[78-L] Atlanta

Wed May 25 00:05:50 PDT 2011

Actually it was Dacapo, not Beka, who had the arrangement with Atlanta.
Hugo Stroetbaum
http://www.recordingpioneers.com/rs_companies.html
works on the name of the engineer.
The Atlanta trademark was granted to Dacapo in 1912, and renewed in 
1913. Later that year the company went into financial difficulty and was 
acquired by Lindstroem, who renewed the trademark in 1915.
Best
Rainer

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> Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 21:58:23 +0200 (CEST)
> From: "Benno Häupl" <goldenbough at arcor.de>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Discos Atlanta (Buenos Aires)
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> Gentile Francesco,
> Atlanta was only one of many labels that BEKA issued for overseas sales.
> Beka had separate labels for material sold in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil etc.  
> I always heard the story in a different way. Supposedly Beka went ahead
> systematically to find trade partners in South America who would record and
> market the records on their 'national Beka subsidiary label'.  
>
> I do not think that it will be possible to find out who the recording engineer
> was in Argentina (who would probably also record in other South American
> countries), because all the files and archives on Ritterstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg
> were destroyed in the February 3 and 26, 1945, bombings. Ritterstasse was the center
> for record companies (I have identified about 150 of them on, or right off, Ritterstrasse).
> See these links:
> http://www.kreuzbergmuseum.de/index.php?id=115
> http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/2000/0203/lokales/0002/index.html
>
> Unless we can find an article in the 1913-1917 issues of the German trade magazines
> 'Die Sprechmaschine' or 'Phonographische Zeitschrift', we will never know who
> the engineer was who went to South America with this Beka recording equipment.  
>
> Tip of the hat!
> Benno
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