[78-L] Victor's Chicago recordings

[Michael Shoshani]

On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 15:35 -0400, Bryan Wright wrote:
> Sutton and Nauck, in "American Record Labels and Companies"  
> suggest that as late as 1924, Victor was still sending its portable  
> field unit when making recordings in Chicago. Considering that  
> Brunswick had a Chicago studio as early as 1921, I'm surprised that  
> Victor would still be relying on a field unit for recordings there  
> three years later.

Well, that's *kind of* apples and oranges. Brunswick had studios in
Chicago probably because the main offices of the
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company were in Chicago, but if I recall
correctly, the "main studios" were in New York, where the world's
concentration of talent still lived.

MS