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Side 1(above): One Golden Curl; I'm Gonna Tear Down the Mailbox
Wilf Carter   45rpm record   Decca ED-2204
EP (Extended Play, two songs on each side)
Side 2 (below): I Bought a Rock for a Rocky Mountain Gal; The Alpine Milkman

Library stock number A072

Side One Matrix S-2348

Side Two Matrix S-2349

(above): Jacket front
Montana Slim   45rpm record   Decca ED-2204
(below): Jacket back

Jacket: Montana Slim     Label: Wilf Carter

Compo Company

The Compo Company was founded in Lachine, Quebec, late in 1918 by Herbert S. Berliner, then vice-president and general manager of the Berliner Gram-O-Phone Company. Compo operated the first independent Canadian disc-pressing plant. Only two Canadian record companies survived the 1929-1939 economic crash and depression – RCA Victor of Canada and Compo.

In 1950 Herbert Berliner sold Compo to Decca(US). Decca sold it to MCA Records in 1963. The Compo labels remained on the market until 1971. The Lachine pressing plant ceased production in the early 1970s.

The Compo Company by Steven C. Barr
Compo Company Limited The Virtual Gramophone
Compo Company Archive at the National Library of Canada

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