[78-L] Acoustic recordings on Montgomery Ward

[davdieh at aol.com]

All of the other Victor-derived MW's that I've seen were via the budget Bluebird catalog but some of these later ones don't appear to have any BB connection.
Interesting...maybe those Modern Mountaineer sides were a little too progressive for the Monkey Ward buyers.
David Diehl


 

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How do you know this? I was never aware that Ward's made this assumption.

Cary Ginell
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From: "Tom Hawthorn" <tom at thoseoldrecords.com>
> Both Cal Stewart's "Uncle Josh Buys an Automobile" and Arthur Collins' 
> "Preacher and the Bear" are on Montgomery Ward - acoustic, of course.
>
Montgomery Ward, when they introduced their own thus-named label,
seems to have been given access to ALL previous Victor r4ecordings!
Many of these were "standards," and some were still being sold on
Victor!

Like most mail-order chains, Wards assumed its customers had only
old acoustic players...so old acoustic recordings were considered
saleable!!

...stevenc 

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