[78-L] King Records Japan no, Korea?

[Malcolm Rockwell]

King Records is Japanese, but like many other labels (in the US anyway) 
they recorded more than just Japanese material. There is/was a huge 
market for 78s in China and Korea. Seems to be a post WW2 label. King 
also issued Capitol records in Japan. The Japanese Capitol releases were 
US produced material only.
My files show some 3 dozen steel guitar & Hawaiian sides, as well, on 
both labels.
Mal

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On 5/10/2011 5:48 AM, Francesco Martinelli wrote:
> update and clarification
> the label seems to be in korean and the african american singer I
> mentioned was only to identify the song, the singer and orchestra are
> also - so says my Japanese friend - Korean!!!
> (It's in a Brunswick Southamerican sleeve...)
> F
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> Il 10/05/2011 17.24, Rockined1 ha scritto:
>> Wow   - An Italian finding a Japanese record of a Turkish song by an African American singer  --talk aobut world music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Francesco Martinelli<francesco.martinelli at gmail.com>
>> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Tue, May 10, 2011 9:58 am
>> Subject: [78-L] King Records Japan
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>> I do not know if there's anybody familiar with this label. I just found
>>    78 rpm of Uskudara, the Turkish song made famous abroad by Eartha
>> itt, in Japanese, on King 5781. Unfortunately I cannot read the label,
>> nd I cannot find any information on the net.
>> ny help?
>> -
>> rancesco Martinelli
>> ungarno Mediceo 10
>> 6127 PISA ITALY