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Darren
On 14 nov 2012, at 04:58, Steve Smolian <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I finally tracked down Geoff Wheeler. His book on Columbia takes a somewhat different viewpoint. I'm taking the liberty of reproducing it here.
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> This is his publicity release:
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> IS COLUMBIA RECORDS A FRAUD?
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> Available now: The only book ever published that tells the full, true story of Columbia Records, and how CBS acquired its predecessor, Columbia Phonograph, and built it into a billion-dollar empire. The end result may be one of the biggest cases of corporate fraud in U.S. history!
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> Columbia Records:
> America’s Oldest Record Company 1886 to the Present
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> Written and Compiled by Geoffrey Wheeler
> As a signed, Limited Edition published by Hillbrook Press
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> This unprecedented book comes in two volumes:
> • Volume I (518 pages): The chronological history of Columbia Records, including how the
> company may be based on fraud.
> • Volume 2 (240 pages): The documents that prove what Volume I details.
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> Previously undisclosed company documents acquired by the author in 1997 peel away the layers of non-disclosure, falsehoods, and cover-up. Nobody else has likely seen these documents in decades. They may, in fact, no longer exist! The documents detail serious breaches in corporate ethics and accountability that have been concealed from Board members, business partners, shareholders, the government, and the public for more than 70 years.
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> Read the astonishing history as told through best possible evidence—more than 360 authentic sources: court records, contracts, incorporation papers, amendments, bankruptcy papers, dissolutions, contracts, financial reports, letters, patents, telegrams, press releases, corporate chronologies, memos, label discographies, business law, and appendices, plus letters from the author and the author’s counsel to Sony and Viacom attorneys, directors, and shareholder-relations. Information CBS received with substantiating court documents from a Chicago attorney in 1974 makes unequivocally clear that CBS did not and could not possibly own Columbia Phonograph, which CBS used as the “legal” basis from which Columbia Records grew!
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> Price for the two-volume set: $95.00 (shipping extra). The text is published in two 8-1/2x11 comb-bound volumes that lie flat for easy reading and reference.
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> TO ORDER:
> Contact IAJRC member Fred Cohen, Jazz Record Center, 236 West 26th, #804, New York, NY 10001; Phone: (212) 675-4480. E-mail: [log in to unmask] Or order directly from the author at [log in to unmask]
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> Other Books From Hillbrook Press
> You can also order any of these additional signed, limited-edition Hillbrook Press titles:
> • Jazz By Mail: Record Clubs & Record Labels, 1936-1958 ($60)
> • Dial Records: West Coast Jazz and the Be-Bop Era ($75)
> • Collectors Guide to Jazz on Bootleg & Reissue 78 R.P.M. Records 1932 to 1952, featuring 2500 Rarities on More Than 60 Labels ($60)
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