[78-L] Universal gets EMI

[David Lennick]

I suspect that 20s English Brunswick masters have been owned by (what used to 
be U.S.) Decca since the early 1940s and thus are part of this whole tsimmis.

So now UMG owns EMI which owns Capitol which owns Blue Note, United Artists, 
Imperial, Liberty and my brain hurts. If they want to buy my EFREM name, I'm 
ready to negotiate.

dl

On 11/11/2011 12:31 PM, Harold Aherne wrote:
> Not only are the two Gramophone Co. siblings reunited, but EMI and the successors to
> British Decca are now joined as well. The two biggest rivals in the British recording industry
> from the 30s to 70s, under the same corporate umbrella! Indeed, from Decca's purchase
> of Crystalate's record division in 1937 until the founding of Nixa in the early 50s, EMI and
> Decca were just about the *only* British companies with a significant market presence, no?
>
> Glenn Miller's discography might not be consolidated quite yet, but I'm sure that many
> pre-50s UK artists' output now will be. Off the top of my head, Ambrose may be one
> (although I'm not quite certain who the owners are of the 20s Brunswick Cliftophone
> masters--Ambrose's orchestra recorded some in 1927-28).
>
> -HA
> _____________