[78-L] Early Supraphon LPs

[Michael Biel]

On 8/16/2011 4:53 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> English Decca jumped on the lp (some of my old ones sound as if that's what
> happened to them) and you'll see a 1949 copyright date on the earliest Londons,
> and presumably on the domestic product as well. It was really only EMI that
> resisted, until 1952.
>
> dl
I seem to recall that Decca did not market their LPs domestically in the 
U.K. until late in 1950.  We could get the exact information from The 
Gramophone but the on-line archive is absolutely useless now since they 
fuzzed up the pages to make the ads utterly unreadable.

> On 8/16/2011 4:17 PM, Brian Bashford wrote:
>> Thanks David,
>> It's just that I was surprised that an Iron Curtain country, so soon after
>> the 2nd World War, would have caught up with the technology.

The Iron Curtain was rather porous at first, with even Austria swinging 
from one side to the other.  But Czechoslovakia was most prosperous of 
them all, and Supraphone had close ties with American Mercury and German 
Telefunken  (and U.S. Capitol) in the post-war 40s, and thus was ableto 
jump on the LP almost immediately.  Qualiton in Hungary was probably 
next and I have some early ones that might be 1951.  The Soviet Union 
was the slowest with not having their first microgroove releases until 
1953, and many of those were microgroove 78s (I have a lot of them!)

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>>   Not sure that
>> I've seen a UK issue microgroove LP from as early as 1950.
>>
>> Brian B.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Lennick
>>
>> Not too early at all..the WERM supplement lists Supraphon lps in 1951-2 (I
>> haven't checked the first supplement yet).
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 8/14/2011 3:40 PM, Brian Bashford wrote:
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>> I've just come into possession of 3 early Czech Supraphon 10" LPs. The
>>> catalogue numbers are DM 5022,  DM 5032 and  DM 5399. The first appears to
>>> be dated 1950 and the other 2 are 1951.  All have similar light green
>>> gatefold sleeves with plain white backs. The cardboard sleeves appear to
>>> be
>>> stitched together  along the top and bottom seams.
>>>
>>> My question is ... are these dates too early for Supraphon?  I'd been led
>>> to
>>> believe that they didn't start producing vinyl LPs until 1954.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Brian B.
>>