[78-L] Columbia Record DIscography

[Royal Pemberton]

Sounds like what I recall seeing in a Smithsonian Institution 4 LP box
set documenting Duke Ellington's  band's output between 1938 and 1941,
with the Master/ARC items on the first two LPs, mastered and pressed
by CBS, and the RCA Victor material on the other two LPs, mastered and
pressed by RCA.

On 11/10/08, Randy Watts <rew1014 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> They were refusing to work together into the 1970s. Labels like Reader's
> Digest and Time-Life would have to decide whose special products division
> they wanted to work with: Columbia's or RCA's, because neither company would
> allow the other access to their masters. A boxed set of big band LPs I have
> got around this by arranging to have two of the four discs produced by
> Columbia Special Products and the other two by RCA Special Products. But the
> RCA LPs have no Columbia material on them and the Columbia's have no RCA.
>
> Randy
>
>
> --- On Mon, 11/10/08, Chris Zwarg <doctordisc at truesoundtransfers.de> wrote:
>
>> If there are two companies in this world
>> that NEVER shared/exchanged masters, it's
>> Columbia and Victor!!
>
>
>
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