78 RPM - Gus Stone (The Canadian Cohn) - Cohen Exceeds The Speed Limit / Cohen At The Pay-Station - His Master's Voice - Canada

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Artist:	Gus Stone (The Canadian Cohn)
Label:	His Master's Voice
Country:	Canada
Catalogue:	216003
Date:	1917
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Gus Stone (The Canadian Cohn)	Cohen Exceeds The Speed Limit		Rate
B	Gus Stone (The Canadian Cohn)	Cohen At The Pay-Station		Rate

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Comic monologue

Gus Stone is a pseudonym of Herbert Berliner, then-vice president and general manager of the Berliner Gram-O-Phone Co.

Recorded in Montréal, Québec

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fantasista 24th Oct 2021		Just some notes regarding the "Canadian Cohen" and the Berliner 216000 series, from this article by Sandria P. Bouliane (French): ...it is with Cohen that Canada made a more concrete entrance upon the scene. In 1917, the first series of records dedicated to Canadian artists and recorded in Canada is produced in Montréal for the Berliner Gramophone Company on its His Master's Voice (HMV) label, in English, and La voix de son maître, in French, identified as HMV 216000. Cohen monologues and dialogues are cut on the second, third and fourth records made for this series. The character is played by Gus Stone, pseudonym of Herbert Berliner (1882-1966), then-president of Berliner Gramophone and project manager of the series. So it is that at the beginning of 1917 "Cohen on the Telephone" and other recordings appeared, bearing the reference to "The Canadian Cohen." It is difficult to document the reception of this Cohen, since Berliner was a debutant and he does not seem to have repeated the experiment. From Robert Thérien: In 1916, Herbert, through a subsidiary company, His Master's Voice, introduced the 216000 series, devoted to Canadian recordings. Later, an exclusively French-Canadian series was initiated in the HMV 263000 series. By 1920, the majority of the Berliner Gram-o-phone Company's records was recorded and pressed in Canada. Victor was vexed by this situation and asserted what must have been considerable pressure to displace Herbert Berliner from his position of control. How it was achieved will remain a mystery but, in 1921, Herbert Berliner resigned from the Berliner Gram-o-phone Company and departed for the Compo Company in Lachine, Québec, which he had established independently in 1918 to manufacture records for other recording labels. His younger brother Edgar undertook the presidency and management of Berliner; the HMV series was phased out and replaced with Victor recordings. A-side audio, B-side audio

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