The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #88934 Message #3669924
Posted By: GUEST,Fred McCormick
17-Oct-14 - 11:32 AM
Thread Name: Dave Bulmer-related enquiry
Subject: RE: Dave Bulmer-related enquiry
Betsy. I only met DB once, so I can't comment on whether he had his good points or not. In any event, that is irrelevant to the present discussion.
The accusation is that he bought an admittedly small, but nonetheless vitally important catalogue of traditional music and song from Britain, Ireland and the USA and sat on it for the rest of his life. As a result the vast majority has never been reissued.
Here's an incomplete listing of what we wuz robbed of.
For anyone who doesn't know the story, Leader Sound was forced out of business by the oil (and therefore vinyl) shortage of 1973, which means he achieved that astonishing list in just four years. I don't know of any other record company, including Folkways and Topic, who showed such splendid initiative as Leader Sound did.