OrthoSean wrote:
Columbia certainly did issue Odeon Tauber recordings (as did Decca later on with Odeon and Parlophone issues). I've got several, some pressings actually say "Odeon Recording" very blatantly on the label, although I believe this practice was rather short lived. I'm really not aware of any good online info for Columbia issues of that era, though, but someone else may be.
Sean
Odeon and OKeh were twins, and when Columbia acquired OKeh here in the USA I'm pretty sure Odeon was not part of the deal.
Later Odeon originals show up here in USA on Decca if I am not mistaken. Or was it Capitol? I think it was Capitol in the early LP era but was Decca before that. Odeon and Parlophone were joined at the hip for quite a long time too, it seems. I had early Beatles recordings on Parlophone from the UK as a kid along with a couple Dutch issues that were Odeons.
Lots of even seasoned collectors are not aware that there were USA pressed Parlophone and Odeon records in the late 20s- early 30s. They are rare. They look like OKehs and usually have alternate takes of contemporaneous OKeh issues under pseudonyms... but also sometimes under the correct names.
It's difficult to keep straight, even for a geek.