Re: [ARSCLIST] Early DG 78s/History

["Steven C. Barr(x)" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger and Allison Kulp" <thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx>
> Can anybody give me the history on this label design,or this period in DG's
history ?
>
http://cgi.ebay.com/Jacques-URLUS-RARE-GERMAN-GRAMMOPHON_W0QQitemZ250186240976QQihZ015QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
> I had seen records on this label turn up a number of times on eBay in recent
years, but had never actually seen one.
> Does anyone have a source for information about DG's ties to The Gramophone
Company/EMI/HMV,and how and why they severed these ties,and stopped using the
HMV dog on their labels ?Would this have been sometime shortly after WWII?
>
Right idea...wrong war! DG was originally the German branch of the UK-based
"Gramophone (& Typewriter) Company"...and as such had rights to use the
noted "Nipper image!" When WWI erupted, the connections between DG and
its erstwhile UK "master" were broken (there was also a German "pirate"
operation, using legally-acquired HMV/Victor sides...!).

Electrola replaced DG after WWI...and served as the connection to issue
Victor and HMV(UK) material after WWI. WWII brought a whole new set of
complications...Electrola gradually disappeared, and DG dropped any
connections with RCA Victor, becoming a major classical-LP label once
the effects of the war wore off.

Steven C. Barr