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

[Michael Biel]

Racism??
 Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  

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From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>


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?