78 RPM - Lord Canary - Me Clarinet / Calypso Ann - Asco - Guyana

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Lord Canary
Label:	Asco
Country:	Guyana
Catalogue:	BGA. 055
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Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Lord Canary	Me Clarinet	Malcolm Corrica	Rate
B	Harry Whittaker And His Calypso 7	Calypso Ann	Harry Whittaker	Rate

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CEE 163/CEE 164

Recording first published 1959.

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djkuyah 7th Jan 2022		I have an earlier 78 on Vee-Jays Special from 1958. Has a Made in England credit that means manufactured in the UK for Sale in 'British Guiana'. Many early JA 78's were manufactured in the UK - ah the power of Colonialism.



Scratchy45 4th May 2017		"Genius" would be wildly overstating it, xiphophilos, but thanks for the praise! I had a fun few minutes educating myself about how Guyana is such an anomaly in Latin America because of its particular colonial past, the cultural connection to the Caribbean islands rather than the South American mainland, and the use of English as an official language. I was reflecting on the sometimes very quirky nature of labels and releases in that part of the world (e.g. Jamaica), and then it suddenly leapt out at me.



xiphophilos ● 3rd May 2017		You are a genius, Scratchy45! Here is some background to Guyana's ASCO from a 2013 article about Pressure cookers (something else clearly not auto supply related that the company sells): "Auto Supplies Company (ASCO) has been in existence for over 60 years. The original name of the company was Guyana Pawnbrokers & Trading Company Limited. Auto Supplies became just a call name that stuck given the types of things sold at the store." ASCO still exists and is located at 306 Peter Rose Street, Queenstown, Georgetown, Guyana.



Scratchy45 2nd May 2017		Both sides feature Guyanans. Lord Canary is a stage name for Malcolm Corrica - a calypso artist popular in a number of Carribean islands , while Harry Whittaker on side two is the subject of a surprisingly exhaustive artist bio on discogs which includes a reference to him working with Lord Canary. As far as the "Auto Supplies" reference goes, look at the label name - Auto Supplies COmpany, perhaps? Might this be a case of overprinting on a generic label? I'm no typographical authority but there does seem to be a mix of label typefaces here, though that's not of itself unusual.



slholzer 2nd May 2017		This is another of those labels that raises interesting, and possibly unresolvable, questions about where it should be attributed to. It bears the legend "Made in England," and yet the label itself is based in Georgetown, British Guiana. I don't know that "made in" and "recorded in" are necessarily the same thing. I don't know, but suspect, that the talent is local to British Guiana. I also don't know if the records were actually ever sold in England. Can anybody explain to me the significance of the words "Auto Supplies" below the artist credits? The publisher, perhaps?

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