sparton records
sparton of canada, ltd. & sparton of canada limited need to be merged .
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a picture of the sparton records plant / offices taken in the summer of 2010 by fred young. sparton records operated in this building from the 1950s onwards. the building is loacted at 99 ash street, london, ontario. sparton has manufactured tv' s, radios and records in the past. sparton is now gone from london as of 2010 but at the end they were manufacturing top secret military gear such as sonobuoys. the plant is currently for sale and is no longer in use .
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jack burger. the end on bongos. cheesecake cover. 1957 hifi / sparton lp
russ regan. i never knew / junior, junior, junior. sparton. 45
gatefold cover, sparton impulse records, most likely the canadian pressing of the us impulse label release was distributed by sparton. the outer slick are printed in usa but the inner sleeve printed in canada. outer sleeve is american with the impulse logo, but has a gold sparton logo printed on the front. burgundy label with gold text .
1963 - 66: “a product of abc - paramount records, inc. ”
country music sampler. copas, jones, moon, roy wiggins. starday / sparton lp
country music sampler. copas, jones, moon, frankie miller. starday / sparton lp
arthur lyman. love for sale. (alternate title). 1953 life / sparton lp
gatefold cover. sparton impulse records, most likely the canadian pressing of the us impulse label release was distributed by sparton and pressed by rca. the outer slick are printed in usa but the inner sleeve printed in canada. outer sleeve is american with the impulse logo, but has a silver sparton logo printed on the front. burgundy label with gold text .
1968 - 71: new label design maintains abc records, inc. ny 10019 addresss
don costa. music to break a sub - lease. 1959 abc - paramount / sparton lp
is canada different from “america”? obviously in licensing terms. based in london, ontario, sparton manufactured and distributed columbia records in canada from 1939 to 1954. it had distribution arrangements with other american record companies, most notably abc records. the record company closed in 1969 .
sparton records of london, ontario manufactured and distributed columbia 78' s in canada since 1940 and until 1954. that year they began their own label and for the next fifteen years issued records mostly from smaller u. s. labels, but most notably abc paramount, later known as abc records. in total this company issued over 1600 releases on 45 rpm records between 1954 and 1969. some famous artists who recorded for sparton include paul anka, ray charles, steve lawrence, tommy roe, annette, george hamilton iv, cliff richard and johnny nash .
betty martin. my honey' s lovin arms / you, me and us. sparton. 45
teddy randazzo - u. s mail / teenage senorita - canad ian sparton 4 - 1091 - r .
lucky pierre. you go i go. henri de pari. 7 days in barcelona. sparton. 45
. 2006. sparton of canada ltd. the canadian encyclopedia urltoken (accessed july 9, 2018) .
. 2006. sparton of canada ltd. the canadian encyclopedia urltoken (accessed july 9, 2018) .
abc records first introduce the double ® registered trademark – one either side of the logo boxes .
sparton’s september, 1961, hit, next in line following up let’s get together, was also a classic .
lloyd price /
mr. personality' s
15 hits / sparton / 1960 / canada / 1st pressing
the 45 was a top 10 hit for mills. in canada, sparton picked up the disney - tied buena vista label product. sparton also released a version by teen stars annette and tommy sands paired with the movie’s title song .
2. orange / black ring – product of abc paramount records, inc. (1963 - 6 )
used for new issues from around as - 9230 and for reissue of earlier titles. abc records trademark “r”
so it wasn’t just teen stars like mills and annette on the sparton hit parade that summer. an internet source — urltoken — lists a 45 by the canadian playboys, little brown gal, as also coming out on sparton that year .
in early 1940, columbia made arrangements with the firm sparton of canada, in london, ontario, to press a series of canadian columbia records, using the familiar red labels. at first, this consisted primarily of sides released on vocalion / okeh in the u. s. - columbia records were presumably imported - but within a short time the more popular columbia records also appeared in this series. the records were numbered differently than their u. s. counterparts, with numbers starting at c - 1 for the red - label series, and the sparton firm credited below the trade mark. these sold for 50 cents, as did their american counterparts. a very few records, such as some by canadian george formby, had no u. s. equivalent .
