[78-L] wooden spine, was Angel records in Canada

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I share these memories. What was the purpose of the wooden rod? Did it 
actually do something for protecting the record? I don't see how. Make 
it easier to pull the thing off the shelf?

A litle of topic, oops.....

joe salerno


DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> I well remember the introduction of Angel LPs in Canada.  My first experience 
> was in 1954 or 1955 with a recording of Peer Gynt conducted by Beecham.  These 
> records, with the wooden rod in the spine, were pressed in England and sounded 
> magnificent.  I cannot think of any example of an Angel LP which wasn't the 
> equivalent of an HMV recording in England.  The story we got at the time was 
> that HMV had to use the Angel trade mark in America because they had severed 
> relations with Victor who owned the Nipper trademark.  Sometimes I saw an 
> English HMV labeled recording with an Odeon sticker over the HMV trademark.