EMI Exporting Records to USA

[Roburt]

Came across this interesting piece from 1967 about EMI setting up in the US with a (NY based) firm that would distribute all the records sent by EMI to the US from 16 different countries that the company pressed records up in ..............

.... anyone know much about the US outfit involved OR how many records were involved (100's, 1000's ??? & what period did this arrangement go on till ?) .......

......... is there a track record (sorry !?!?!) for loads of EMI 45's from the likes of Argentina, Finland, Greece, India, Norway & Turkey turning up @ US record fairs ??

...ALSO ... Herb Williams was leaving Capitol to join Peters Int.  THAT wasn't THE Herb Williams was it ??

Edited March 23, 2016 by Roburt

[Roburt]

Seems like it might have been mainly the type of records that aren't of interest to us here ......... BUT this NY outfit went on to have it's own label & to press stuff up for foreign markets (into the late 70's at least ) ................

[Roburt]

See below; the blurb on Swedish EMI releases back in the 60's ....... I guess with 'niche product' it was worth them shipping copies of 'foreign pressed' 45's into the US rather than making some ricids locally ..............

... BUT ... my main reason for posting this message is to say ..... if you're interested in seeing how EMI's cutting room, pressing plant & boxing up operations worked back in the 50's / 60's .... then watch (on catch-up) the BBC4 Arena prog about George Martin ... the prog itself is really interesting if you want to learn how EMI labels operated (in the UK) in the 50's / 60's but the 'background video' used is truly fascinating. The real section of interest to us types is around 7 mins 30 secs in .... 

Edited March 25, 2016 by Roburt

[Kris Holmes]

Decca also did this.  You can find UK press London label LPs in US sleeves from time to time.

[Roburt]

Scans of EMI 45's from some of the countries they used to operate out of ............ 

[Roburt]

Seems that in the summer of 68, EMI's main man in Turkey decided to give a big promotional push to SS7 material in that country. No doubt some of the soul 45's released there would have been pressed up in neighbouring Greece (where EMI had a long established pressing plant in Athens).

Anyone here got any Greece / Turkish (or even Lebanese) EMI related SS7 / Monument 45's from this period ??