[78-L] Reissue 78's...

[David Lennick]

The label looks like Columbia but the run-out grooves don't. Not RCA either. 
The locked groove is too far from the label to be either. That's an odd little 
logo below the label, an eighth note.

dl

On 11/14/2010 2:22 PM, Michael Biel wrote:

>
> I might add that in the 1952 Columbia/Armstrong suit against Jolly Roger
> it was noted that they realized that their sound recordings were not
> copyrighted -- and the out of court settlement continued the puzzle.
> The Columbia suit was based on "invasion of property rights," and
> Armstrong based his on an "invasion of privacy" meaning using his name
> without permission.  One of the Jolly Roger albums is on French Ebay and
> there is a reprint of the Time magazine article right after the suit in
> the listing.
>
> http://cgi.ebay.fr/Louis-Armstrong-Sidney-Bechet-Jolly-Roger-5029-VG-/230516390725
>
>
> Does anybody have any Jolly Roger LPs handy?  Looking at the label photo
> in the listing, it looks very Columbia-like, not RCA Custom.  It came as
> a big surprise that they were RCA Custom pressings when it was exposed
> in The Record Changer, yet I would think it should have been obvious.
> Did these pressings have the markings you would expect of an RCA custom
> pressing???
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>