[78-L] Near You by Francis Craig

[David Lennick]

And there you have it..it IS the original Bullet recording. The later US Decca remake was backed with something called Stars And Stripes Medley.

 

dl


 
> From: bowiebks at isomedia.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:45:49 -0700
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Near You by Francis Craig
> 
> 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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