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

[Michael Biel]

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> 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

It looks similar to what was on some MGM pressings in the 60s, but with
a line thru it.  

I think this is a late issue.  I don't see it in the Clef Music Shop
listing of what they had for sale in the March 1952 Record Changer. 
They show 5 volumes of Louis on 10-inch and a Vol 7 on 12-inch, and also
a Bechet 10-inch volume.  Catalog numbers are not there (but I think are
in Geoffrey's books), so this might have been pressed after the RCA link
was exposed.  I really don't remember if I have any Jolly Roger LPs -- I
am very impressed by the cover of this one.  Surely someone here has
some to check them out for us. 

Dante Bolltino was only 23 when this happened!!  I'm reading some book
excerpts that discuss this, and one has a later interview with him.  

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
>
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