United Hebrew Disc and Cylinder Company
The United Hebrew Disc and Cylinder Company, sometimes abbreviated as UHD&C, was an American record label who made about 150 records of only Jewish-Hebrew nature beginning in 1904 with last known recording taking place in 1906.[1][2]
History
UHD&C was formed by Pierre Long and managed by H.W. Perlman.[2] It was incorporated in Brooklyn, New York in 1904 with a capitalization of $20,000.[3] It was an outgrowth of Perlman's piano manufacturing business and operated out of the same building that built pianos.[2] The recordings were dubbed from master cylinders to disc in a crude process that made for noisy, audibly inferior recordings.[2] Discs by the United Hebrew Disc and Cylinder Company were pressed by at least two companies, the International Record Company and Leeds & Catlin.[4] Most of UHD&C's promotional activity took place between January and November 1905.[5] Facing intense competition from much larger companies for the Jewish record market and with an inferior product, UHD&C folded by the end of 1906.[6] Nevertheless, the company holds its place in history as the first ethnically owned and operated producer of recorded sound in America.[2]
Output
United Hebrew Disc and Cylinder Company's first issued record was a recording pirated from
Artist | Title | Cat Number |
---|---|---|
Rosinkes Mit Mandlen | Kalman Juvelier | 1003 |
Ribone Scheil Ojlem | Cantor A. Minkowsky | 1064 |
References
- ^ ISBN 0-252-01718-8.
- ^ ISBN 9780857125057– via Google Books.
- ^ "Corporations". The Brooklyn Citizen. Brooklyn, New York. July 8, 1904. p. 7 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Sutton, Allan (2021). The International Record Company Discography (PDF) (2 ed.). Mainspring Press. p. 13.
- ISBN 9781135949501.
- ^ Sapoznik, Henry (1988). "From Eastern Europe to East Broadway: Yiddish Music in Old World and New" (PDF). New York Folklore. Vol. 14, no. 3–4. p. 122.
- ISBN 0-8444-0339-3– via Google Books.
- ^ Miller, Malcolm (2001). The Accordion in All Its Guises. Harwood Academic Publishers. p. 137.
See also
- List of record labels