[78-L] Harmonists on EMI

[David Lennick]

Probably the wrong word (blitz) but Harmonists records WERE pressed in England 
for that market and for export to America, so they would have had metals. I've 
had more than "only a handful". And boy are the surfaces noisy.

dl

On 1/25/2012 10:22 AM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
> 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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