[78-L] MAKEDONSKO-BLGARSKO (That's easy for you to say)

[David Lennick]

Here we have an interesting set of records, pressed for sale by VICTOR'S 
SHOPPE, a department store in Niagara Falls, Ontario, as "Victor's Foreign 
Record". The discs are all dubs from European pressings, complete with surface 
noise, wow, pitch flux and all that wonderful stuff that makes ethno-musicology 
such keen fun. No artists are credited and the pressings (made in USA on very 
delicate shellac) may date from the late 40s or early 50s, 4 discs in a box 
marked VICTOR'S FOREIGN RECORD SALES. No indication on  the box as to contents 
and the boxes were sealed (I just got one last week) so customers presumably 
knew the kind of material they were getting. But can anyone identify the 
sources of these?

V-850-01A/B: ZBORI MAME (Narodna Pesen)/KOKONESHTE (Narodno Horo)
V-850-02A/B: PETKO PRSTEN DAVA (Narodna Pesen)/VARDARSKO HORO (Narodno Horo)
V-850-03A/B: RESENKA RCHENICA (Narodno Horo)/SHOPSKO HORO (Narodno Horo)
V-850-04A/B: NA TRPEZA - KOSTURSKO (S Klarinet)/KASAPSKO HORO (S Armonika)

Go to it, ethnic types. My Bulgarian is a little rusty (someone left the 
Bulgarian out in the rain).

dl