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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | The Beatles' Helping 'HAND' |
| Date | Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:52:23 -0500 |
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AT Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 19:10:16 Billy wrote:
>Smart guy - one story I heard that many Detroit stations were playing many
>Canadian singles first >(Please Mr. Postman) before Capitol heard about
>them.
Capitol Canada was leaking the singles to the border towns across the
country in hopes of stimulating export sales in Niagara Falls, Ottawa,
Windsor, Sault Ste. Marie, etc. retail outlets up here ...this may have been
the real reason Capitol in the US moved fast on securing the rights...to
stop the territorial damage [though I'm sure that Paul White would have
gotten his hands slapped at the same time].
>Did he help the Animals and The Hermits get signed to MGM, Pacemakers to
>Laurie, Hollies to Imperial?
Nope...but, it is possible that Paul White saw these acts all going to
smaller US labels and decided to grab them all for Capitol as a package
deal.
>EMI (and all thier associated labels) had so many great artists that the
>brains at Capitol should have >snapped them all up for USA distribution
>instead of letting them go to other labels. To have the >Hermits, Animals,
>Gerry & The Pacemakers and The Hollies all on the swirl label like Capitol
>Canada >did would have been quite a juggernaut. I wonder how the Hollies
>early hits would have
>fared if Capitol USA had been thier label instead of the weaker Imperial,
>who couldnt break them >until 1965.
Would have altered history slightly I think. You have to understood too that
Paul White wasn't so much a visionary as he was a quick study in
opportunism. Canada ran satellite offices for their American
counterparts....none of the field offices here for those major labels had
the signing authority that they do today...in fact, there were no domestic
signings on any of these labels prior to the legislation era (1971 -- when
the government implemented the culturally protectionist CanCon rules for
radio airplay). White asked head office if he could stimulate the
territory...and in 1963 we would have had less than 20 million people.
Capitol in LA shrugged and didn't think twice about any of it...as long as
he kept pushing the US Hit Parade titles (like Bobby Darin, f'rinstance) and
catalogue to drive sales.
Couple White's expertise in spotting the trend and driving these records
himself to the home of hit radio in Canada, CHUM-AM, and you had a hit
record making machine in action.
Jaimie Vernon,
Bullseye
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