Vocal Art (2)

Acetate recordings, often from reel-to-reel recordings or off cylinders. One-offs, or very small runs, title listings typed and glued to plain card sleeves. This from a VinylEngine forum in 2021: "I know it was a while ago but I can solve the mystery of your Vocal Art Lps on Acetate. My father ran a second hand record business for about 30 years up until he died in 1979. I continued the business for three years until we closed it. A key part of the business was to collect an amazing taped archive (on reflectograph reel to reel machines. Sometimes the BBC would contact him something they did not have in their library. My dad’s innovation was would to cut acetate vinyls to order from the archives for customers which explains why the play lists were different. As the cutting needle created the tracks a plume of black cotton like material would spin off and smelled quite bad. All these discs were given the Vocal Art label after the name of the list on which available records (78s and vinyl) were sold at a set price. My father’s business was James H Crawley Records - Vocal Art. He had customers all over the world. John Crawley."