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| From | Ralph Alfonso <ralph@nettwerk.com> |
| Subject | Paul White |
| Date | Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:50:45 -0800 |
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there is a whole history of Capitol Canada that you can buy in
hardcover...beautiful book...
from http://www.chapters.ca
Fifty Years of Music: The Story of EMI Music Canada
Author: Nicholas Jennings
Published By: CDG Books Canada
Hardcover
ISBN:0771576641
Published: April 2000
Temporarily Unavailable to Order
Our Price: $39.95
i have it at home & it covers some of this Beatles pre-history... a
rarer item is
a capitol canada promotional booklet that i was given back in 90-91
when i worked there
that had the full Paul White/Beatles story including some very mild
disparaging remarks about Capitol USA -
that booklet was quickly recalled and replaced with a more US
friendly version... i'll have
to go look for it... my ex-girlfriend may have sold it :(
I met Paul White a few times and he was a great guy... really nice
person... he told me a great story
about how he compiled that Capitol Canada Dave Clark Five
instrumental lp and when the DC5 came to tour,
Dave Clark just about went atomic as part of their EMI deal was that
there be NO instrumental albums.. oooops!
He had a lot of freedom to create Canada only lps that resulted in a
lot of great collector's items... very exciting times....
re: Capitol USA passing on the cream of the UK beat groups -
Dave Dexter was the man who said no, even tho, perversely, EMI was
his boss as the EMI organization had
bought Capitol in the 50s. All of this activity was going on in 1963,
so that, by the time the Beatles broke,
all these deals were already in place.... i mean, even Cliff Richard
couldn't get on Capitol USA....
There's also the fact that many groups were signed to production
deals (Mickie Most) and not necessarily
to EMI, and once Capitol passed, they were up for grabs. It's a bit
of a spider's web (Allen Klein has Herman's Hermits and The Animals
for the USA, for example - ALSO: Herman was NOT on Capitol Canada)
and why some acts are underserved comp wise in the USA or you have
Epic and EMI both flogging Hollies....
there's that rare first Animals lp on Capitol Canada before they lost
the rights to it.... b/w cover....
anyway.... this could go on for a while.... and it will :)
Ralph
oh BTW - there is a great documentary on the 70s Canadian music scene
that you can buy from the National Film Board of Canada called
Rock-A-Bye - great scene in the Capitol Canada offices of coming up
with a game for the Aarons & Ackley lp ("the game is so good, they'll
even listen to the music").... amazing access and footage of
Michel Pagliaro, The Stones, Alice Cooper, Ronnie Hawkins, Crowbar,
etc... i saw it on TV as a kid and just found out that it's for sale
online!!
http://www.nfb.ca/nfbstore/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?a=b&formatid=11527
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>Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:52:23 -0500
>From: "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com>
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: The Beatles' Helping 'HAND'
>Message-ID: <BAY2-F51q8Ui7rzCQI400015801@hotmail.com>
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>AT Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 19:10:16 Billy wrote:
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>>Smart guy - one story I heard that many Detroit stations were playing many
> >Canadian singles first >(Please Mr. Postman) before Capitol heard about
>>them.
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>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].
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>>Did he help the Animals and The Hermits get signed to MGM, Pacemakers to
>>Laurie, Hollies to Imperial?
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>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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