Re: [ARSCLIST] Tis a strange world

[steven c <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Shoshani" <mshoshani@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> On Monday 12 June 2006 12.27, Roger and Allison Kulp wrote:
> > I wonder if it wasn't a big
> > mistake,when,[EMI] severed thier ties with RCA,in 1957.
>
> It was the other way round.  RCA had already begun distancing themselves
from
> EMI as far back as 1944, when David Sarnoff resigned from EMI's board. In
> 1946 Sir Ernest Fisk negotiated a licensing agreement with MGM Records, a
> move that displeased both Columbia and RCA. Columbia ended its licensing
> agreement with EMI in 1952. The final five year licensing agreement
between
> RCA and EMI was negotiated in that same year; a clause in the agreement
> provided for the deletion of all RCA titles from the EMI catalog in 1958.
>
Hmm-m-m-m...

So my HMV Elvis 78, on the "POP." series, turns out to be a bit of an
oddball item!

Steven C. Barr