[78-L] Canadian, American, like what's the difference eh?

[David Lennick]

Although we did have green labels for Cast albums until the mid 50s, and then 
they became Red Seal. Large stores like Promenade Music Centre would import US 
Red Seals and US Columbia 78s if they were unissued here and there was enough 
demand.

One odd example of reverse cross-border migration is in the film "Atlantic 
City". Shot in Canada, so props went and found a Tommy Dorsey record for a 
close-up and it's a Canadian Victor.

dl

On 11/4/2013 10:49 AM, Michael Biel wrote:
>> From this side of the border I can confirm Lenneck's observation of the
> complete absence of cross-border migration of records.  To this day we
> never see Canadian records -- 78's OR LPs -- here in the U.S. except for
> a rare group you might find in a Salvation Army that would seem to have
> come from one donation from one family of ex-pat Canadians who moved
> here with their records.  I NEVER saw late electrical Canadian
> bat-wings.  Even now I was astonished to see that RCA Victor LPs of
> shows and soundtracks were on Red Seal labels when junking in Toronto a
> couple of years ago.  Perhaps a few would have been seen in the border
> towns, but not as far down as the NYC area I grew up in.  It was a big
> deal when we would find a Canadian penny!
>
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>    -------- Original Message --------
>   Subject: [78-L] Canadian, American, like what's the difference eh?
>   From: "Han Enderman"<jcenderman at solcon.nl>
>   Date: Mon, November 04, 2013 10:33 am
>   To: "78-L"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>
>   The Canadian patriotic Columbia P series (blue-white with flag) has
> been discussed here long ago.
>   Did Canadian Columbia press records from the US catalog (A-&  -D
> series) of the teens/20s ?
>   If yes, how can such pressings be recognized (minor differences on
> labels) ?
>
>   han enderman
>   ===
>   >>>
>   The Canadian operation pressed many of the important recordings but
> also tried
>   to replace many with their own versions in the 216xxx series. I never
> saw a US
>   Victor in the flesh till I began serious collecting in the early 60s,
> other
>   than the odd one someone had brought up on a trip.
>   Columbias were a different story, looked almost identical.
>   Brunswicks said made in Canada but the labels were virtually identical
>   (not forgetting the earliest Vertical ones which were pressed only in
> Canada).
>
>   dl
>
>   On 11/4/2013 7:51 AM, rjh334578gmail wrote:
>   >  Were American Victors available at all in Canada?
>   >
>   >  Sent from my iPod - which explainz the bad typjng
>   >
>   >  On Nov 3, 2013, at 11:22 PM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>   >  wrote:
>   >
>   >>  I just happened to catch a tv spot for ANCESTRY.CA, a Canadian site
>   >>  (supposedly). Shows an old record spinning. An AMERICAN Victor
>   >>  batwing. Nice
>   >>  research, morons.
>   >>
>   >>  dl
>   <<<