[78-L] Columbia 3114-D

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Sat Dec 20 19:02:38 PST 2008


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> These are indeed dubs, because Columbia may not have had legal access to 
> the
> eccentric trip groove at that time..English Columbia was able to use it 
> after
> the EMI merger. If it's later, then who knows..Columbia kept on dubbing 
> English
> matrices for some ridiculous reason, while pressing direct from others.
>
In fact, virtually ALL of the last few US Columbia issues were sides by UK
artists...! I suspect (confirm/deny?!) this was because US Columbia had the
rights to issue UK Columbia material...but ONLY on the Columbia label,
and NOT on Brunswick or other ARC labels...?!

Steven C. Barr 




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