[78-L] Columbia and Victor etc.

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Tue Nov 11 14:53:59 PST 2008


DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> dl wrote:
> 
> Decca and Columbia would have been unlikely bedmates as well, except for their 
> common links to Odeon.
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Brunswick was linked to both Columbia and Decca, (the famous old Paul Robeson "Showboat" came out on Brunswick before it came out on Columbia and several old Brunswicks by Bing Crosby etc.  later came out on Decca, [I think]).
> 
> db

This is true. In fact I think Compo kept the Showboat set in print after it no 
longer had the rights, based on the pressings I've seen which definitely look 
post-1940.

dl



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