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Thread #67612 Message #1131776
Posted By: Stewie
08-Mar-04 - 06:27 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Charleston Merchant
Subject: RE: Origins: The Charleston Merchant
I found the answer to my question above. Bulmer does own the rights to the Transatlantic issues (11 in toto). They are referred to in the quote below as 'Trailer', but the sleeves of the two that I have handy have 'The Leader Tradition'.
Bandoggs, From The Devil To A Stranger, etc., and other early albums were released by Trailer, which was owned by Bill Leader. (Hence also the 'Leader' brand of albums from that period).
But Transatlantic were the distributors for Trailer and for about 11 records – 'Trailer' records were recorded on Transatlantic with the catalogue number beginning LTRA. The copyrights stayed with Trailer.
When Trailer went bust, the copyrights passed to Highway Records. Highway actually re-issued a select few of the recordings (Bandoggs,Nic Jones etc) before they too either went under or sold up. Celtic Music then bought the rights to the entire 'Trailer-Leader' back catalogue and the rest we know about — The music was sentenced to life imprisonment in dusty vaults or possibly even burnt at the stake.
The above is from THIS PAGE
--Stewie.