[78-L] Near You by Francis Craig

Sean Miller smille1 at nycap.rr.com
Thu Jul 22 20:12:06 PDT 2010


No idea, but on the subject of that record, I recently unearthed one on VINYL that plays like a dream.  It's actually not a bad record at all if you ask me, but who would?  :-)

Sean

On Jul 22, 2010, at 11:00 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:

> I recently purchased a copy of  Francis Craig and his Orchestra playing Near 
> You b/w Red Rose.
> 
> Big friggin' deal,  right...we've all seen about 82 zillion copies of the 78 
> rpm issue on Bullet,  right?
> 
> But this one is on....English Brunswick.  And it doesn't sound like any kind 
> of a dub,  either.  And it plays way better than any of the many copies of 
> the American issue which I've shuffled through over the years.
> 
> Can anyone explain how an American record from a small company would end up 
> on a major English label like that?  Maybe it happened more often than I'm 
> aware of,  but it seemed pretty odd to me.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks from
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
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