[78-L] MGM-Supertone connection?

[Michael Biel]

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr." <citroenid19 at sbcglobal.net>
>   
>> I am searching on an MGM disk on Ebay with an MGM label, performed by
>> Teddy Joyce and the Capitolians (Capitol Theater Orchestra, Broadway
>> NY). The number, 1076P, coincides with a Supertone by Teddy Joyce and
>> the Penn State Rec.(?) Is this that same recording and is there a
>> connection between these 2 labels?
>> I look in MGM in the online database and those 4 digit numbers don't
>> show up.
>>
>>     
> The 1###-P series was used by Columbia for any/all "private label" issues
> of Harmony-derived sides. These "M-G-M" discs were pressed for promotional/
> background play in M-G-M theatres of the twenties;

Not played in the theaters, SOLD in the theaters, Lowe Theaters.  Come 
to think of it, was the Capitol Theater a Lowes theater?   And since 
their sides were also on Publix labeled records, was it a Paramount 
Publix theater????  Roxy managed it until he built the Roxy and then 
managed the Radio City Music Hall.  There were two of these 
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer records in my father's collection, and he bought 
them in a theater.  He would have been 21 or 22 at the time.  These 
records sometimes had mixed electrical and acoustical sides. 

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 

>  they are NOT related
> to the MGM label of the forties/fifties (which is most likely the one listed
> in Ty's online database). In fact, if Harmony is included in Ty's database,
> the sides could be found there...?!
>
> Steven C. Barr
>  
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