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

[David Lennick]

Interesting note about price differences..they're usually around 5 or 10 cents 
higher in Canada but I've just found a copy of Columbia A1895, price 75 cents 
in the States, a whopping $1.00 in Canada! Fisk University Male Quartette. I 
wonder why there was such a hike at that time?

dl

On 11/6/2013 12:22 AM, Rodger J. Holtin wrote:
> So, if I'm reading this right, US Victors and Columbias were not
> distributed in Canada.  Now I'm wondering about all the black or blue label
> A-series Columbias I have with Canadian prices on them; "75 cents in USA,
> 85 cents in Canada."  (By 1920 they said "$1.00 in USA and $1.00 in
> Canada," and about then the pricing disappears.)  Pricing for records not
> even available?  Makes no sense to me.  What am I missing here?
>
> And if Whispering and Dardanella were not distributed on American Victors
> in Canada, and likely not even issued on Canadian issues, that means they
> were blacked-out or suppressed in Canada.  The hottest sellers of the day
> simply not available in Canada?  Really?  Were the ODJB records similarly
> snubbed?
>
> Have I missed something?
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 7:52 AM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
>
>> 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
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