[78-L] British Jazz Albums of 1936

[David Lennick]

My copy of Tar Paper Stomp on Decca is a master pressing. Nice one, too.

dl
 
> From: stevenc at interlinks.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 22:43:40 -0400
> Subject: Re: [78-L] British Jazz Albums of 1936
> 
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> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> > Royal Pemberton wrote:
> >> 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:
> >>> 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
> > Gennett was still in business in 1936. They were still active in sound
> > effects records, were involved in the election campaign, and were making
> > deals with Decca, and later Joe Davis, and eventually some others
> > because they had a schellac allotment during the war.
> >
> Okeh...that much I KNEW! However, they must have owned "metal
> parts" for their many noted recordings (i.e. "Zulus Ball")...so what
> happened to those...?! The re-issues, insofar as they have existed,
> all seem to be dubs...presumably from existing Gennett 78's...?!
> 
> Steven C. Barr 
> 
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