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

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sun Jul 25 18:52:24 PDT 2010


Might you be thinking of Mercury, which DID set up a Canadian operation in 1949 (and which became part of Quality the following year)?

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> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:42:55 -0400
> Subject: Re: [78-L] London [was Near You by Francis Craig]
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> From: stevenc at interlinks.net> > 
> > Dot was also one of the very few US "indie" labels to set up a Canadian
> > branch operation...so one can encounter Canadian Dot records (although
> > they probably never recorded up here?!)
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> > Steven C. Barr 
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> Hah? Dot was pressed by Quality almost as soon as it put product on the market, till the day it became Paramount and well beyond. Even Randy Wood's next label, Ranwood, stayed with Quality. Dot was certainly one of the first indie labels to begin to show its own logo, but that was covered by my point about indie labels having enough hit records to warrant being identified under their own names. There was certainly no "Dot Records of Canada".
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