Bruce, read the story.
Most of the people who have been shafted by Bulmer NEVER DID ANY BUSINESS WITH HIM.

In a nutshell, they recorded for Leader; Leader went bust; DB picked up the bankrupt business for a song; DB perversely didn't bother trading in the material for which he owned the rights.

All sensible contracts with record labels now have a clause explicitly assigning all rights to the artist in the event of the label going bust.
Before then the possibility of such a bizarre scenario hadn't been imagined.

Anahata