. r. the canadian encyclopedia. (2006). sparton of canada ltd. retrieved july 9, 2018 from urltoken
. r. the canadian encyclopedia. (2006). sparton of canada ltd. retrieved july 9, 2018 from urltoken
hmmm... i just noticed on the (original sparton) inner sleeve, it says
sparton of canada limited - london ontario - famous for sound since 1926 / records / television / stereo hi fi phonos / radios
. london ontario is about 100 miles across the border from jackson michigan, where the above radios were manufactured ...
still, it was also a place for about 30 years where good records found a vinyl solution in london .
sparton of canada, ltd. record manufacturing company established in 1930 in london, ont, by a us company, sparks - worthington. sparton of canada manufactured radios, phonographs, and household appliances and was the canadian presser and distributor 1939 - 54 for columbia records and thereafter, until 1969, for abc - paramount, disneyland, hifirecord, and its own sparton label. it was the first company in canada to press stereo recordings. besides many records from the sparton (usa) catalogue, the company issued 78s, singles (45s), or lps by ward allen, paul anka, joyce hahn, cliff mckay, jimmy namaro, the fiddler bob scott, don and priscilla wright, and other canadians .
foldout jacket is identical to an impulse (including the impulse logo in the white circle), but has
sparton
stamped at the top of the front cover in gold script. (not labeled sparton on spine nor on rear cover) .
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sparton of canada ltd .
in the canadian encyclopedia. historica canada, 1985—. article published february 8, 2006
, r. the canadian encyclopedia. (2006). sparton of canada ltd. retrieved july 9, 2018, from urltoken
5. black / red ring – product of abc records inc. new york ny 10019 (1967 - 71 )
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sparton of canada ltd
. the canadian encyclopedia. toronto: historica canada, 2006. web. 8 feb 2006 .
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sparton of canada ltd
. the canadian encyclopedia. toronto: historica canada, 2006. web. 8 feb 2006 .
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sparton of canada ltd
in the canadian encyclopedia. historica canada, 1985–. article published february 7, 2006. urltoken
over the years, his productions enjoyed international distribution through sparton records, warner bros. records, united artists records, attic records, bradleys records, qualiton imports, ioda, the orchard, and over a hundred digital stores including, itunes, amazon, emusic, rhapsody, pandora, spotify, 7 digital, at & t; , verizon, rogers, telus and bell. his music has been recorded by numerous artists. recently, andrew produced an album of his songs ,
norm amadio and friends
, performed by juno award winning jazz instrumentalists and vocalists. the album has received terrific reviews as well as domestic and international airplay. he received a producer of the year nomination from the east coast music association for this album .
sparton of canada, ltd. record manufacturing company established in 1930 in london, ont, by a us company, sparks - worthington .
for me sparton is a way to acquire great impulse records for a lot less. though they don' t come that cheap anymore. people seem to get to know this. the rollins was bought for 20 $, i was the only bidder ...
* * on may 15, 1954 a billboard article reported that columbia records had set up columbia records of canada, ltd effective june 30, 1954 (billboard). (courtesy of frank gould, music librarian, radio station cfox, pointe claire, quebec (1965 - 1969) and label manager, polydor records canada limited, montreal, quebec (1970 - 1976) )
let’s get together, sung by hayley mills and hayley mills, was a hit 45 issued in august that year by the old sparton label .
sparton of canada ltd
the canadian encyclopedia. eds. . toronto: historica canada, 2006. web. 9 jul. 2018 .
i have several “side - by - side” sparton and us impulse editions in my collection and i find no sonic difference between the burgundy - coloured (mono) and black - coloured (stereo) sparton pressings and their us counterparts. (i can’t speak to the yellow label editions, which came later .) my understanding is the sparton plant in london ontario was sent rvg - mastered us stampers to press the canadian issues .
same orange label with black our ring, but the small print at the foot of the label changes to abc paramount records inc .
formally, that would be sparton of canada ltd. , london, canada as it says in the smaller print at the bottom of the label .
a product of abc paramount records inc, manufactured by capitol records inc usa. not “genuine” impulse but some impulses releases were licensed to and manufactured by capitol records for their mail order capitol record club, starting in 1958. these are remastered and pressed at capitol’s own plant in scranton pa, not van gelder, and are distinguished by a capitol catalogue number smas - 9xxxx (hat tip: dave )
i have a sparton issue of phil sunkel' s jazz concerto which was, i think, on us abc paramount. i think it sounds great .
when the free press did report on london’s sparton plant in the final decades, its main line of production was apparently “anti - submarine listening devices. ”
none of these columbias were pressed in canada, as columbia or arc had no canadian operations. it is reasonable to assume, however, from the fact that the masterworks records and albums of this era are regularly found in canada, that the records were imported, although through what arrangement is not currently known. whether this arrangement included the popular series is also unknown, as the post - 1934 columbia records are scarce even in the u. s .
