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Re: [ARSCLIST] Harmony acoustics, 1925
I have some unusual obscurities on this label,by
Italian conductors I have yet to identify.
Roger Kulp
--- Rod Stephens <savecal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As an additional sidebar, Harmony was still being
> used by Columbia as a
> budget label in 1958 when re-released a shorter
> version of my college
> choir's original 1954 Entré LP. It was shortened
> by four selections,
> and of course, sold for less.
>
> Rod Stephens
>
> Dick Spottswood wrote:
>
> >Harmony was launched in the summer of 1925 as a
> budget label. It retailed
> >at $0.50 (I think) and slightly more west of the
> Rockies. Columbia's
> >electrically-made products required royalty
> payments to Westen Electric.
> >Harmony (and spin-offs Velvet Tone and Diva)
> didn't require royalties and
> >allowed acoustic recording equipment from becoming
> obsolete, at least for
> >a few years. Vocalion also became a budget label
> for a few months in
> >1925, retailing acoustically made discs for fifty
> cents until 10/22/1925,
> >when the first electric masters for Vocalion were
> made. The price soon
> >went back to 0.75.
> >
> >Dick
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >George Brock-Nannestad <pattac@xxxxxxxx>
> >Sent by: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion
> List <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx>
> >10/23/2006 02:23 PM
> >Please respond to
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> >
> >
> >To
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> >cc
> >
> >Subject
> >Re: [ARSCLIST] Early Polydor electrics, the
> depression, etc
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >Steven Smolian wrote (snipped)
> >
> >
> >
> >>I have no documentation to prove it but feel
> certain that the reason
> >>Columbia made paralell recordings acoustically to
> their electrics, the
> >>former issued on Harmony, was to cater to the old
> wind-up market.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >----- I have always thought that when Frank Andrews
> in his discography of
> >10"
> >English Columbia records speaks about "electrical
> re-recording" in 1925 he
> >
> >means taking the acoustic record, playing it and
> creating a new
> >electrically
> >recorded master, while retaining the old catalogue
> number. So I never
> >thought that they were making parallel recordings
> >
> >----- someone with a better collection than mine
> (or better finding aids)
> >may
> >be able to confirm this - there is a chance of a
> change in the background
> >noise at the beginning of the electrical one (if in
> pristine condition)
> >
> >----- on the other hand, I would prefer positive
> proof that parallel
> >sessions
> >were used.
> >
> >Kind regards,
> >
> >George
> >
> >
> >
>
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