[78-L] interesting pasteover label

[David Lennick]

On 1/1/2011 5:14 PM, agp wrote:
> At 22:05 01/01/2011, dl wrote:
>> HMV covered the top half of the Victor label on discs it imported.
>> No idea why,
>> since both companies still had the use of the logo.
>>
>> dl
>
> Actually this sort of stuff went on well into the 80s. I recall being
> in the HMV shop in Oxford Street in London and seeing US Columbia
> singles with the name Columbia blanked out with a black sticker,
> effectively making it a "no label" record -- or if you will, the
> lasted hot release on "Black Sticker Records" .
>
> T
>

In these cases, it was because the companies DIDN'T have the rights to the 
trademarks in question. All sorts of EMI LPs were imported to North America 
with ODEON stickovers in the 60s and 70s.

dl