hi jay, the presence of ampar on one side is puzzling. goldmine give the release date of a32 as 1963. catalogue number a32 is after the label changed from ampar to abc records. its worth checking but i can’t think of an explanation, should be abc records both sides, however anything is possible .
well i can' t follow the replies claiming sparton impulse is crap. i' ve got 2 of them. coltrane and hartman and just in yesterday, rollins on impulse !
i have coltrane ballads in mono and stereo, both are light - ish (140 grams or so). but nice vinyl, not skimpy. i have an am - par wlp, a white and black abc records wpl some am - par orange and blacks, and many abc records orange and blacks, and none are particularly heavy .
sparton of canada did lots of other things than make records during its run in london from 1930 to 2009. the vinyl line had been gone decades earlier. bitter strikes in 1975 and 1981 helped crush its old neighbourhood - friendly feeling. at least once, it sold surveillance equipment to be used in a chilean prison linked to torture, after initially denying the deal .
i have a sparton issue of curtis fuller' s
soul trombone (the jazz clan )
. mine is mono (red label, gold lettering). i always thought it sounded great .
does anyone here have any experience with the canadian spartan pressings? since i live in canada most of the impulse records are find are the spartan ones. was wondering what people thought ?
boy, do i remember sparton pressings! absolute crap. most of the impulse albums available in canada were pressed by sparton. the stereo pressings were even worse than abominable. in order to hear the great coltrane, mingus, shepp, gary mcfarland and pee wee russell albums from impulse we had only one choice: buy the mono pressing. the monos weren' t great, but they were at least playable. the stereos, forget about it. earlier, sparton had wreaked the same havoc on atlantic albums. sparton at one time had been licensed to manufacture atlantic albums in canada. migawd they were awful. i' ll never forget pyramid by the modern jazz quartet. all that delicate interplay buried under an ocean of surface noise and out - of - phase stereo. even the mono on that one was a disaster. bad memories .
yesterday i found a impulse! lp in a local record shop. the lp with thick original cover and vinyl has not the original impulse! label but a black sparton label (made in london, canada) .
i’ve seen some early orange / black label impulse records with the deep groove on ebay but never in person. are the ones you have van gelder cuts, bell sound or capitol record club versions ?
hi dave, this is an interesting surprise – i’ve never heard of this club imprint before. checking back i see i have only four records on capitol and they are all straight uk capitol releases .
one interesting sidelight of columbia' s canadian operation, at least to some collectors, is the existence of two specifically canadian demonstration records (one and one half, in reality). when the second of the two records extolling columbia double - discs appeared, it appeared in both an american and canadian version, with the canadian records selling for 30 cents rather than 25 cents. further, when the patriotic series was introduced about 18 months later, columbia took advantage of the interest in it to recouple the promotional announcement with one of these sides. one further visible, bit not audible, variation exists: apparently at some point the canadian operation either ran out of their demonstration records or were delayed in issuing them, and copies of the u. s. issue have been noted with the price overstamped with
30 cents
.
for some records these are actually really really desirable (beatles, anything phil spector produced, etc) but for impulse they’re generally valued at a fraction of the regular releases. i’m not really qualified to comment on any sound quality differences but considering they’re not stamped off by rvg i think we can make some assumptions. also those beatles records have different catalog numbers than the aforementioned 5 - digit numbers beginning with 9 .
introduced for new titles around as - 9219. still black with red ring, but ny address replaced by copyright assertion “ (p) year abc records inc”. (also seen p 1971 and 1973) the vinyl is noticeably thinner. above example is a second issue taken from the original van gelder stereo master. the registered trademark (circled r) now appears at foot of impulse! logo and abc records logo .
i would like to add that of the ten impulse records i have with the abc - paramount label only one has a matte finish, the other nine are all semi - gloss like the earlier am - par label .
gives columbia' s initial address as 107 yonge street in toronto. further, as near as can be established, the canadian operation served only as a distributor of american (and, later, english) records, although it was not too long until the records were pressed in toronto from imported stampers, in all probability due to tariff considerations. to my knowledge, there is no evidence that any records were cut in canada, as will be discussed throughout this series of articles, although i suspect the possibility that some of the french - canadian material issued on the green - label (e - )
international
series may possibly have been recorded in montreal .
