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

[David Lennick]

NICE cover! As if David Stone Martin did one for Columbia. The label also 
reminds me of Jazz Man (same silver on green).

dl

On 11/14/2010 2:49 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> 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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