[78-L] ARKA New York

[Michael Biel]

Oh, these are Ukrainian recordings.  There is a large Ukrainian
community in Canada.  In fact, there is still a store in Toronto called
Ukrainska Kniga, Ukrainian Books, which used to be the major source of
Soviet Melodiya records in Canada.  I got hundreds of them there.  I
didn't realize untill after my last trip up there that they were still
in business.  I wonder if they still have that giant warehouse full of
Melodiya LPs from the 70s.  


Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  


  -------- Original Message --------
 Subject: Re: [78-L] ARKA New York
 From: Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com>
 Date: Sat, October 01, 2011 11:10 am
 To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
 
 
 I do know that Victor had studios in Montreal, which is where Hank Snow
and Wilf Carter made their first records.
 
 Cary Ginell
 
 > Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 10:32:02 -0400
 > From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
 > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
 > Subject: Re: [78-L] ARKA New York
 > 
 > On 10/1/2011 10:16 AM, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
 > > On 10/1/2011 3:01, Birgit Lotz Verlag wrote:
 > >> Some labels state they were RECORDED in Canada. Could that be?
 > >> <http://www.russian-records.com/categories.php?cat_id=616>;
 > >> Just curious
 > >> Rainer
 > >>
 > > One question might be, "Where were recording and or pressing
facilities
 > > in Canada"? We know that there was Sparton, which made records for
 > > Bally, ABS, Capital, Columbia. They were located in London,
Ontario.
 > > Were there others?
 > >
 > Well, yeah..since Emile Berliner established a Canadian operation
somewhere 
 > around the year one, and his son Herbert started the Compo Company in
the 
 > 1910s. Post-war we had Musicana, which used Sparton's facilities,
then Mercury 
 > of Canada which morphed into Quality in 1950. There were some west
coast labels 
 > as well, although for some of them it was easier to get pressings
done in the 
 > States. Victor, Compo, Quality and Sparton all did custom pressings
for small 
 > labels up here as well as handling labels like London, MGM, Decca et
al.
 > 
 > dl