[78-L] Canadian SPILKA UKRAINSKOI MOLODI-SUM

[David Lennick]

On 12/2/2010 8:20 PM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> 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.
>>
> Dunno...you'd have to ask Horst, who DOESN'T communicate by e-mail...?!
>
> Steven C. Barr

Mike Kupnycki was the guy, with the Matys Brothers, on the Alto label. Alto was 
an Oshawa music store in the 50s (it was still around in the 70s but I'm pretty 
sure it's gone now).

dl