[78-L] An interesting phonorecord,,,?!

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>> Going through a milk box containing all Victor records...and found this?!
>> It is a copy of Victor 24678 (two Whiteman sides)...whose manufacturer
>> credit is "Victor Recording Company of China" (IIRC) in Shanghai! 
>> Virtually
>> ALL the text on the labels is in English...suggesting it was marketed to
>> English-speaking "round-eyed devils" back in 1934, when it was 
>> current...?!
>> So...(1) did this subsidiary operation issue ALL the current Victor 
>> records
>> as they were issued in the US Of A...or just records expected to sell to
>> what would seem to be an "emigre" English-speaking audience?
>> And, (2)...did Victor's Chinese operation ever record and issue Chinese
>> artists...?!
>>
> Couple questions. Does it appear to be manufactured in China or pressed by
> Victor in the US? Is it a master pressing or a dub, as many of the 
> Japanese
> Victors are? (Though I have Rudy Vallee's "As Time Goes By" on Japanese 
> Victor
> and I think it's a master pressing.)
>
Quite probably pressed in China, albeit from US stampers. Label does NOT
look like its US counterpart. Beyond that, no way to tell...?!

Definitely a "master pressing"...as noted,probably from US stampers?!

...stevenc