[78-L] Universal gets EMI

[David Lennick]

NO! Glenn Miller's Columbia and Brunswick sides are still "somebody 
else's"..we're not down to just one label yet.

dl

On 11/11/2011 10:52 AM, Michael Shoshani wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 09:41 -0600, neechevoneeznayou+AEA-gmail.com wrote:
> +AD4 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204224604577031694160429400.html
> +AD4
> +AD4 Sony gets the publishing side. Deal expected to close today.
> +AD4
> +AD4 When I think of all those racks full of Berliners that I saw when I was
> +AD4 there for the ARSC Conference in 2001....
>
> So, for the record business at least, the cart now owns the horse.  The
> Gramophone Company owned Deutsche Grammophon until the latter was
> nationalized during the first World War. Now DG's parent is EMI's
> parent.
>
> Post-78 RPM era, it also means that The Beatles now share an irony with
> Glenn Miller: their entire commercial recorded catalog (and in the Fab's
> case, a legendary audition), recorded at the time for different labels,
> is all owned by the same organization now.
>
> MS
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