Re: [ARSCLIST] Edisoniae--was: The Incompetence at ENHS

[Roger and Allison Kulp <thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx>]

OK,but why not let somebody else put out the material
as commercial reissues? RCA Victor,and EMI had no
reservations about reissuing acoustic material during
the Lp era,so there was a market for it.There were all
sorts of enterprising people who started up small
independents in the 50s,are you telling me there would
have been no takers for the Edison catalogue ? Or did
they simply not try ? 

                    Roger Kulp

--- David Breneman <david_breneman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> --- Roger and Allison Kulp <thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > I don't know the history of how the recordings got
> > into the hands of McGraw/Hill,in 1956,someone
> could
> > enlighten me here.Why didn't they just put the
> > catalogue,on the market,and let some other label
> > reissue the stuff,and make money off of it ?
> 
> Not McGraw-Hill, the publishing company, but McGraw-
> Edison, the electrical equipment company.  They were
> the corporate descendant of Edison's own company. 
> The
> company eventually divested itself in the 1970s.
> I believe Black and Decker got its power tool and
> home appliance business, which was by that point
> about all of value that was left.  I believe they
> were in a rather weak financial situation from the
> end of WWII onward, and probably looked at the
> West Orange facility as a white elephant that
> they were more than happy to unload on the federal
> government, buildings and contents.
> 
> 
> 
> David Breneman         david_breneman@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
>  
>
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