[78-L] dubs

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "agp" <agp2176 at verizon.net>
> At 19:41 04/08/2009, David Burham wrote:
>>This is not a first for me, I've seen many records with the same 
>>situation.  I've never seen a copy of the 12 inch "Harry Lauder 
>>Medley" where A isn't a dub and B the original.
> 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?
> 
Usually, the parent company supplied stampers...so that the foreign issues
showed their original issue number (and matrix if it appeared on "domestic"
pressings). Thus, the "foreign" pressings were not dubs. However, I have
recently run across US issues of British sides which are visibly "dubs"...
they have domestic master numbers which are apparently assigned to
the dubbed "masters," and DON'T show the UK master numbers in their
original type (or, often, at all?!).
> 

Steven C. Barr