[78-L] Near You by Francis Craig

[David Lennick]

The Decca is definitely a remake, and shorter in length (2:36 per label). Recorded in Nashville, March 3/52,. Nashville master NA 2670, renumbered in regular series as 82407, not in Decca Books volume 3 artist listing..took me a while to find it.

 

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> From: bowiebks at isomedia.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:30:57 -0700
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Near You by Francis Craig
> 
> Sean, I think it's an excellent record...who cares if it's rare or 
> whatever?
> 
> I've played it again (my English Brunswick) and it certainly sounds 
> note-for-note like the Bullet issue...but I haven't heard the Decca. Is it 
> possible that Decca scored the masters from Bullet and just reissued them 
> and then on Dot?
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sean Miller" <smille1 at nycap.rr.com>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 8:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Near You by Francis Craig
> 
> 
> > 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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