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

[David Lennick]

Everest did the same thing. If you like filing albums wrong side out, buy 
Angels and Everests!

dl

On 8/28/2010 10:48 PM, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.
>