[78-L] Gala: different label styles, is it the same company?

[Mike Harkin]

If you can find the issues pressed on reclaimed porcine excrement, they
sound 100% better.

Mike in Plovdiv

Ouch!  Bit my tongue trying to pull it out of my cheek....

--- On Mon, 11/12/12, Philip Fukuda <78rpm at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Philip Fukuda <78rpm at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Gala: different label styles, is it the same company?
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Monday, November 12, 2012, 8:28 PM
> Thanks for the quick reply. I haven't
> seen any Gala issues derived from Keynote or Apollo yet. 
> 
> I agree. All the ones I've heard were pressed on gravel (er,
> horrible-sounding shellac). 
> 
> Philip
> 
> 
> > ------------------------------
> > 
> > Message: 8
> > Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:24:56 +0000
> > From: david.diehl at hensteeth.com
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Gala: different label styles, is it
> the
> > same
> >     company?
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> > 
> > Earliest Gala are credited to Novelty Record Co. in
> the
> > Empire State Bldg., which was also promoting a Turf
> Derby
> > gambling/puzzle record in 1943/4. Ben Lane was the
> owner
> > until he sold out to Jubilee in 1950. Label colors may
> > reflect the pressing plant used for any particular run
> ;
> > i.e. grey with red print may be Keynote pressings, Aqua
> and
> > silver or green and silver may be Apollo.
> >  DJD
> > Visit the Blue Pages: the Encyclopedic Guide to 78 RPM
> Party
> > Records
> > http://www.hensteeth.com
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Lennick [mailto:dlennick at sympatico.ca]
> > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 11:21 AM
> > To: '78-L Mail List'
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Gala: different label styles, is it
> the
> > same company?
> > 
> > All the same company, as far as I know. Green labels on
> the
> > risque material as well..Charley Drew. I don't think
> Gala
> > ever reissued the Schirmer Wiley set (could be wrong)
> but
> > they definitely repressed the Rabson's, on absolutely
> > horrible shellac. ARLD lists only one Gala label in the
> 40s
> > (there's another in 1959), owned by one Ben Lane, with
> > various New York addresses and issue dates between 1943
> and
> > 1950.dlOn 11/12/2012 12:14 PM, Philip Fukuda wrote:>
> I've
> > come across three different Gala labels. Are they the
> same
> > company or different?>> 1) Black labels with
> silver
> > print. GALA in semi-Gothic lettering in front of a
> theater
> > curtain. I've seen the Willie Howard and Belle Baker
> albums.
> > All Yiddish material?>> 2) Red labels with GALA
> in
> > block lettering. I've seen reissues of Lee Wiley
> material
> > from Rabson's Music Box and Schirmer.>> 3) Black
> or
> > red labels with Gala in script lettering. I've seen
> risque
> > material from Dwight Fiske and others.>>
> Thanks,>
> > Philip>___________________
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