THE CENTER OF EACH RECORD IS ‘DURIUM PRODUCTS INC. NEW YORK T.M. REG. MADE IN U.S.A.’
BUT THE ILLUSTRATIVE ARTWORK DOESN’T STOP THERE – THE BACK OF EACH RECORD – AS EXPLAINED ABOVE – IS BACKED WITH CARDBOARD AND EACH IS BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH VINTAGE 1930s CHILDREN ART THAT DIRECTLY APPLIES TO THE TITLES ON EACH RECORD. YUP, THAT’S RIGHT! EACH OF THE BACKS HAS DIFFERENT ILLUSTRATIONS – ANYWHERE FROM 3 TO 7 ON EACH CARD!!
THE BACK COVER CONTAINS INFO ON THE SONG TITLES FOR EACH RECORD AS FOLLOWS:
PART 1
Old King Cole
Little Bo Peep
Jack and Jill
Part 2
Ride a Cock Horse
Hot Cross Buns
Hey Diddle Diddle
London Bridge
Part 3
Pussy Cat
Dickory Dickory Dock
Farmer in the Dell
Part 4
Little Jack Horner
Little Miss Muffet
Ding Dong Bell
Baby Bunting
Part 5
Sing a Song of Sixpence
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Part 6
The North Wind Doth Blow
Twinkle Twinkle
Rock a Bye Baby
AND THE ‘DURIUM PRODUCTS, INC. 460 WEST 34TH ST. NEW YORK, N.Y.’ NAME AND ADDRESS APPEARS AT THE BOTTOM.
THE COVER AND RECORDS SHOW SOME WEAR, BUT THE ARTWORK IS JUST PHENOMENAL. AND THE CONCEPT OF OWNING 4” RECORDS CREATED OUT OF WHAT WAS THEN, THE STATE-OF-THE-ART DURIUM TECHNOLOGICAL MATERIAL WITH BRILLIANT ILLUSTRATIONS ON CARDBOARD BACKING MAKES THIS A GREAT HISTORICAL PHONOGRAPH / TOY COLLECTOR’S ITEM!!
PLEASE CHECK OUR PHOTOS FOR VISUAL DETAILS!!
DR. BEANS' DURIUM COMPOUND
The plastic that would come to be used in Hit of the Week records was developed in 1927 by three Columbia University chemistry professors — Dr. Hal Trueman Beans, Dr. Louis Hammett, and Dr. George H. Walden, Jr. Beans was the primary researcher and would soon become the product's chief spokesman and promoter. The patent application stated that the compound began as a mixture of formaldehyde solution and linseed oil, dissolved in resorcinol. The resulting mixture was blended drop-by-drop with a sodium hydroxide and formaldehyde solution, then cooled. The light brownish coloration resulted not from dye, but from the compound’s photosensitive qualities. Unlike the slow-cooling shellac compounds used in standard 78 records, Durium hardened so quickly after heating that, as Time magazine reported, “[records] can be stamped on it with the speed of a printing press.” _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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