[78-L] Angel Records - EMI US, made in Canada 78rpm

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sun Jul 14 17:40:34 PDT 2013


I have a couple from the 1920s. And the Board of Education records from the 
40s, which were all recorded by the piano team of Malcolm And Godden, had Angel 
logos into the early 50s. I would still like to find these..every school and 
BoE seems to have tossed them.

dl

On 7/14/2013 7:22 PM, Dave Burnham wrote:
> I've only seen the private Angels from late '40s and early '50s, none from earlier days that I can recall.
>
> db
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 2013-07-14, at 6:58 PM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
>
>> I'm not near this stuff but I've had many Angel 78s on Canadian pressings. All
>> vinyl, too. Piaf, Trenet, other artists. Canadian Columbia lost access to them
>> after 1952 (but then got French material from Philips). Canadian Victor still
>> had French HMV material till 1957. There was also a Canadian Pathe label in the
>> 40s, which may have been distributed only by Les Editions Archambault in
>> Montreal, and not to be confused with Pathe that was part of Canadian
>> Capitol-EMI in the 60s.
>>
>> And to add to Dave Burnham's comment, Canadian Victor used the angel logo on
>> private recordings from at least the early 20s into the 50s.
>>
>> On 7/14/2013 6:41 PM, Thomas Stern wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Noticed this item on auction site:  161062565743
>>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/1950s-French-78-EDITH-PIAF-Les-Croix-on-Angel-ANG-C52-024-/161062565743?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item258013b
>>> 76f#ht_768wt_1119
>>>    Angel Records  Made in Canada
>>>    Electric&   Musical Industries (U.S.) Ltd.
>>>    C52.024  EDITH PIAF  Les Corix/Sous Le Ciel de Paris
>>>
>>> How extensive was the ANGEL 78rpm catalog ?
>>> Was this Canadian only, or were there US releases - same or different from Canada??
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>
>> On 7/14/2013 6:51 PM, Dave Burnham wrote:
>>> Weren't there Angel 78s at the beginning of time, before they started using HMV?
>>>
>>> db
>>>


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