[78-L] Atlanta

[Francesco Martinelli]

Thanks to Benno and Rainer for adding information.
The friends at Todo Tango - who have published two articles on the label 
- never heard of the group, and from the label itself - an Italian 
composer, associate of Puccini, and in Italian - I think it might have 
been made for the Italian market.

still looking around

francesco


Il 25/05/2011 9.05, Birgit Lotz Verlag ha scritto:
> 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
>
>> essage: 2
>> 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)
>> To: 78-l at 78online.com
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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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