On 23/09/2012 18:45, Steve Smolian wrote:
> In Abrams Django discography, his lists a group of French recordings from 6/14/38 and later as being French Decca recordings.  The matrix series has the HPP suffix used by French Polydor.  What gives?
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> As far as I know, the companies were not corporately related.
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> Is it possible that English Decca paid French Polydor to make these recordings for them?  Confusing.
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> Steve Smolian
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Also St Louis Blues, China Boy, It Was So Beautiful from 1935. There 
were ties of distribution in the classical field - how "corporate" they 
were I wouldn't know.