[78-L] Liberty Music Shop, NYC

[Michael Biel]

David Lennick wrote:
> Weren't there some in the 1920s? Not the store labels that Columbia et al 
> pressed,

But as is mentioned later on in this, the later ones were also produced 
thru the major companies.  The difference is that these in the 20s did 
not use the store name as the label name, and practically the only one 
which had the store name somewhere on the label was W.T. Grant for Diva. 
>  but didn't we read the other week that the Eva Tanguay record on 
> Nordskog was issued by a music store?

This might be the first one to have the label name the name of the store 
-- but see how long it lasted!  I think it was a furniture store.  I had 
heard the family is still in business, and there is a company making 
racing car parts.  Another company with that name is a religious book 
publisher. 


This is an anonymous posting on the discussion page for Nordskog on 
Wikipedia.

"Nordskog records was actually located in Santa Monica, Ca on Ocean 
blvd. close to the Santa Monica Pier. Also, after the initial problems 
with the waxes being sent back east [to ARTO], Andrae Nordskog began 
pressing his own records at the Santa Monica facility. I know this 
because I'm his great-grandson and have the photos and documents. The 
original recording device is at the Smithsonian, in Washington, D.C. The 
family is still in possession of many of the copper pressings."

  This looks like a job for Cary G!!  There is also a listing for 
Andrae's papers.  http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7s2006cg
But there is another listing of papers for Anre Nordskog, and this is 
definitely the right one.  
http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!228160!0

There is another note on a listing that says

"Brad Kay, musician, collector, and occasional record producer from
Venice, California (just South of Santa Monica) is in contact with
Erik Nordskog, great grandson of Andre/Arnie Nordskog."

Brad -- are you here??  Tell us about this!!


>  As for regular store labels, LMS dates 
> from 1932 or slightly earlier, I think. Gramophone Shop Varieties starts around 
> 1934. 

ARC pressongs?


Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 
> 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
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 10:19 pm
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Liberty Music Shop, NYC
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> 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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