[78-L] Maple Leaf label

[Han Enderman]

I have 3 main types of Maple Leaf label images.
I assume these are by the same company.

1 - yellow Apollo Maple Leaf stroboscope label. No address.
Available images are 10-101/103/104, by Valaida Snow, Maxine Sullivan, The Five Larks.
What is 10-102? Are there other issues?

2 - orange Maple Leaf label. Montreal.
ML-1003 is Sarah Vaughn with Gillespie.
ML-16002 is (Milton Lewis? - near unreadable): The Jew Sings.
Other issues/series?

3 - grey King Maple Leaf label. Montreal. With King logo.
Some images almost yellowish-brownish, but poss. due to photographic color change (?).
Until now I saved these as King(C), but poss Maple Leaf is the better label name.
Issues in 25/26-100 series, resp. country/blues. Rather large series it seems.

4 - greyish DeLuxe Maple Leaf label. Montreal. With DeLuxe logo.
Similar to the King issues, but now in a 30-100 series.
Only 30-101 Ruth Walli known.
Later DeLuxe(C) issues in 300 series are pressed by Quality.
Available images are in range 301-310. Is the whole series known?

I am surprised by the rather large number of blues/black jazz issues.
Were these intended for a black Canadian market?

Do not hesitate to answer all questions. Thanks.
Han Enderman




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>>> Monogram even had rights to Tempo for a while, long enough to issue 
Brother Bones "Sweet Georgia Brown" before that label went over to 
Gordon V. Thompson's Gavotte label.
Maple Leaf is another Canadian label which issued US independent labels like DeLuxe and King 
and which seems to have vanished around the late fifties.
dl
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Monogram is listed in Toronto city directories which are available at the Toronto
reference library; as well, Ross B published (albeit privately) a book on Max Boag,
who was connected with Tip Top and Mercury(C). 
Also, there WAS a Maple Leaf label (late forties IIRC); I have a couple of those.
They seem to have been the first to issue King and DeLuxe...
they lost this connection before Federal appeared.
Steven C. Barr 
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