[78-L] Liberty Music Shop, NYC

[David Lennick]

Weren't there some in the 1920s? Not the store labels that Columbia et al 
pressed, but didn't we read the other week that the Eva Tanguay record on 
Nordskog was issued by a music store? As for regular store labels, LMS dates 
from 1932 or slightly earlier, I think. Gramophone Shop Varieties starts around 
1934. I'm probably ignoring a lot of European labels..Maurice Chevalier was on 
Salabert in Paris in the 20s; was that a store label or a publisher's label?

dl

soundthink at aol.com wrote:
> What was the first record shop to issue its own masters (whether or not they were pressed by a major record company)? I need to know this information for my book on the Jazz Man label, which issued original recordings of Lu Watters recorded in December 1941.
> 
> Cary Ginell
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> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> Rabson's and Schirmer's (the publisher) also produced records, and don't forget 
> the Commodore Music Shop. All of them used the major record labels to process 
> and press the discs, but the stores had a select clientele they felt the majors 
> weren't paying attention to. They also reissued discs that the majors had 
> deleted or put out masters from English Decca and EMI of Reginald Gardiner and 
> Gracie Fields.
> 
> dl
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> 78records at cdbpdx.com wrote:
>> I have some Beatrice Lillie 78s recorded with Liberty Music Shop and 
> Gramophone Shop Varieties labels.  This implies these records were made for 
> these music shops.  Were music shops capable of producing their own record 
> labels?  Are these a specialty series?  Were other artists recorded on similar 
> labels?  Thanks!
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