[78-L] Jimmie Rodgers Museum

[Steven C. Barr]

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From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> " 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.
>
US RCA essentially dubbed all (or nearly?!) of their extant recordings in 
the
1940's...apparently so that the run-in/out grooves could be added to make
them "changer-friendly"...! The Canadian equivalents were, in many cases,
NOT dubbed...! Obviously. I know SFA about Canadian pressings of
classical discs...?!

Steven C. Barr