Vocalion Records

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Vocalion Records
1921 Vocalion label
1921 Vocalion label
Founded1916 (1916)
FounderAeolian Piano Company
GenreJazz
Country of originUS, UK

Vocalion Records is an American record label, originally founded by the Aeolian Company, a piano and organ manufacturer before being bought out by Brunswick in 1924.

History

The label was founded in 1916 by the

African Americans.[1] Jim Jackson recorded "Jim Jackson's Kansas City Blues" for Vocalion in 1927.[2] It sold exceptionally well, and the song became a blues standard for musicians from Memphis and Mississippi.[2] The label issued Robert Johnson's "Cross Road Blues"[3]

Vocalion record by Louis Armstrong

Vocalion was one of the most popular labels in the late 1930s. However, Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) bought American Record Corporation (which operated the Vocalion label) in 1938, and in July 1940 they discontinued Vocalion, replacing it with the Okeh label.[4]

The name Vocalion was resurrected in the late 1950s by American Decca as a budget label for back-catalog reissues. This incarnation of Vocalion ceased operations in 1973; however, its replacement as MCA's budget imprint, Coral Records, kept many Vocalion titles in print. In 1975, MCA reissued five albums on the Vocalion label.[5]

References

  1. ^ "First releases of Vocalion race records on market". The Talking Machine World. June 15, 1926. Archived from the original on February 8, 2007 – via The Blues Album.
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  4. ^ Sutton, Allan; Nauck, Kurt (2000). American Record Labels and Companies: An Encyclopedia (1891-1943). Mainspring. p. 226.
  5. ^ "Vocalion Album Discography". Bsnpubs.com. 2014-04-27. Retrieved 2014-08-04.

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