at or near the end of 1954 * *, columbia set up a canadian subsidiary and ended the pressing arrangement with sparton. by this time, the popular series had reached the 2500' s, the album series the 6600' s and the main masterworks series through 15000 and well into 16000. at this time the c - numbers were dropped and canadian columbias began appearing under the u. s. numbers. this label, although essentially similar to the familiar red columbia labels, is slightly different, both in colour and typography, from the sparton and u. s. labels. one significant difference is the display of the date of issue on the label. sparton, meanwhile, launched its own label, drawing mainly from independent u. s. labels for masters .
i picked up a john coltrane a50 mono on the yellow sparton label a few years back for a mere $ 5. it was in great condition and has the van gelder stamp. it seems to have the sound quality as the us orange and black issues .
i don’t have access to my records for a week, freddie, so i can’t confirm matte or semi - gloss. to own up, i haven’t ever taken note of any finish differences, so i have learned something. more homework required. ljc
when talking about the specific lps gregory references i’m not sure there would be much of a difference between those and the og in terms of release dates. that is, i think they stopped doing separate crc releases around the time those records would’ve been released .
at around as - 9231, the black / red ring label was replaced all - black / neon impulse! logo label, which in turn was replaced the following year by the green bullseye label, which lasted up to the sale to mca records in 1979 .
this one is actually fairly simple: the records gregory is referencing are capitol record club issues. i bet if he checks the catalog number on the label the number will be 5 digits instead of 4 (reference label variation number 4 in ljc’s original post) .
a - 33 remains the turning point. any number below 33 with abc paramount on the label is a second pressing, am par is a first. somewhere later, abc paramount was replaced by abc records, but i don’t have enough samples to tell when .
although columbia, the second pioneer company in the field of disc records, started production of them in late 1901, the firm did not set up a canadian operation until 1904, by which time they were already established in new york, london and other major european cities .
the am - par label changed to abc paramount at a - 33. titles a33 and below on an orange / black ring label with an am - par footer is an original first pressing. if the label is orange / black ring but abc paramount or abc records, or any of the later labels, it is later pressing. titles a - 34 and above up until around a - 164 would be expected to be on the abc paramount orange variation (or later orange / black ring abc records label, point of change undetermined) ,
back in the day, sparton of canada was a multi - faceted business with a workforce strong with women from the neighbourhoods around its old elm - ash - pine area complex. the record business included a long - term deal with columbia reached in 1939 with first discs released in 1940. that ended in 1954 .
my guess is that your theory is plausible – the same factory or group of factories would most likely have pressed these records across the label transitions from orange to black. later on, after 1973 however, it’s a whole different story, but that is an industry - wide phenomenon .
helmed by president george a. holmes, who lived at 975 waterloo st. , sparton made new connections with such labels as abc - paramount and found canadian talent to support. it also pioneered the release of stereophonic recordings in canada in 1958. by 1961, it was putting out some of the best jazz albums around .
in any case, columbia' s
canadian connection
was kept relatively unknown. many of the records apparently used u. s. labels (or were themselves imported) as the records are marked with both u. s. and canadian prices, while those pressed in canada are only identified by a slight alteration in the license statement, which reads
... this record may not be sold in canada ...
. the similarity of the label and the typography suggest the labels may well have been imported also! english columbia records, known at this point as
columbia - rena
were pressed in toronto also, using imported labels; one unusual pressing, in fact, couples a u. s. military band number with a u. k. version of
it' s a long way to tipperary
, with each side bearing the label and number of its original issue !
it was apparently around this same time that columbia in canada quit pressing the english rena records as such and substituted an r - series using the north american label. the records were issued under their u. k. number with an r - prefix (indicating rena ?). it is not clear at this point if these were issued similarly in the u. s. as with r - 4000 series, the majority of the issued material is of minimal interest to all but the most dedicated musical masochist, with the exception of sides by joe hayman (of
cohen
fame) and billy williams .
good ideas for further investigation, may call for help from people who have more copies of us impulse pressings than i have, so differences can be established and conclusions drawn by pooling information and label photos. i’ll make a start but it will have to keep until i have access to my records again .
ah ok, i wasn’t sure. it’s interesting whoever owns the red cabinets that i noticed two tenors in the pic. maybe switching off between them depending on his / her mood? !? anyway, i’m now overdue for an expedit…does ikea make any other cabinets you’ve heard of well suited for records? thanks !
strangely enough, this is not an indictment of canadian pressings. albums from the major labels, columbia and rca in particular, sounded far better in the canadian pressings than they did in the american originals. it' s not as though great lps couldn' t be manufactured north of the border, it' s just that sparton couldn' t do it .
