Big Band - Small Band

These three discs show how Quality would license sides from companies in the U.S.A. and reflect it on their label:

(1953) For the Crows, Quality fails to mention the original Rama label (cat# 5) at all:


(1954) A year later with Otis Williams and the Charms, Quality still uses their own label but acknowledges King records as the owner of the original DeLuxe label (cat# 6062):



(1956) Then for the Diamonds, Quality simulates a Mercury label & repeats the Mercury catalogue # (70835):


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All three discs have dropped the erroneous "Not licensed for broadcast" statement, in favour of listing BMI Canada Ltd to collect performance royalties. BMI Canada underwent name changes in the 1970's, eventually becoming PROCAN. In 1990 PROCAN merged with CAPAC (a Canadian hybrid of ASCAP & the U.K.'s PRS) to become SOCAN.

# posted by Fred Freud @ 11:30 a.m.