[78-L] Decca - Polydor

[David Lennick]

On 11/10/2011 5:06 PM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
> On 2011-11-10 20:35, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>
> "I remember often seeing Decca 78s with the notice "Recorded by Deutsche
> Grammophon" on the label.  The name that obviously comes to mind is Bert
> Kaempfert, but there were a number of red labeled Deccas with the
> notice, "A Polydor Recording"."
>
> --
> Bert Kaempfert only had two US single releases before "Wonderland Of
> Night" (1960), one in early 1958, "Midnight Blues", the other in 1959,
> "Cerveza". I doubt that any of these were offered on 78 rpm. But they
> were on Decca, all right.
> Kristjan
>
>
Don't forget, even The Beatles were on Decca from Polydor (and if you can find 
the pink-labelled promos on 45, you've got gold). I can't think of any red 
label Deccas with Polydor credits though..lots of black label and gold labels, 
which generally credited Deutsche Grammophon or DG Polydor for the pop 
material. Kaempfert was eventually signed to Decca but when I was at CKFM, one 
music programmer went out of his way to find the Polydor originals because they 
didn't have the trumpets all filtered out of existence.

dl