this was not true, at least for a short time, of columbia' s
bargain
harmony label. it has been assumed that the lower - priced harmony label was created due to columbia' s having completely redesigned their acoustic recording equipment just before the introduction of electrical recording rendered it obsolete. certainly the harmony records have a high quality of sound for acoustic recording, and harmony was the last label to convert to electrical recording, using acoustically - cut masters into early 1930; both of these would tend to verify the possibility. in any case, the first records on the label in the u. s. were priced on the label at
fifty cents, fifty - five cents west of the rockies
, while the first hundred - odd canadian issues bore the equivalent legend ,
fifty cents, fifty - five cents west of great lakes
and a manufacturer' s credit with a toronto address. the issues thereafter, like their columbia counterparts, bore identical labels to their american counterparts, as did all velvet - tone records, with only the record sleeves admitting to their canadian origin .
one thing that i do not see covered here is the issue of so - called “monaural” pressings. a good example can be found in this listing: urltoken. some records have that monaural text in the corner, and some don’t. could anyone please explain the difference between these pressings and the ones that do not have this text (on the cover and on spine) ?
abc paramount’s record division, owner of the impulse! label, went through a number of name changes during this period. the am - par record corporation from 1955, changed in 1962 to abc - paramount records, inc. , and then again in 1967 to abc records, inc. hence impulse! titles issued on the orange / black ring first label can be dated from which of the three company names appears at the bottom of the label. subsequently the orange / black ring label was replaced by a new design, the black / red ring label, which had two iterations before it was finally replaced in 1973 by the all - black / neon logo label. thus in the period 1960 - 73 there are five chronological label variations to be found (all dates are approximate )
so impulse looked to be a simple label? i’ve checked out all mine and found only one split address label: 9140 stereo om, orange matte label. one side “a product of abc paramount records inc”, the other “a product of abc records inc. new york, n. y. 10019”. i’ve never found a 9140 mono orange copy, only white promo. all impulse white promos i’ve seen do not have any writing at the bottom of the label. should be of interest to know exactly when the orange label faded, with exceptions i’ve read in this interesting post. andrew, would you like to sum up all these info? my last orange, mono, is 9155, ayler in greenwich village but 9154, shepp the magic of ju - ju doesn’t seem to exist in orange nor in mono (white mono ?) .
there were several other series. records in albums carried a green label, a number in a c - 6000 series and a 75 cent price (!); this series also included a handful of issues, ranging from jazz reissues with no u. s. equivalent to british material. there was a second green label series, with c - 8000 numbers, which appears to include material by certain artists, most prominent among which was dinah shore. this may also have carried a premium price. 12
red label issues, of which there were very few, were numbered in the c - 25000 series. masterworks records had blue labels, appearing at first in c - 10000 (10
) and c - 15000 (12
) series, to which a c - 12000 and c - 2000 series, both in 12
, were added. the reason for the various series is not clear, unless they related to u. s. masterworks series, as all the 10
masterworks sold for $ 1. 00 and the 12
for $ 1. 25. albums also carried different numbers, with popular albums in an a - series and masterworks as d - and j -. not all u. s. albums or records had a canadian counterpart, however .
in mid 1916, probably shortly after berliner introduced his canadian - content (nominally !) 216000 series, columbia introduced an r - 4000 series. unlike berliner records, the columbias used american and english masters, although many if not all were made especially for canadian issue. the scope of material was not as wide as berliner' s, either; it consisted of much english material, mostly standard, the usual national songs, and a very few popular numbers. furthermore, while berliner issued close to 500 records between 1916 and 1924, columbia issued less than 60 in virtually the same period, and judging from their relative availability today, the berliner hmv' s far outsold the columbia counterparts. in the meantime, the patriotic series was apparently dropped in 1917 or 1918, with the last issues bearing a simpler blue - on - white version of the label .
so much great information here, just made collecting that much more fun! i have a copy of as - 9134 orange label / black ring, abc records inc, lw but no van gelder stamp. this is also how discogs identifies the first pressing, but isn’t it mastered by rvg? there is also an accompanying sheet with information in japanese, but nothing indicates elsewhere that it was pressed there. was it intended for export ?
unlike those penny black postage stamp anomalies worth a fortune, errors in record manufacturing processes – or failures in quality control checks – generally lead to price markdowns, and big smile from the astute collector. they happen frequently, as aaron has noted. songs in the wrong order, miss - spellings, miss - aligned print, labels from wrong record, got a few records for a song marked down due to wrong label. can i hear the label ?
