[78-L] Harmonists on EMI

[Kristjan Saag]

Blitz?
AFAIK the worst damage done to Gramophone Company's factory in Hayes was 
on July 7, 1944, when a surface shelter was hit by a bomb and 37 workers 
were killed. Little damage was done to the factory itself or its offices 
and archives.
Besides: The Comedian Harmonists didn't record much in London. Most of 
their recordings were done for Odeon and Electrola in Berlin, and only a 
handful of these were issued by HMV.
The Electrola/ Lindström factory in Berlin, on the other hand, was 
looted by Russian liberators in 1945; records, ledgers, matrices etc 
were damaged and the remains thrown into the river Spree. What was saved 
was later incorporated in the EMI/ Electrola archives in Cologne.

Kristjan


On 2012-01-25 14:59, David Lennick wrote:
> I doubt that the metals would have survived the blitz or the various scrap
> drives. I've had a few EMI lp reissues on Electrola and HMV and all have been
> from pressings.
>
> dl
>
> On 1/25/2012 8:56 AM, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
>> Has EMI released any CDs (or LPs) of the Comedian Harmonists sourced
>> from metal parts?
>>
>> Do any metal parts even survive?
>
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