[78-L] dubs

[Michael Shoshani]

On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 22:08 +0000, agp wrote:

> This got me to wondering -- when a recording such as those of Harry 
> Lauder were issued in the USA (or outside of the UK for that matter!) 
> contemporaneously with its domestic release, what was supplied to the 
> non-domestic record company to produce disks, such as the case would 
> be with Lauder's releases in the UK versus those in the US. Wouldn't 
> all early 'international' releases be dubs outside their home countries?

No. Most of them were "grown" by the conventional plating method, and in
very many cases the US issue will carry the UK catalog/matrix
information in the dead wax, since the US stampers carry those indicia
due to their UK manufacture.

Michael Shoshani