[78-L] Columbia and Victor etc.

[davdieh at aol.com]

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DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> dl wrote:
> 
> Decca and Columbia would have been unlikely bedmates as well, except for their 
> common links to Odeon.
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> 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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...And U.S. Decca kept cranking out John Hammond's Parlophone sides on its "Gems of Jazz" series into the 10-inch LP era. 
David Diehl