[78-L] HMV's with RCA stickers

[David Lennick]

Budget labels in general disappeared after WWII..Decca's 35 cent label, 
Bluebird and OKeh were all terminated, while Capitol and Decca moved their 
fifty-cent artists up to the 75-cent labels (or were they up to 85 or 89 cents 
by then?).

dl

Matthew Duncan wrote:
> 100% tax occurred during the late part of WWII and for a while afterwards with 66% tax for much of the 40s.
>  
> This didn't stop people buying records in Britain in the 40s but sales did fall and judging by the companies folding in this period (Rex in 1948 and Regal Zonophone in 1949) it obviously had a lot of impact.
>  
> Matthew Duncan
> UK.
> 
> --- On Fri, 13/11/09, Mike Harkin <harkinmike at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> 
> From: Mike Harkin <harkinmike at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [78-L] HMV's with RCA stickers
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Friday, 13 November, 2009, 13:57
> 
> 
> Probably to show they were for export, otherwise they were liable to purchase tax, which was/is pretty horendous; not sure it ever reached 100%
> but Julian and Earl will probably know, and in any case it came bloody close!
> 
> Mike inPlovdiv{
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