[78-L] Near You by Francis Craig

[Taylor Bowie]

Mike,

Oh,  so sorry about not including master and label numbers "automatically." 
The only thing I'm able to do "automatically" is breathe!

In the dead wax/run off/ I see "Bu-1001-A" at 6:00...a backwards "4" at 
9:00...what looks like "NP LT" at 12:00...and "BK" at 3:00.

The above is on the "Red Rose" side,  which is Brunswick 03876-A

"Near You" has the same markings,  except it's noted as "Bu-1001-B."  I have 
read that the company thought that "Red Rose" had a better chance of 
becoming a hit.

BU stands for Bullet...or maybe for Bunswick.  Haha just kidding.

Glad Mike mentioned the Steele record of They All Recorded To Beat the 
Ban...very entertaining side.


Taylor




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Near You by Francis Craig


> To answer the original question about how a record from a small American
> label ends up on British Brunswick and did it happen often, while the
> answer might be that it is the later American Decca recording (Taylor
> didn't supply us with matrix numbers or the record number--why don't
> people include discographic info automatically?)  American masters
> appeared on British labels all the time, even Grey Gull.  If it is the
> Bullet masters on the Brunswick, remember that this was a BIG HIT!!!!!
> In Australia I found a pressing on an Australian label of the Damon
> record "The All Recorded to Beat the Ban"/"My Happiness" by Jon and
> Sondra Steele.  (The latter was the song Elvis recorded on a lacquer at
> Sun Studios supposedly as a gift to his mother.)
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
> Sean Miller wrote:
>> And now that dl's reply showed first, I can say that mine is a Dot 
>> repress on DJ vinyl.  Just checked it.
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>> On Jul 22, 2010, at 11:12 PM, Sean Miller wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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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