second – however, it is interesting to note that although the design remained constant, the label designation did not. therefore, a first am - par pressing of, say, a - 21, would state, at the bottom on the white stripe on the back, “a product of am - par corp. ” however, my later 1968 black and red label stereo reissue has the same jacket design, but states “a product of abc - paramount records. ”
also to this point re: “a love supreme” there is apparently an issue with a hum throughout the stereo mix (my bad since i must’ve glossed over that comment on the ebay description, a rookie mistake !). not sure if this is just confined to later pressings – mine is an abc records (no “r”) pressing. any insights are greatly appreciated! also i haven’t taken delivery yet so am hoping this dreaded hum won’t overwhelm the music but who knows…
another event involving canada, although this time less directly, occurred also in 1925. the compo company had set up a u. s. subsidiary around 1922 to sell records to the large french - canadian population in new england, using montreal - recorded masters issued under the
apex
name rather than the starr label on which they appeared in canada. in 1925, columbia in the u. s. bought out compo' s new england operations and used compo masters on their 34000 - f french - canadian series, this being one of the few times that a non - columbia master was used on columbia records and lending credence to the assumption that columbia' s canadian operations did not have recording capability. sometime later, probably in 1928, the masters changed to an 110000 series; it is not clear if these are columbia - recorded masters (and if so where the recording was done) or control numbers to disguise the use of compo material .
besides the pressing history which has been expounded on, one factor in the “deterioration” of impulse! audio quality after 1973 was a change in lacquer mastering protocols. that year, abc records set up their own mastering department, with sound quality hit - and - miss (you think the sound of impulse lp’s is bad? listen to some of the “goldies 45” reissues of different labels from 1973 - 74 which make even the worst impulse jobs sound almost worthy of van gelder - style quality by comparison) .
the changeover in north america was marked by two things: the introduction of a unique label, primarily in various metallic colours (bronze for popular records) and decorated by tricolour banners (and hence known as the
flag
label); and the change of record numbers from an a - prefix to a d - suffix. the r - 4000 series was replaced by a 16000 - d series, still primarily (if not entirely) from english sources and still using a minimum of popular material. released only in canada, the 16000 - d series, appears to have included some canadian material, at least toward the end of its life in 1932. they appear to be primarily, if not entirely, recordings made at a yet undetermined site for issue originally on the 34000 - f french series, comprising various country dance records; artists include ben hokea, and several french - canadian performers of traditional québécois material. the highest number seen so far in this series is 16129 - d released early in 1933 .
in 1958, columbia introduced a new
modern
label in both u. s. and canada. the canadian version is silver on wine - red. the label was in use for a very short time in the u. s. , as 78s were dropped there in july 1958; however, columbia continued issuing 78s until at least august 1959, although it is likely that not all items appeared on 78, with country records apparently being the last thus issued. this concludes the segment on columbia .
from a 1970 billboard article on abc / dunhill’s 15th anniversary, i was able to get the skinny on which plants handled the label at the time. columbia and monarch were the obvious ones; others were: – clarion record mfg. co. , philadelphia (apparently used the same label copy type as diskmakers) – sun plastics co. and dynamic lp stereo record pressing co. , inc. , east newark, nj – plastic products co. , inc. , memphis, tn – specialty records corp. , olyphant, pa
in may 1925, the first electrical recordings were introduced, and shortly thereafter the
flag
label was replaced by a gold - on - black label based closely on the english columbia label introduced earlier. the label did not mention electrical recording, however, until about a year later, in spite of the fact that victor' s canadian operation (now no longer berliner) had
jumped the gun
by announcing the
v. e .
( electrical) process as soon as the first records appeared. during the use of the black label, columbia apparently reverted to the use of u. s. manufactured labels (or exact duplicates) with no mention of canada at all .
around as - 9164 (archie shepp, magic of ju ju) the orange / blank ring label is replaced by a new design – the second label design for impulse, now black label with thin red outer ring, with large logo box, footer reads a product of abc records, inc. new york, n. y. 10019. made in usa. there are a few exceptions in the catalogue sequence where black / red ring pops up in the middle of the final run of orange / black ring titles, a not unusual event illustrating number allocation and printing out of sync. there are no immediate audio - issues with the change of label design: purely a design change, with business as usual in the pressing plants .
