Es ist ein bisschen kompliziert … UK Columbia ist nicht US Columbia, aber die Gesellschaften hingen zusammen – auf immer mal wieder andere Weise, je nach Zeitraum.
The Columbia Phonograph Company was originally founded in the US by Edward D. Easton in 1887 […] From about 1898 until 1922 the US parent company managed a UK subsidiary, the Columbia Graphophone Manufacturing Company. […]
The repercussions of the stock market Crash of 1929 led to huge losses in the recording industry and, in March 1931, J.P Morgan, the major shareholder, steered the Columbia Graphophone Company (along with Odeon Records and Parlophone, which it had owned since 1926) into a merger with the Gramophone Company (HMV) to form Electric and Musical Industries Ltd (EMI). By the time of the merger, the Gramophone Company had not fully developed an alternative to Western Electric’s process and was still paying royalty fees, so it was a technically advantageous move.
Since the Gramophone Company (HMV) was a wholly owned subsidiary of Victor, and Columbia in America was a subsidiary of UK Columbia, Victor now technically owned its largest rival in the US. To avoid antitrust legislation, EMI had to sell off its US Columbia operation, which continued to release pressings of matrices made in the UK. The American company was eventually absorbed by Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (another of its former offshoots) in 1938.
EMI continued to operate the Columbia record label in the UK until the early 1970s, and in all other territories except for the US, Canada, Spain and Japan, until it sold its remaining interest in the Columbia trademark to Sony Music Entertainment in 1990.
Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Graphophone_Company
Heisst, Columbia UK und damit die Landsdowne Reihe, wo das Clayton-Album (und ganz vieles mehr, was z.B. Gilles Peterson oder auch Dutton Vocalion wieder ausgegraben haben) erschienen ist, gehörte damals zu EMI
Bis 1957 vertrieb EMI die US-Platten von RCA Victor … aber die Frage hier wäre ja, wer 1961 in den USA EMI-Platten (aka Columbia UK-Platten) vertrieb … war das EMI selbst oder vielleicht am Ende wieder die US Columbia (die da ja eigentlich schon längst die CBS war, aber ihre Jazzplatten unter dem Columbia-Label verkaufte)? Ich hab das alles schon zehn mal nachgelesen und kann es mir doch nie merken … aber Clayton war ja in den USA bei (US) Columbia.
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