[78-L] Odd CBS Domestic/Foreign Release

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sun Jun 26 09:56:31 PDT 2011


By any chance is it a Canadian pressing? Canadian Columbia (Sparton) issued 
many French records for the Quebec market but most of them were dubbed in New 
York. If you were lucky, the dubs were from master tapes, but quite often they 
were from shellac pressings and full of wow.

dl

On 6/26/2011 12:53 PM, Bertrand CHAUMELLE wrote:
> The French original 78 was released on Philips in February 1952:
> N72051H Histoire de roses/ Tire l'aiguille
> Recorded in Paris
>
> BC
> Le 26 juin 11, à 06:25, David Lewis a écrit :
>
>>
>> Columbia 10101
>>
>> Patachou avec Leo Clarens et son Orchestre
>> (CO-48683) Histoire de Roses
>> (CO-48684) Tire L'Aiguille (Lai, Lai, Lai)
>>
>> This is a *U.S.* pressing and the matrix indicates recording in NYC in
>> late 1952. Patachou had just begun her recording career. I am not
>> familiar with a Columbia 10100 series of any kind, letter suffix or
>> no.
>>
>>
>>>>>
>> Well, this appears to be an "original Columbia recording" made with a
>> Philips artist in 1952. I would assume that it would have been
>> distributed overseas.
>>
>> Uncle Dave Lewis
>> uncledavelewis at hotmail.com 		 	


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