[78-L] Discos Atlanta (Buenos Aires)

[Iñigo Cubillo]

Benno, Francesco... and hello to all others!

This must have been a common german practice. I own several Homokords 
(german pressed, 1908-1914). Some were issued for Spain as Homokord, and for 
other European countries as well. Some are labelled Homophon Company instead 
(pressing is also german made, pretty much the same). And curiously, I own 
one issued for Argentina, same pressing characteristics, typical german, but 
it is labelled A. CABEZAS (and a Buenos Aires adress below) instead of 
Homokord.

Also there's the well-known example of Jumbo Records (german) pressed for 
Argentina as ERA GRAND and the same pressing type.

Glad to talk to you again,

Iñigo Cubillo
from Madrid, Spain



-----Mensaje original----- 
From: Benno Häupl
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 9:58 PM
To: 78-l at 78online.com
Subject: Re: [78-L] Discos Atlanta (Buenos Aires)

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