Simply FABULOUS Roger, thanks.
Jay Sonin
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Record Hunter - Remington Records
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> From: Michael Biel <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Record Hunter - Remington Records
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> From: Music Hunter <[log in to unmask]>
>> Hi Thomas, I remember Remmington as a low budget priced label
>> that we sold for a dollar or two. I really don't remember much
>> else about them. as you know, this was many years ago.
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> Remington was "A Don Gabor Production" as was proclaimed on each album.
> Some of the covers were done by Alex Steinweiss, adding a bit of class
> to a budget label. The price of the record was built into the catalog
> number, and I think the lowest series was 199, and there was also a 299,
> perhaps even a 399 series. They probably ended up being GREATLY
> discounted!! Most of the recordings were European, some licensed and
> some he actually recorded and produced himself. The Enesco conducted
> Rumanian Rhapsodies were on Remington. At the 1999 IASA in Vienna we
> had a presentation by a conductor who had made many of the early 50s
> recordings in Vienna for many of the labels. I asked him about Gabor
> and he did not have nice memories of him.
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>> If my memory is correct, the Vox materials were all public domain
>> recordings.
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> There was a lot of info about George Mendelssohn in a Vox anniversary CD
> set a few years ago, and I doubt that more than a small few of the
> recordings on Vox were PD recordings -- at least the recordings
> themselves. As for the music, Haydn and Beethoven, etc. were PD, but
> Vox also released a lot of modern music. Pop stuff, too. Can't forget
> the George Feyer "Memories of . . ." series.
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>> At The Record Hunter in those days, we carried every title in print on
>> every label just like Music Hunter does now. With so many labels,
>> it's hard to remember those details after so many years. Jay Sonin
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> That was also Sam Goody's claim back in the early 50s. I never hit The
> Record Hunter until I was in high school around 1962, but that was after
> you were out of it (??) when it was only one store on 5th Ave. just
> north of 42nd St. Lots of fond memories there -- I can cite specific
> records I got there that were important to my collecting development.
> Things that were not at Goody's!! I don't remember the uptown and
> village locations of the RH I see in ads in the early 50s.
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> I've been wanting to put together an ARSC presentation about NYC record
> stores, and I need to get together with you! We need to capture the
> golden age of the independent store in the 40s and 50s.
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> Mike Biel [log in to unmask]
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> From: "Thomas Stern" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 9:47 PM
> Subject: Record Hunter - Remington Records
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>> Hello Jay Sonin,
>> I noticed your post on ARSCLIST re Boris Rose.
>> Wonder if you have any information about the relationship between Record
>> Hunter and
>> Remington - I remember buying many of their albums at the Record Hunter -
>> they seemed to be a
>> perpetual "sale" item.
>> I did an extensive Richard Dyer-Bennet discography a while ago, and there
>> is the unexplained
>> modification to his Remington album. After the initial release, two
>> tracks were deleted
>> on all subsequent Remington pressings (some still listed the songs on the
>> label even though they
>> were NOT on the LP), and not on the Continental reissues.
>> Do you have any knowledge of why this was done?
>> Also, some sources have theorized that the tracks on a VOX ep might have
>> come from the Remington session. They could also quite
>> easily be unissued masters from the Vox 78rpm recordings.
>> If you know anything related to these questions, or can direct me to
>> someone who does, it would be very
>> helpful to my researches.
>> Thank you.
>> Best wishes, Thomas.
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