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Subject: [Leica] OT: His Master's Voice
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Tue Apr 20 12:57:55 2004
References: <008b01c426f4$11008920$6501a8c0@len>

FWIW, the Artie Shaw recording is a dark Burgundy label, with the HMV picture in 
a dark sepia.

Leonard J Kapner wrote:

> As far as I can remember, the British Victor HMV recordings were distributed
> by the RCA, but were a different color label than the domestic product. I'm
> thinking of the old 78 rpm acetate platters and the early 33 rpm vinyl
> pressings. I don't know what happened once the Victor HMV was sold, about
> the time the M Series Leica came on the market. Hah! Back on topic...

A neat move, worthy of a Mornington Crescent player; but I think that HMV 
existed as a label into the sixties, so the two co-existed for about a decade.

Peter
> 
> Len
> 



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