Date:Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:42:06 -0500
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Yup, Gart got it wrong..wonder why? (Galen Gart, American Record Label
Directory.) I've just looked at a number of Grand Award and Command discs, all
pre-65, and all are identified as Grand Award Record Corp, not Am-Par. (In
Canada all these labels came to us pressed by Sparton, so the confusion was
implanted in my mind over 40 years ago.)
dl
Tom Fine wrote:
> Hi David:
>
> I'm not sure who Gart is but his history of Grand Award is wrong. This,
> too has a few errors, but is more correct about the timeline:
> http://www.enochlight.com/~enochlig/index.php?title=Label_History
>
> The main point is, Grand Award/Command was not sold to ABC until the
> mid-60's. Enoch Light then went on to found Project 3, which stayed
> active into the 70's.
>
> ABC dropped the "Grand Award" name anywhere on the packaging by the
> later mid-60's (original Command records had the copyright date Grand
> Award, which was the parent company). I don't think they ever revived
> the brand afterwards. MCA bought ABC-Paramount sometime in the 70's (it
> might have been the late 60's, that's a date I'm not sure of). There was
> a series of Command reissues in the early 70's, usually as discounted
> double-albums, and MCA licensed some titles to Pickwick as cheapo
> discount-rack products. Then the label was dormant until MCA licensed
> some pop titles to Verase Serebande (sp?) for CD reissue in the late
> 80's or early 90's. Separately, MCA Classics reissued some Command
> Classics titles as part of their Double-Decker 2CD series.
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lennick" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 10:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Waldorf - 78 & LP
>
>
>> I have Waldorf 78s..always assumed they were part of the same company,
>> which if I'm not mistaken was part of Grand Award. Aside from some
>> 3-track-per-side 78s, I have one that has EIGHT tracks per side! Yes,
>> it's a 78. ROCK 'N' ROLL JAMBOREE, Waldorf Record Corp, BU-3..assorted
>> covers mostly by Artie Malvin and Enoch Light. Seems to me I have
>> another one that uses at least one Paul Whiteman track, which they
>> lifted from a Grand Award LP..might also have one or two of the Wally
>> Cox sides he did for them.
>>
>> As an aside, Grand Award inherited the Pilotone label and reissued the
>> two Erich Leinsdorf albums (including the Deems Taylor commentaries).
>> I've never found one of these reissues in playable condition.
>>
>> The whole Grand Award operation was absorbed by ABC Paramount in 1959,
>> per Gart.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> Thomas Stern wrote:
>>> Is the 78rpm WALDORF label, which issued some 6 song 78's the same
>>> company
>>> as the Waldorf-Music Hall early 10" LP label (did they issue 12inchers?)
>>> There are two Ink Spots items currently on eBay, listed as 78rpm EP's
>>> Any detailed information on either/both labels would be welcomed.
>>> Thanks!
>>> Best wishes, Thomas.
>>>
>>>
>>
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