[78-L] Jimmie Rodgers Museum

[David Lennick]

" Since our issues
of US recordings were usually pressed using imported (from USA)
stampers, I assume these were visual duplicates of their US counterparts?!"

 

Actually Canadian Victors were dubbed, beginning sometime before the ban..probably because of wartime restrictions on shipping heavy objects such as stampers. The dubs were often pathetically bad, full of wow, clipped starts, dropouts (check out the Canadian issues of Vaughn Monroe's "When The Lights Go On" and Alvino Rey's "Deep In The Heart of Texas". Oddly enough, where we had the original parts from older recordings, we often kept using them long after the US had dubbed replacements on Artie Shaw and Fats Waller sides as well as most of the records in the HJ series. Red Seals may also have been pressed from imported parts and not dubbed.

 

dl
 
> From: stevenc at interlinks.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 22:35:57 -0400
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Jimmie Rodgers Museum
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Royal Pemberton" <ampex354 at gmail.com>
> > I've not seen any of these Canadian records....so if I understand 
> > correctly,
> > until 1938 these records still looked rather like US Victors of the late
> > 1920s as regards where the eccentric grooves were placed at the end of 
> > each
> > side? And what about the VE symbol....was it still the earlier oval, had 
> > it
> > changed to the diamond, or was there no symbol? (And if they ever used 
> > the
> > diamond, about when did they start doing so? The same as in the US?)
> >
> T can only give a partial reply, without digging out and checking the actual
> 78's (which I assume I still own...?!)!
> 
> Canadian Bluebird discs used the same labels, in the same sequence (but
> NOT changed at the same time!). The classic "buff" BB label was used into
> the late thirties (the background was more yellow than buff!)...so that
> there exist Glenn Miller BB's on that label. Canadian Victors carried the
> "His Master's Voice" sub-credit until sometime in 1947. Since our issues
> of US recordings were usually pressed using imported (from USA)
> stampers, I assume these were visual duplicates of their US counterparts?!
> 
> However, RCA(C) promoted electrical recordings from their initial
> introduction; Compo was already issuing (and promoting) its own
> electrically-recorded records in late January 1925. As a result, there
> exists (and I own) a Canadian promotional (HMV-)Victor which
> pairs the regular-issue side by Jack Shilkret (acoustic) with an
> electric version of (supposedly) the same performance!
> 
> Canadian HMV-Victors were promoted as "VE-Process" until
> the US parent company started promoting "Orthophonic" electric
> records.
> 
> BTW, Canadian BB's used their version of the "buff" label through
> the low B-10400's; then used the "staff" label for a few months,
> followed by the usual dark-blue label. The very last Canadian
> Bluebirds appeared on the RCA Victor label...but with "B-" catalog
> numbers, and a sub-credit at the top of their labels, "Bluebird
> Series"...!
> 
> Steven C. Barr 
> 
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