Re: [ARSCLIST] Pirated Mengelberg 78s

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From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> This is fascinating! I'd always assumed (and to assume is to make an ass
of u
> and of me) that Obie stole nothing but Telefunkens..but there's a period
where
> Telefunken and Polydor (DG) are sharing the same roof, maybe before the
Siemens
> era. It still raises the question of how Obie got the discs to bootleg
while we
> were at war with Germany, or were enemy phonograph records still being
exported
> to the US? I find that hard to believe.
>
> As for "RCA", Obie wanted everyone to believe that the Record Corporation
of
> America stood for just that.
>
I should imagine that Obie had connections in other pseudo-neutral European
countries (i.e. Spain for one, or pre-occupation France) where German
records
could be purchased. Or...the material he pirated could have been obtained
before 12/8/1941, with plans for use after the US entered WWII (which many
people felt was just a matter of time)...?

Interestingly enough, I just ran across a later Varsity that used two
Three Suns sides previously issued on Majestic...under their original
T-* matrix numbers, yet!

Steven C. Barr