[78-L] MK and Artia Records

[David Lennick]

On 6/19/2013 2:10 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>
> From: Eric Goldberg<ericgoldie2 at yahoo.com>
>> Does anyone have a listing of MK and Artia records that were available in the
>> US during the early 1960's. I know that many of the MK records did derive from
>> 78s so I am actually on topic.  Thank you  Eric Goldberg
>
> This list really covers the 78 ERA, so the early 60s is still part of
> the era, especially in the Soviet Union!  I think I might have a listing
> of the MKs repackaged by the New Jersey company, but they renumbered
> them from the Soviet numbers.

But you got the original Soviet number on the labels.

> Actually, very few of them were from 78s.

It makes sense that they'd want to market contemporary material, although I'm 
not sure if the Shostakovich 8th Symphony was a recent recording or something 
derived from a 1940s tape.

> There is a large hardbound Soviet LP catalog that was published in 1965
> of the LPs that were considered of exportable interest (no domestic pop)
> and this shows how few LPs were really from 78s -- except for the
> microgroove 78s of 1953 which were out of print by then.
>
> I'm on my way to the Jazz Record Bash, so don't have time right now to
> hunt out the lists.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

Don't bash anything that I wouldn't bash.

dl