other than this oddity, the first items appearing in the canadian columbia catalogue not in either of the parent catalogues were a direct result of canada entering world war i long before the u. s. this was the
patriotic
series, bearing an ornamental red / white / blue label and numbers in a
p
series. the material, of course, was all war songs, varying from marches to more plebeian fare, and all that i have seen were recorded either in london or new york. the english sides may well have appeared also on u. k. columbia, while the american sides seldom if ever appeared in their home country. some thirty odd records appeared in this series, which inspired berliner to deck some of his patriotic material in a similar label .
up to the very end of 1972, abc / dunhill had an array of pressing plants they used; from early 1973 onwards, virtually all lp’s and 45’s issued by the labels were pressed exclusively by columbia at their pitman, nj, terre haute, in and santa maria, ca plants. a few of the others i could glean: – discmakers, philadelphia, pa – plastic products, memphis, tn – specialty records corp. , olyphant, pa in addition, from 1969 - 71, there was an east coast plant i currently know not of, which used label copy typeset by progressive label co. of brooklyn, ny. as one can guess, pressing quality was hit - and - miss up to the point where abc / dunhill decided to go with columbia exclusively. most of their lp’s and 45’s from 1970 to mid - ’73 were mastered at the mastering lab in hollywood, with one exception being giorgio’s “son of my father” cut at annex studios. then from 1973 to the end, abc did the majority of their mastering in - house .
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stereo, 1968, black label. it is not certain that mono copies exist as they may have been phased out at this time
june 1958, maroon label. notice how extremely narrow is the groove section of the wax; it is almost half the width of a regular 45 of the same song length .
1966. yellow & black label, most copies were re - called and destroyed, remaining copies have a defect .
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alouette, pretty alouette (i will get you yet) r. s. v. p .
who' s our pet, annette! a. b. c. love
probably more info than anybody wanted, but i couldn' t resist ...
i have several of these myself. they are fine. the sound and vinyl quality is equivalent to impulses of similar vintage pressed stateside .
it' s quite possible they' re the same company. up to 30 or 40 years ago most us firms had maufacturing facilities in canada to make their product for the canadian market. those were the days of high tariffs and duties. now companies make their products wherever it is cheapest to do so and send them more or less freely across the border .
hmmm, that was exactly the opinion i have heard from others and the reason why i had left the record where it was .
my wife' s uncle lives in windsor, on, and used to be a canadian customs officer on the ambassador bridge between detroit and windsor. he was a real zealot, and would have searched his mom .
my wife told me tales of how residents of sw ontario would go over to detroit to shop and then sneak all sorts of stuff back. the women would take canadian clothes labels and sew them onto u. s. items before returning! but uncle clare could spot u. s. clothes a mile off. no need for sniffer dogs in them thar days .
both cleaned with art du son and both carrying the van gelder in the trailout .
they sound wonderful, no background noise at all. they sound exactly as my us originals on impulse .
art du son is great. just about to clean a couple of lps with that stuff .
it' s not got the best shelf life. my working solution develops white streaks or gloop. this occurs despite keeping it in the dark. none the less it works well enough and can also be safely used on shellac
the secret i find is just to mix up a small bottle and to keep the concentrate at the back of the fridge .
my current routine, zerostat gun on the record and pro - ject brush on it. art du son on it, and 3 loads of the zerostat to let it get as deep as possible. mofi brush the liquid in, in both directions. let it soak for 5 minutes, okki nokki vacuum for 3 turns. zerostat again. does miracles .
sounds promising. there are doubts about it, but bernie grundman has one. good enough for me .
i' ve been using the osage regiment for a few years. have not heard of art du son... any one tried both for comparison' s sake ?
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hayley mills was a teen movie star in the summer of 1961 when she played twin girls who determine to reunite their divorced parents in the parent trap. the mills characters also sang in the movie and she had a hit record with let? s get together written for its soundtrack. (special to qmi agency )
the most effervescent 88 seconds of vinyl ever pressed in my london arrived in the summer of 1961 .
just above it is the mills and mills credit. the double naming of the young british star plays along with her dual role as twins in the hit disney movie, the parent trap .
nothing against annette or tommy — but the betting here is the mills and mills version, all 88 seconds of it, is the immortal one .
by coincidence, the canadian playboys were playing the old oasis club, 434 richmond st. , at the same time in august that the mills movie was jamming the old capitol theatre on dundas st. information on the canadian playboys would be welcome here .
free press entertainment columnist bill webster said w. k. (bill) trudell, the capitol’s manager, had to stop selling tickets 30 minutes after the movie started .
