[78-L] Ben Pollack Question

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Fri Nov 28 19:41:44 PST 2008


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Those are from March 2/31 and per Joe Showler, they're scarce takes. Let's 
> wait
> for Dr. Jessup (not Mr. Hyde) to check in on this one.
>
During the 1929-31 period, ARC routinely sent its "second-best" take of
a given recording to Compo up here in Canada! In some cases (like this
one) that meant that we Canucks heard an entirely different performance
than did record buyers "south of the border!"

...stevenc 




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