Re: [ARSCLIST] LP pressing question

[Roger and Allison Kulp <thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx>]

Angel started up in 1953.I worded this wrong.I meant to say liscenced,not pressed.

                                          Roger

Steve Abrams <steve.abrams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: I don't think this is true.  I don't think that UK Columbias issued LPs 
prior to 1953, though they may have begun toward the end of 1952.  UK 
Columbia LPs, pressed in the UK, were issued in America, beginning in 1953 
as the Angel series, marketed by Dario Soria.

Steve Abrams

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger and Allison Kulp" 
To: 
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] LP pressing question


> Coulmbia UK records were pressed by Columbia USA,before 1953,when they 
> severed ties with EMI,and joined up with Philips.The old pre-1953 
> Columbias all have "W" matrices.
>
>
>
>                                               Roger
>
> Matthew Barton  wrote: I was unaware of this too, but I 
> don't think that the magnetic recording and patent situation explains the 
> emergence of independent recording companies in the 1940s entirely. Many 
> important indies, such as King in Cincinatti, Bullet in Nashville and 
> Modern in Los Angeles started before tape recorders were available in the 
> United States. Some, like King, were started before the end of the War. 
> Sam Phillips recorded to acetate when he started Sun Studios in Memphis 
> after the War and stayed it with it for awhile--I believe that Rocket 88, 
> recorded early in 1950, is an acetate. Starting in New Orleans at about 
> the same time, Cosimo Matassa cut acetates at his J&M studios, and his 
> 1949 and 1950 recordings of Fats Domino for Imperial were done to acetate.
>
> By the early 50s, to be sure, Indies were popping up everywhere, and I 
> have no doubt that this proliferation was greatly aided by the 
> technological and financial advantages offered by tape recording.
>
> Matthew Barton
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>>>> "Steven C. Barr(x)"  7/5/2007 8:47:28 PM >>>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Olhsson"
>> -----Original Message-----
>> >From Steven C. Barr: "...Anyway, it was pretty well after WWII that the
>> "record industry" evolved
>> from a handful of big "record companies" that maintained their own 
>> recording
>> studios, mastering facilities and pressing operations..."
>>
>> Electrical recordings were covered by numerous patents held by RCA and
>> A.T.&T. prior to the late '40s that required one to lease the recording
>> equipment and pay royalties on every copy sold. Indi labels only appeared
>> after the emergence of magnetic recording and the end of the need to pay
>> royalties to the patent holders. The majors responded by making their
>> facilities available to indi labels.
>>
> Thanxes muchly! I wasn't aware of this fact, and had never seen it 
> mentioned
> in any books or articles concerning the history of sound recording!
>
> BTW, didn't Columbia(UK) develop a process which somehow side-stepped the
> payment of royalties to WE and RCA...and indicate that by changing the 
> prefix
> on their matrix numbers from "W" to "C?"
>
> Steven C. Barr
>
>
>
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