[78-L] Columbia Record DIscography

[Ron L]

ISTR that at one point, Victor bought the assets of a company and by doing
so, owned some Columbia material for a while at least. Or do I have it
backwards and Columbia bought the Victor material? 

Ron L

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[mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Chris Zwarg
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Columbia Record DIscography

At 17:06 10.11.2008, you wrote:
>According to the data you gave in this list, this recording was from 1908,
Mexico City.
>A Victor discography states that the same band, recorded the same piece, in
1907, so I am wondering...
>Is it possible that Victor sold the recording to Columbia Records in order
to market it outside USA?

Nope, certainly not! If there are two companies in this world that NEVER
shared/exchanged masters, it's Columbia and Victor!! Victor of course had
their own South-American catalogue; and if they wanted their version sold
elsewhere (Europe, Asia) it would have been on HMV.

It it very common to find the same repertoire on competing firms (like Col.
and Vic. in our example) however - each of them seems to have looked
carefully what the other was doing, and were usually quick to add titles
that sold well on other labels to their own catalogue as well. As exclusive
contracts were rare except for some opera stars, you might even find the
same artist doing the same pieces for several companies - in Germany (with
its myriad of small labels) we have examples of a singer performing the same
half-dozen titles for three different studios *on the same day*.

Chris Zwarg 

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