[78-L] Colortone LP's - Apollo connection ???

[David Lennick]

When I was at the closing sale at Rare Records in Glendale, in '92 (I think), 
someone there was claiming that the store owned the rights to Apollo's back 
catalog but didn't have too many of the actual records. I wonder if they ever 
did anything in the way of reissues?

dl

On 10/6/2011 3:18 PM, David Lewis wrote:
>
> By 1957, Apollo was on it's way out. Hy Siegel has left, and so had their main artist, Mahalia Jackson, and Bess Berman
> was left to contend with an expensive lawsuit from Hill-Range on her own. Most likely she simply cut a cheap license for
> the Gordon MacRae titles to Enoch Light for release on Colortone. When the tape moved from Light to Ampar the rights
> probably didn't transfer with it, although Berman never issued it on her later shadow label, Kenwood.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Records_(1944)
>
> Uncle Dave Lewis
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