[78-L] Shootin' for Barr (was "Huh?")^

[Taylor Bowie]

Ray and eugene,

I was quoting those names off of a web site which lists some 750 artists who 
at one time or another were signed to Columbia.  Perhaps they were signed 
but dropped,  or perhaps the list is in error.

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Kilcoyne" <kil at roadrunner.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 5:21 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Shootin' for Barr (was "Huh?")^


> And
> Fleetwood Mac - Reprise
>
> RayK
>
> From: "eugene hayhoe"
>
> Animals - MGM
> Kiss - Casablanca
>
> --- On Sun, 8/29/10, Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com>
> Subject: [78-L] Shootin' for Barr (was "Huh?")
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Sunday, August 29, 2010, 2:15 AM
>
>
>
> To go one further on another of Mr. Barr's blanket statements of
> questionable validity, Decca didn't do too badly during the "rock era"
> (assuming we're just talking about the time until Elvis went into the 
> army).
> They had a guy by the name of Bill Haley who sold quite a few records. 
> Buddy
> Holly was on Decca and then the label's subsidiaries, Coral and Brunswick.
> Johnny Burnette's Rock 'n' Roll Trio, which also recorded for Coral, was 
> one
> of the wildest, most incendiary groups on the planet. Then there was
> Capitol, which boasted acts like Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps, Tommy 
> Sands,
> and Sonny James. Columbia also had Carl Perkins after his Sun career was
> finished. In fact, the rock 'n' roll craze was so great, it encompassed 
> just
> about every label that issued popular music. They wouldn't record it if 
> they
> didn't think it would sell. Rarely did rock 'n' roll records get to the 
> top
> of the charts, but check out all of the rockabilly records done by RCA,
> Decca,
> Columbia, and Capitol
> (arguably, the four "majors") during the late '50s and you will see that 
> RCA
> was not the only game in town. Maybe Mr. Barr can get his head out of
> Whitburn and find out what really was going on in the record industry 
> during
> this time.
>
> Steve, stick to Grey Gull.
>
> Cary Ginell...?!
>
>> From: bowiebks at isomedia.com
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:12:04 -0700
>> Subject: [78-L] Huh?
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
>> > From c.1953 on, US Columbias were issued up here on the PHILIPS label;
>> > however
>> > this was around the same time that Columbia's issues no longer were of
>> > any
>> > interest to the young folks who kept the record industry 
>> > prosperous...?!
>> > The
>> > only
>> > "major label" who prospered during the "rock'n'roll" era was RCA
>> > Victor...and
>> > that was because they wound up with Elvis Presley under contract thanks
>> > to
>> > his manager...?!
>> >
>> > Steven C. Barr
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure what Steven's concept of the "rock 'n' roll" era is, but
>> unless he thinks it ended around 1960, his statement about Columbia
>> records
>> is wildly inaccurate.
>>
>> In the 60s and 70s and later, Columbia signed many major rock bands and
>> artists, including The Animals, The Byrds, Big Brother, Mott the Hoople,
>> Blood Sweat and Tears, Chicago, Iron Maiden, Santana, Kiss, Fleetwood
>> Mac, and a guy named Bruce Springsteen.
>>
>> Sort of off-topic, but Steven's statement either needed clarification or
>> refutation!
>>
>> Taylor
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> 78-L mailing list
>> 78-L at klickitat.78online.com
>> http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l
>
> _______________________________________________
> 78-L mailing list
> 78-L at klickitat.78online.com
> http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> 78-L mailing list
> 78-L at klickitat.78online.com
> http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l
>
> _______________________________________________
> 78-L mailing list
> 78-L at klickitat.78online.com
> http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l
>