Delmark question

[clifford_thornton]

Hey - I was just thinking of this today. Who pressed up the UK versions of Delmark titles in the late '60s/early '70s? I have a couple of discs in US sleeves (N. Kimball address) with a two-tone blue textured label and a small deep groove around the spindle hole. On the outer area of the label it reads "Made in England" and "Unauthorised lending, copying..." but again, the jackets are paste-on domestic heavy cardboard with Chicago addresses. Chuck? Anyone?

[Chuck Nessa]

It would not be a N. Kimball address - that was a Nessa address. When I worked at Delmark, Esquire was the English rep.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

My only UK Delmark is an Esquire job. But it's Esquire through and through - label as you've described it Clifford, but cover in normal British thin laminated board (which comes unglued) and bears the usual Esquire address - same as on Prestige LPs from a decade earlier.

MG

[clifford_thornton]

It would not be a N. Kimball address - that was a Nessa address. When I worked at Delmark, Esquire was the English rep.

Sorry, brain fart. Thanks.

[JohnS]

I had several of these, Jarman, Mitchell and others. Looks like a US jacket but a UK pressing inside. No idea who handled these in the UK.

Esquire was long gone when these came out.

Edited January 21, 2009 by JohnS

[sidewinder]

Based on the description of the small deep groove I wonder if this could be pressed by the UK 'Joy' label? They did do UK issues of 60s Vee-Jays such as Buddy DeFranco's 'Blues Bag' it's a possibility that they might have handled Delmark perhaps? As John says, Esquire was gone by the early 1960s and Transatlantic/Xtra were issuing Prestige/Moodsville etc. over here. Xtra would be another possibility (they have a smallish DG too) - usually white label with red 'Xtra' though.

Edited January 21, 2009 by sidewinder

[Chuck Nessa]

Topic?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

So why would my copy of "Birth sign" have the Esquire name and address on it? (I was a bit surprised back then, because I thought they'd gone to the wall, but...

MG