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18th Oct 2013, 11:11 PM
	carryonsidney a happy disposition is an omnious sign.... Member since Feb 2010 1710 Points Moderator	Looking down the list of UK RCA/ HMV / Glen miller scans here it seems to me that HMV simply had the licence to press RCA material here for the uk but maybe for some printing oversight decided to use stickers instead to show that. We can see from various posts that the stickers appear on the early pressings but as Glen Miller was enormously popular here his records were probably kept on catalogue for a long time into the 1950's? Probably a change of contractural obligations meant HMV no longer had to do this? By the way I think the records as Ships ballast is an urban myth. If you had a idea of the size of the average merchant ship in those days you would have needed hundreds of thousands of records to provide the hundred[s] of tonnes of weight required [just on one boat]. Traditionally ballast is simply rocks, sand or just water, all of which was "free" to the shipping lines. Edited by carryonsidney on 18th Oct 2013, 11:11 PM

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