[78-L] London [was Near You by Francis Craig]

[Steven C. Barr]

From: "Royal Pemberton" <ampex354 at gmail.com>
> On Teter I've seen both....'Johnson rag'/'Back of the yards' on a UK
> pressing, 'Kansas City kitty'/'Just a little nightcap' a US.  My Vera Lynn
> 'Auf wiedersehn, sweetheart' is a US pressing (and an RCA job).
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:36 PM, David Lennick 
> <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
>> It gets more confusing when London begins to do American recording 
>> (Teresa
>> Brewer, Jack Teter) and picks up distressed labels (Gene Austin, The
>> Harmonicats from Universal) and issues them with US numbers but MOST of 
>> them
>> are pressed in England, although I don't think I've ever seen the Jack 
>> Teter
>> on anything but a US pressing. In Canada, Max Zimmerman found himself 
>> with a
>> lot of orders for The Wedding Samba by Edmundo Ros and began having it
>> pressed locally by Sparton. The Canadian operation began to do quite a 
>> lot
>> of its own recording (Jim Magill, Aznavour & Roche, Ozzie Williams'
>> Orchestra) circa 1950 and these were all pressed here.
>>
And from c. 1000 (cat#) on, many Canadian Londons are visibly Compo
pressings...!

Steven C. Barr