[78-L] Canadian SPILKA UKRAINSKOI MOLODI-SUM

[David Lennick]

On 12/2/2010 6:16 PM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
> 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).
>>>
> 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
>

Could have been by the Matys Brothers (of "Who Stole the Keeshka" fame) on 
ALTO. I have one 78 by them with a soloist (Oshawa native) whose name escapes 
me at the moment.

dl