[78-L] Canadian SPILKA UKRAINSKOI MOLODI-SUM

[Steven C. Barr]

From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Arka was a big label for Ukrainian records in Canada. Very popular in the
> prairie provinces. Odd that RCA's T- masters don't indicate 33 or 78, just
> coarse groove. There are other prefixes including M (Montreal), PR 
> (Private
> Recording) and S (used on a lot of 50s LPs, not sure what its significance 
> is).
> On 12/2/2010 5:40 PM, Han Enderman wrote:
>> This explains the T prefix.
>> Same seller also has another Russian 78:
>> IRIDA&  PETRO CHERNIAK, 50s/60s, CAN. PRESS, ARKA T 19484
>> ebay # 310270142624.
>> The number of ethnic issues on ebay is increasing and now such labels 
>> become visible.
>> Han Enderman
>> Lotsa Hunkies in Canada (oops, not supposed to say that). T-41035 is a 
>> matrix
>> number for RCA in Toronto who'd have cut the master or copied it from an
>> outside source. The flip will probably be T-41034 or 41036. T-43084 is a 
>> disc
>> of commercials for BA Gasoline, dated November 1957.
>> dl
>>
In fact, Oshawa had a flourishing Ukranian minority (its best-known landmark 
is
an onion-domed church adjoining the 401!) who came to work in its then-
flourishing automobile industry after WWI. There was also a Ukranian record
label pressed and sold here; Horst W. gave me some examples thereof. My
computer data is no longer available AFAIK...!

Steven C. Barr