[78-L] Mercury Made in Czechoslovakia [fwd]

[Mike Harkin]

After the War, Supraphon issued a slew of Telefunken material - Hindemith's
BPO/Mathis der Maler comes most immediately to mind - which I had on a
British Decca set back in my active daze....  Not bad, but I bet the 30's/
40's sounded better!

Mike in Plovdiv

  

--- On Tue, 8/31/10, goldenbough at arcor.de <goldenbough at arcor.de> wrote:

> From: goldenbough at arcor.de <goldenbough at arcor.de>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Mercury Made in Czechoslovakia
> To: 78-l at 78online.com
> Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 11:45 PM
> 
> The Gramophone Company's pressing plant at the industrial
> town of Aussig 
> became, after WWII, the Supraphon pressing plant in what
> was now called 
> Ustí nad Labem. 
> 
> Supraphon was well know for custom pressings. They pressed
> 78s for labels 
> in Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, Albania, Pakistan - at least these
> are the countries 
> that I have 78s from which say 'Made in
> Czechoslovakia'.  
> 
> I cannot imagine that such Mercury records 'Made in
> Czechoslovakia' were 
> ever sold anywhere else than in North America, because, for
> example, Mercury 
> pressings with Bulgarian music always turn up in the USA,
> but never in Bulgaria.  
> 
> Czechoslovakian records exported to the USA in
> 1962:   $26,000, says 
> Billboard. 
> 
> Which company would have distributed, within Western
> Europe, some Keynote 
> material pressed on Mercury-labelled records?  In
> Western Europe Mercury 
> was generally represented by Philips International.
> Exceptions were Austria, 
> where Mercury material appeared on Austroton, Greece
> (Helladisc), Italy 
> (Phonogram), Sweden (Sonora), maybe others. 
> 
> Benno
> 
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