[78-L] Angel records in Canada

[DAVID BURNHAM]

Bertrand CHAUMELLE pointed out that:
"db said that all Angel albums came from Britain"

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I'm sorry if what I said looked like that, that's certainly not what I meant.  I 
have lots of Canadian pressed Angels and they were generally dreadful - not only 
were the surfaces inferior but they were obviously pressed from different tapes. 
 The most obvious example of this in my experience was Sargent's Stereo Messiah. 
 The contrast between the sound of the Canadian Angel and the World Record Club 
release from England was like night and day.  The WRC version was rich and clear 
and quite stunning.  The Canadian version was harsh, lacking in bass and when 
compared in an A - B situation with the WRC, sounds like poor AM radio, (albeit 
in Stereo).  Unfortunately, the CD release of this recording sounds a lot like 
the Canadian version.  Another example is Frubeck de Burgos' recording of 
"Elijah".  When I heard the English pressed yellow labeled Angel version it was 
a breathtakingly rich sound compared to the Canadian version I was used to.  At 
this point I started importing English versions of every important Angel LP I 
had.

(Digression, I only type "Lp" when I'm referring to a Columbia record.)

I know there were early Angels recorded in the US, (Previn's Gershwin album for 
example), and other countries.  One of my earliest Angel records was from France 
by the band of La Garde Republicaine, (although it was pressed in England),

db