[78-L] British Jazz Albums of 1936

[Royal Pemberton]

I think, sold for scrap and melted down, more or less the same fate as
befell the Paramount matrices.

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> > Steven C. Barr wrote:
> >> Interesting! The 90xxx m#'s are Decca numbers, from their Chicago
> >> series, from mid-1936 per my DG...!
> > Good catch!!  In his book -- but not in the posting -- Geoffrey notes
> > that these two British Brunswick albums were produced from dubbed
> > Gennett masters supplied by Jack Kapp of U.S. Decca.  So it seems the
> > dubs were made in Chicago!  This might partially answer the question
> > that he asks in "Jazz By Mail" while thinking the dubs were made in
> > England:
> > "Jack Kapp of American Decca supplied the Gennett shellac discs from
> > which these Brunswick records were re-recorded in England.  What has
> > confused collectors over the years is why the original Gennett masters
> > or stampers, if they were available and in usable condition, weren't
> > used.  The answer might be that none or not enough of the original
> > masters had survived and that the pressing machines of 1936 could not
> > accommodate stampers made in the mid-20s."
> >
> Gennett was long since defunct by 1936; I have no idea whether any of
> their "metal parts" would have even existed by then? In fact, what became
> of Gennett's original metals after the firm ended?
>
> Steven C. Barr
>
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