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

[Michael Biel]

On 8/20/2011 12:37 AM, Michael Biel wrote:

  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

To drop the other shoe, here are the dumb clucks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meqmRAgOYlc&feature=related

> 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.
>