this page first published by John Wright, 18 Jan 1998
last update 18 Jan 1998
vintage@jabw.demon.co.uk
Al Bowlly recorded for many labels in Britain and recordings appeared on labels in North America. I
have used several of these to illustrate the successes and difficulties with scanning labels. Some results are very good,
others less so.
These images were created with a Dexxa scanner (in 1998). Often there was a problem that if the image is made too small the printed words become unreadable. For example the Edison Bell Radio label is from an 8" disc.
If I made the image real size then the song title etc could not be read, so I've made it as large as the 10" records. The Columbia label was a particularly difficult label.
Couldn't read the print in colour, so I scanned it in black&white, this meant getting the colour right was difficult and I still had to tamper with the printed words to make them readable,
the result is far from satisfactory so will try again to improve that one. Similarly with the Rex label. In time I'll replace these with better images using the Visioneer scanner.
With some labels good results were obtained very easily, for example the Imperial, Victory and Broadcast labels.
Various labels of
Al Bowlly records
| Ferrachinni's Hawaiian Band Len Fillis group Jan 1931 | 
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 | Savoy Hotel Orpheans bandleader was Carroll Gibbons 31 Oct 1931 |
| Lew Stone's band 28 Nov 1938 | 
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 | Durium Dance Band bandleader Lew Stone 1 Apr 1932 |
| Duet with Les Allen Radio Melody Boys bandleader Harry Hudson March 1931 | 
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 | Duet with Les Allen Al Vocale & His Crooners a Len Fillis group 24 Oct 1930 |