[78-L] AFM ban discography

[Royal Pemberton]

Didn't Capitol (by then just transitioning into using tape) do a couple of
records on the sly in Mexico during the 1948 ban?  Much easier to sneak
tape machines in and out of Mexico and make high quality recordings you
couldn't quite achieve on discs....

Re Canada/Mexico/Hawaii etc., were their studios simply not capable of the
same recording quality as could be had in the best American facilities,
thus keeping the US labels from using them for the duration?  (And there is
that part of me that wonders how popular music might have ended up had FDR
stepped in and forbade the ban citing recorded music as something essential
before the record labels capitulated.  We'd have more early bebop jazz on
record, but would singers have become so much more popular than the bands
did?  Who knows....)

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 2:06 PM Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com.invalid> wrote:

>
> If Ethel Merman’s (We’ll be singing Hallelujah) Marching through Berlin on
> RCA Victor 29-1521 is listed as recorded in July 1942, why is it a capella
> with a male quartet?
> Mike Biel.
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>  Sorry, it was Hank Snow who did some sides during the ban.
>      On Thursday, September 3, 2020, 08:36:54 a.m. EDT, David Lennick <
> dplennick at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I'll never understand why Montreal and Toronto didn't take advantage
> of the ban by recording current songs there. Even Mexico City. And
> what about Honolulu?
>
> RayK
>
> Toronto had virtually NO commercial recording industry except for
> transcriptions and commercials. Victor and Compo had been active in
> Montreal for decades but stayed under the radar during the ban, with a few
> exceptions..Wilf Carter recorded some sides during the ban, but these sound
> as if they were done at a private studio, not Victor. Compo's Apex label
> had some recordings by Canadian singers who wouldn't have sold anything in
> the States. A local Newmarket bandleader, Max Boag, recorded 4 sides as
> "Harry Glenn" to satisfy the juke box trade, which couldn't get the current
> songs..these were issued on Apex. And they're bloody awful.
>
> dl
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