[78-L] Near You by Francis Craig

[Cary Ginell]

Check out the catalog of English London records some time. You will see links to all kinds of U.S. labels: Sun, Mercury, Liberty...they set up distribution deals with lots of U.S. companies. Apparently Bullet did the same thing. Martin Hawkins' book "A Shot in the Dark: Making Records in Nashville, 1945-1955" goes into great detail about the success of "Near You" and Jim Bulleit's (pronounced Buh-LAY) stewardship of the Bullet label as well as other, lesser-known Nashville labels, both country and R&B, although I couldn't find anything about English Brunswick in the book.

 

Cary Ginell
 
> From: bowiebks at isomedia.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:00:08 -0700
> Subject: [78-L] Near You by Francis Craig
> 
> 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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