[78-L] Hit Parader record ads and '58 acoustical recorder ad

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Sat Sep 5 21:15:30 PDT 2009


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>>>
>> First...I have NEVER seen a MT (multi-track) 78 on a "Hit Parade" 
>> label...or
>> anything similar! This MAY be because I have found for the most part
>> Canadian
>> MT 78's (I have no way to acquire "junk" 78's in large lots from the US,
>> while
>> I have meanwhile acquired at least 40 such records here in
>> Canada!)...although
>> my preliminary "research" suggests that the Canadian 78's were pressed 
>> from
>> US masters (with one significant exception!).
>
> What's the one exception? I have a few Canadian multi-track 78s..one on 
> Alvina
> and two on Sapphire, both pressed by Quality (uncredited) and featuring
> Canadian artists like Denny Vaughn, Wally Koster and Joan Fairfax.
>
I was thinking of Sapphire; I have several of those records (I never tried 
to track
down the artists thereupon to see if they were "real?!")

Steven C. Barr 




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