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

[David Lennick]

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- 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 

Yup, they're all prominent CBC singers from the early 50s like Wally, Ed 
McCurdy, Eliot van Evera etc. In the "who the hell" category, there are also 
Canadian multi-track records on a label called Bijou or Disques Bijou, similar 
to Cameo with light blue labels and featuring French language versions of 
current early 50s hits..I have no idea who performs on these.

dl