[78-L] Decca 100 & 101

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Wed Sep 22 16:39:23 PDT 2010


Amendment..Brunswick's New York studios were still turning out custom 
recordings and radio transcriptions in the early 30s, but all commercial 
recording had gone over to ARC.

On 9/22/2010 7:33 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> My understanding is that Decca took over the old Brunswick facilities, which
> were no longer in use once ARC had absorbed the label. Earliest Decca matrix
> numbers are in fact a continuation of the Brunswick E 3xxxx series. The first
> pressings were too large for the juke boxes and had to be returned, so the
> story goes.
>
> dl
>
> On 9/22/2010 4:30 PM, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
>> Those early Deccas are an interesting lot. Does anyone know who pressed
>> them? The copies I've examined are pretty bad, worse than Decca product
>> issued even six months later.
>>
>> Jeff Sultanof
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Rockined1<rockined1 at aol.com>   wrote:
>>
>>> speaking of Deccas--I just picked up Decca SUNBURST 100&   101 by that Harry
>>> kid from Spokane. Looks like off to OBoy land tonight....
>>>
>>>
>>>
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