[78-L] Harmonists on EMI

[neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com]

Rephrasing the question -

has ANYONE issued CH from metal parts and are any known to survive ANYWHERE?

Thanks

joe salerno


On 1/25/2012 9:22 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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Joe Salerno