[78-L] Seeking info on Nippon Columbia A1095 [fwd]

[Gene Baron]

Same thing in the US in the '70s -- stickers covering the dog or in a few
cases a 'Columbia' logo, on the covers and sometimes on the labels
themselves.

Gene
gene.baron at gmail.com



On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Mike Harkin <xxm.harkin at yahoo.com> wrote:

> And in Germanyand England; EMI imports had Odeon stickers on 'em.
>
> Mike in Plovdiv
>
> --- On Fri, 12/30/11, Anthony G Pavick <pavukanton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Anthony G Pavick <pavukanton at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Seeking info on Nippon Columbia A1095
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Friday, December 30, 2011, 8:55 PM
>
>
> At 19:17 30/12/2011, RA wrote:
>
> >Another thing I'm curious about: on all four of the Japanese
> >records, the company's name and logo have been scratched out. Not
> >enough that you can't tell what it said if you're at all familiar
> >with records, but a definite effort to erase. Any idea what the
> >story is there?
>
> This is a rather unfortunate thing that people did to avoid
> trademark/ parallel import issues as what was Columbia and Victor in
> the USA was not the same company in Japan.
>
> I have a number of German 45s from the late 50s early 60s on Columbia
> and Brunswick that are similarly defaced. Worst I ever saw like this
> were some US Columbia 12 inch 'disco' singles in the 1970s at the HMV
> Store on Oxford Street in London that had black electricians tape
> plastered over the word COLUMBIA
>
> T
>
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