[78-L] Collectors Record Shop NY

[David Lennick]

ARLD lists February 1946 for CRS (Collectors Record Shop) at 825 Seventh 
Avenue, and then CRS Historical Records at 2060 First Avenue (NY) in January 
1949. An early CRS issue was the Lillian Russell disc which Columbia dubbed and 
pressed in 1943 (CRS 8). Yellow label. All others I've seen have blue labels 
and some are vinyl, like the Rudolph Valentino which starts after the spoken 
reference to Brunswick. See Billboard article from July 1946:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=HhoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT34&lpg=PT34&dq=%22jack+l.caidin%22&source=bl&ots=GX26cnZmtd&sig=skL12v-RA2JpAhlMtyVYv6-hHko&hl=en&ei=LagfTZrNHsL_nAer5NzYDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22jack%20l.caidin%22&f=false

A Toscanini rehearsal with the maestro yelling is on one disc, and an 
incredibly unfunny disc by someone who must have been Jack L. Caidin's brother 
in law or something is another (so bad I got rid of it fast). I have a few LPs 
issued by Caidin in the fifties as well.

dl

On 1/1/2011 3:49 PM, Thomas Stern wrote:
> Noticed an item on the auction website issued by
> COLLECTORS RECORD SHOP  825 Seventh Ave., New York 19, N.Y.
>
> [Release No.6  Tu Non Mi Vuoi Piu Bene/Hugenots Qui Sotto Il Ciel - Caruso, from cylinders, label states "about 1899 to 1900"]
>
> I would appreciate some background information about this store and label,
> the extent of their reissues (boots, or licensed, how many issues, etc.),
> ownership, and when were they active???
>
> Thanks!
> Happy New Year, Thomas.