"Steven C. Barr(x)" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: - Well...if it were pre-mid 1914 (and the outbreak of WWI)...wouldn't it still include Nipper on its label(s)? The Gramophone Company, IIRC, set up subsidiary operations in virtually all European countries... and in each case the labels carried Nipper as well as a local- language translation of "His Master's Voice"...right?
In any case, as I understand it, DG DID continue to press records in Germany...including "pirated" versions of Victor Red Seal discs for which they had stampers. Since WWI divided the two groups of nations, each one as the others' "enemy," I would guess questions regarding the ownership of "enemy" copyrights were ignored by German courts.
DID "Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft" (I assume this was the German name of their branch...?!) issue records bearing pictures of "Nipper," and contemporary Victor and HMV(UK) sides? Or, were Gramophone-Company-related sides simply NOT issued in "enemy countries? As well, did DGG continue to exist once Electrola was established...or did it simply disappear temporarily?
Steven C. Barr
Nipper was on the labels,until 1945.If I could post pictures here,I would.They did not,as far as I know,issue anything other than DGG artists on this label.(Berlin Philharmonic,Wilhelm Kempff,etc,)DGG also issued Decca (US) jazz,on Brunswick after the 1933 ban.There is a long out of print book on jazz in Nazi Germany,published sometime in the 80s.(I have it somewhere.It has saxophones forming a swastika on the cover.)This book reprints part of a 1937 German Brunswick jazz record catalog.Anyone recall the name of this book,I can't offhand.
As for records from enemy countries,I have wartime Nippon Columbia 78s,by Bob Wills,Leon McCauliff,and Spade Cooley.I thought an old 78 hand like you might know about such stuff.
Roger
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