[78-L] Annie's Cousin Fanny

[David Lennick]

On 10/5/2011 9:32 AM, Michael Shoshani wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 09:26 -0400, David Lennick wrote:
>
>> As for Decca reissuing
>> the Brunswick take, how could they? Decca got the artists, but not access to
>> pre-1932 masters until the early 40s, and never to any of the post-1931
>> material.
>
> Oh, that's right. Silly me, I forgot that Decca didn't get Brunswick
> until something like 1940. The Decca versions...versionS, turns out that
> the song was done TWICE for Decca....were issued in 1934 and 1935. For
> some reason I have it in my head that Brunswick, Vocalion, and Decca
> were in the same stable back then and could have just exchanged masters.
> I forget that B and V were ARC and Decca was just getting its foot in
> the auto-changer back then.
>
Oddly enough, Decca started out with Brunswick's old studio equipment (pre-ARC) 
and even continued using their old matrix numbers for a while.

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