[78-L] Skokiaan was: London -- Made in England?

[Michael Biel]

On 8/20/2011 12:17 AM, David Lennick wrote:
> I love that IN THE MOOD. The language is Ndebele, or so I'm told. This, by the
> way, is the record that proves conclusively that jazz didn't come from Africa.

Here it is on a Decca 45.  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI6VqzdelLA&feature=related
>
> As I noted, Canadian pressings are from Gallotone matrices. I always wondered
> why they looked odd..and I wonder if they were using tape or still direct to
> disc in that part of the world?  dl

 From the label on this Gallotone copy, they  were pressed in England, 
not South Africa. Perhaps the same masters??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxnXcBBdUBU&NR=1

Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com
>
> On 8/20/2011 12:12 AM, Michael Biel wrote:
>> On 8/19/2011 7:12 PM, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
>>> On 8/19/2011 9:05, Han Enderman wrote:
>>>> I have label images of 1491 stating Made In U.S.A.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Can you imagine people risking their lives in sub infested waters to
>>> bring them here?
>>>
>> There were still sub infested waters in 1954??!!!  Didn't anyone tell
>> them that the ended nine years earlier??!!  Were they like the Japanese
>> soldiers still hiding out in the jungle covered hills of some South
>> Pacific island?  But how did the subs get re-supplied?
>>
>> Back into reality on this topic, my copy is a U.S. pressing, an RCA
>> Victor pressing with obvious RCA masters, an Indianapolis pressing, I
>> seem to recall, dull label, and pressed on that wonderfully quiet
>> shellac RCA was using at that time.  I LOVE their rendition of In The
>> Mood.  It ranks up there with Ray Stevens' Hen House Five Plus Two!  I
>> posted about this record when I got it two or three years ago.
>>
>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com