Thursday, March 05, 2009
HERE'S another bit of Canadiana, as supplied by Bud.
I'm confused by what appears to be too many numbers on these Sparton disc labels, and I'm looking for help with interpreting them.
261R must be the catalogue number.
4-69-E & 4-70-E must be the matrix numbers.
But what is 4-56? Could it possibly refer to an album?
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Also, I'm amused by the injunction against playing this disc on the radio, paired with the inclusion of the BMI reference for royalties, should it be played on the radio.
And isn't the time length provided on the label as a service to DJs? Did anyone else really need to know how long a song runs for?
# posted by Fred Freud @ 11:10 a.m. 
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4-56 is the release date. Sparton, Quality and Canadian Columbia showed these dates from about the mid 50s.
The "do not broadcast or we'll have your gonads for brunch" warning was standard on record labels beginning some time in the 20s..since radio stations paid licensing fees anyway, it couldn't have meant anything. The timings were for radio stations, but it was probably much simpler to print standardized labels, especially in Canada where we rarely got promo labels because of the smaller market. The publishing info was also for radio station use..if you clean out old station libraries, you'll often find ASCAP (or -CAP) and BMI stickers covering the top part of the label. We used to have to send logs a few times a year and ASCAP (or CAPAC) and BMI (later PRO-CAN) would base their
royalties on these submissions..so if your friend wrote a song and Anne Murray stuck it on her second album, that was the week you played it. These surveys were never done around Christmas time. Two guesses why.
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4-56 is the release date. Sparton, Quality and Canadian Columbia showed these dates from about the mid 50s.
The "do not broadcast or we'll have your gonads for brunch" warning was standard on record labels beginning some time in the 20s..since radio stations paid licensing fees anyway, it couldn't have meant anything. The timings were for radio stations, but it was probably much simpler to print standardized labels, especially in Canada where we rarely got promo labels because of the smaller market. The publishing info was also for radio station use..if you clean out old station libraries, you'll often find ASCAP (or -CAP) and BMI stickers covering the top part of the label. We used to have to send logs a few times a year and ASCAP (or CAPAC) and BMI (later PRO-CAN) would base their
royalties on these submissions..so if your friend wrote a song and Anne Murray stuck it on her second album, that was the week you played it. These surveys were never done around Christmas time. Two guesses why.
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