“miss mills is surely the finest young actress on the screen today, ” webster wrote of the aug. 10, 1961 opening here .
he doesn’t seem to have noticed mills as a singer or commented on the 45. it may be that the mills hit came out later in august. still, its success made mills what we’d call a multi - platform star with a hit movie and a record in the same summer .
on a sadder note, singing by maureen o’hara, playing the twins’ mother, suffered on the capitol’s screen because “the synchronization of her song with the picture is not entirely perfect. ”
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schoenberg. sch erchen - chamber symph. op 9. berg concertino piano violin & winds
soul / r & b. olymp ics. shimmy like kate / workin' hard. canadian orig
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paul anka. hello young lovers / i love you the same old way. canadian orig 7
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shortly thereafter, in late 1916, canadian columbias became slightly more recognizable. the labels still bore no mention that a canadian operation existed, other than the slight rewording of price and license information, but the typography of the credits began differing noticeably from the u. s. issues, apparently indicating that canadian - manufactured labels were in use. this produced at least one interesting situation: the canadian issue of the dance version of
whispering
was issued with titles (not labels) reversed, which must have confused the north - of - the - border buyer somewhat !
the entire columbia operation in north america was, however, falling on hard times by the early 1920s, as economic slowdown and the coming of radio combined to seriously affect the record market. columbia issues grew less in number and major artists moved to other labels. finally, in late 1923, a rescue operation was called for .
in the fall of 1923, the columbia graphophone company went into receivership, having previously sold its english subsidiary. the english operation, in turn, helped to provide the financing to reorganize the successor columbia phonograph company. in 1924, the canadian operation was sold to canadian owners, although there was no change in the basic operation of the relationship to american and english firms. the english operation had, in fact, salvaged their american counterpart primarily to retain rights which were being negotiated with the western electric company to a new electrical recording process .
as previously mentioned, the operations of columbia in canada came to a complete halt in 1934, after the record division of the bankrupt grigsby - grunow firm in the u. s. was acquired by the american record corporation, whose material was being issued in canada by the compo company. compo, in fact, is said to have been interested in themselves acquiring the defunct columbia operation - an event which would certainly have changed the canadian recording industry - but did not have the money, even though the entire operation finally sold for $ 70, 000, including not only the catalogue, masters and trade names of columbia but one of the best available recording and pressing facilities .
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1971 - 73 address replaced by year of copyright, and adds registered trademark symbol r bottom left and right of the | impulse! | abc | logo box .
throughout the life of impulse! , many titles went through several pressings. the combination of the label and catalogue number can help determine whether a particular copy of a record is a prized first pressing or a later second or subsequent pressing. many second or later pressings still carry the rvg stamp indicating a van gelder master source, making them still attractive to the audiophile collector. after 1973 reissues were re - mastered copies without rvg and are considered inferior.
sparton records was a canadian record company which was based in london , ontario . sparton records was founded in 1930 by the american electronics company sparks-withington corp. , of jackson , michigan , which made sparton radios . it manufactured and distributed columbia records in canada from 1939 to 1954 . it had distribution arrangements with other american record companies , most notably abc records . it was the first record company in canada to manufacture stereo records in 1958 . sparton records suffered a potentially fatal blow when abc records switched canadian distribution from sparton to polydor records in november 1968 . while the record company folded the following year , sparton corporation is still in operation . sparton closed its london operations in 2009 . 
sparton records was a canadian record company which was based in london, ontario. sparton records was founded in 1930 by the american electronics company sparks-withington corp., of jackson, michigan, which made sparton radios. it manufactured and distributed columbia records in canada from 1939 to 1954. it had distribution arrangements with other american record companies, most notably abc records. it was the first record company in canada to manufacture stereo records in 1958. sparton records suffered a potentially fatal blow when abc records switched canadian distribution from sparton to polydor records in november 1968. while the record company folded the following year, sparton corporation is still in operation. sparton closed its london operations in 2009.
sparton records was a canadian record company which was based in london, ontario. sparton records was founded in 1930 by the american electronics company sparks-withington corp., of jackson, michigan, which made sparton radios. it manufactured and distributed columbia records in canada from 1939 to 1954. it had distribution arrangements with other american record companies, most notably abc records. it was the first record company in canada to manufacture stereo records in 1958. sparton records suffered a potentially fatal blow when abc records switched canadian distribution from sparton to polydor records in november 1968. while the record company folded the following year, sparton corporation is still in operation. sparton closed its london operations in 2009.