[78-L] Hollywood Bowl recordings

[Steven C. Barr]

From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
>>> I made special mention of the [1928 Mac] Hollywood Bowl recordings, 
>>> which were quite
>>> unusual for the time. They were the first outdoor recordings Victor had 
>>> made,
>>> and special precautions had to be taken so as not to get any extraneous 
>>> sounds
>>> on the recordings.   Cary Ginell
> On 9/27/2010 1:18 AM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>> Not exactly, Victor recorded the Victory Tower, (later the Peace Tower),
>> carillon in Ottawa on July 1, 1927, and, of course, studios were fairly 
>> small in
>> those days so they recorded it outdoors.   db
> Do we consider Canadian Victor as the same company as VTMC or RCA Victor
> in the U.S.?  VTMC, of course, had released recordings taken off the air
> of the Lindbergh Arrival in Washington DC, and the speeches at the
> Washington Monument which were made several months before the Ottawa
> Canadian National Exhibition recordings.  Of course the CNE recordings
> released by Canadian Victor were recordings they made, while the Compo
> recordings of the event were broadcast recordings.
>
There ISN'T a simple answer to this question...! Herbert Berliner, the son 
of
Emile, set up a company (actually, he inhertited a company foundeed by
his father...?!) In Canada; from 1918 onward Herbert recorded MANY sides
for his Canadian-based 216### series in his Montreal studios. Around
late1922, the US-based VTMC elected to take over Herbert's supposed
"branch operation," on the basis that he was issuing more of his own
recordings than the US sides he was supposed to be issuing...?!

In the meantime, Herbert's "Compo Company" side operation had
started to issue its own electric sides (Compo started recording
electrically as an experiment in mid-1924, and issued its first
electrical recordings in late January 1925...!). As a result, VTM(C)
started issuing electric "VE" records from "the get-go"...and even
issued a promo disc which paired an acoustic Jack Shilkret side
w2ith the same titile title, supposedly recorded acoustically by
the same band...!

Steven C. Barr