[78-L] Getting more mileage from a tune

[David Lennick]

With the records selling for a buck a disc or maybe sixty cents for single 
sided ones and the various client labels being well segregated by stores AND 
with maybe one in ten people on any one street actually owning a phonograph AND 
with the emphasis still being on the SONG as opposed to the performer, I'd say 
no. You wouldn't have found the top artists like Al Jolson appearing 
pseudonymously on budget labels too often (the Little Wonder one-off was a 
notable exception)..and the client labels were pretty much all reissues of 
older Columbia titles, or in some cases the original unsold pressings with 
paste-over labels. And of course if you owned a Standard or United or Aretino 
you couldn't play any normal-hole discs on them without performing surgery on 
them first..

dl

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> Did anyone (in their day, before World War I) ever catch on to the
> Standard/United/Diamond/Aretino records being Columbia derived?  Or
> did the odd spindle sizes thwart anyone comparing them?
> 
> On 4/12/09, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net> wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
>>> While Columbia's recordings were different from Harmony/VelvetTone/Diva,
>>> how about Pathe and Perfect.  The exact same recordings but vastly
>>> different prices.   Didn't people notice??
>>>
>> Oddly enough, NO! In fact, here in Canada, the Compo Company issued the
>> SAME recordings under different identities...and NONE of their customers
>> seemed to EVER figure out this ploy...?!
>>
>> ...stevenc