Those old record labels

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I was just reminiscing about the many old major record labels that used to
be around. Would anybody like to add to the list?

Kapp
Roullette (tommy james and the shondelles)
Decca
Reprise (hendrix)
Rhino
Verve (zappa), not really major.
Atlantic (zep, ray charles)
Vee Jay
Capitol (remember the old beatles 45's w/their orange and yellow)
Chrysalis (tull)
Epic
Mercury
Apple
Parlaphone
MCA
Columbia
CBS
Sun
Stax
RSO (clapton)

 

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Fantasy, Blue Note, Motown?

Seg-Way?

Cameo, Mercury, King, Atco?

Deutsche Grammophon?



D. Brady wrote:

> I was just reminiscing about the many old major record labels that used to
> be around. Would anybody like to add to the list?
>
> Kapp
> Roullette (tommy james and the shondelles)
> Decca
> Reprise (hendrix)
> Rhino
> Verve (zappa), not really major.
> Atlantic (zep, ray charles)
> Vee Jay
> Capitol (remember the old beatles 45's w/their orange and yellow)
> Chrysalis (tull)
> Epic
> Mercury
> Apple
> Parlaphone
> MCA
> Columbia
> CBS
> Sun
> Stax
> RSO (clapton)

 

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"D. Brady" <brady.d@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I was just reminiscing about the many old major record labels that used to
> be around. Would anybody like to add to the list?
>
> Kapp
> Roullette (tommy james and the shondelles)
> Decca
> Reprise (hendrix)
> Rhino
> Verve (zappa), not really major.
> Atlantic (zep, ray charles)
> Vee Jay
> Capitol (remember the old beatles 45's w/their orange and yellow)
> Chrysalis (tull)
> Epic
> Mercury
> Apple
> Parlaphone
> MCA
> Columbia
> CBS
> Sun
> Stax
> RSO (clapton)

Those aren't really *old* record labels; they're middle-aged, dating from
the 1950s and 1960s, and many of them are still active, although owned by
conglomerates now. You want some *old* record labels?

Berliner
Paramount
Challenge
Supertone
OKeh
Odeon
Silvertone
Little Wonder (also the name of a banjo)
Conqueror
Harvard
Oxford
QRS
Grey Gull
Gennett
Perfect
Vocalion
Brunswick (yes, the bowling-ball people)
Banner
Jewel
Oriole
Black Patti
Keen-o-Phone
Melva
Meteor
Climax

Now those are old.

Peace,
Paul

 

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On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:13:18 GMT, "Paul Stamler"
<pstamlerhell@pobox.com> wrote:

>Those aren't really *old* record labels; they're middle-aged, dating from
>the 1950s and 1960s, and many of them are still active, although owned by
>conglomerates now. You want some *old* record labels?
>
>Berliner
>Paramount
>Challenge
>Supertone
>OKeh
>Odeon
>Silvertone
>Little Wonder (also the name of a banjo)
>Conqueror
>Harvard
>Oxford
>QRS
>Grey Gull
>Gennett
>Perfect
>Vocalion
>Brunswick (yes, the bowling-ball people)
>Banner
>Jewel
>Oriole
>Black Patti
>Keen-o-Phone
>Melva
>Meteor
>Climax
>
>Now those are old. <snip>

You forgot the first label to actually use "electrical"
recording...Marsh, 1925.

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On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:46:16 -0500, "D. Brady" <brady.d@comcast.net>
wrote:

>I was just reminiscing about the many old major record labels that used to
>be around. Would anybody like to add to the list?
>
>Kapp
>Roullette (tommy james and the shondelles) <snip>

Roulette was a LOT more than Tommy James.

>Decca
>Reprise (hendrix) <snip>

Reprise was Sinatra. Hendrix was small potatoes for them.

>Rhino
>Verve (zappa), not really major. <snip>

Wrong again. Verve was Norman Granz' fabled jazz line in the '50s,
later bought by M-G-M in the early '60s. Zappa was a distribution
deal that M-G-M really didn't want any part of, so they stuck it on
Verve with the other "odd ball" stuff. M-G-M scored a big hit on
Verve with the Getz-Gilberto LP, off of which came a crossover Top 40
hit, "Girl From Ipanema." That session was an object lesson in "close
micing can be TOO much of a good thing sometimes...." Verve was (is)
a major player in jazz...always has been.

Get back to us when you get some education.

 

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D. Brady wrote:
> I was just reminiscing about the many old major record labels that
used to
> be around. Would anybody like to add to the list?
>
> Kapp
> Roullette (tommy james and the shondelles)
> Decca
> Reprise (hendrix)
> Rhino
> Verve (zappa), not really major.
> Atlantic (zep, ray charles)
> Vee Jay
> Capitol (remember the old beatles 45's w/their orange and yellow)
> Chrysalis (tull)
> Epic
> Mercury
> Apple
> Parlaphone
> MCA
> Columbia
> CBS
> Sun
> Stax
> RSO (clapton)

Buddah Records with many of the "Bubble Gum" hits.

rd

 

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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:22:26 -0800, DeserTBoB <desertb@rglobal.net>
wrote:

>On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:46:16 -0500, "D. Brady" <brady.d@comcast.net>
>wrote:
>
>>I was just reminiscing about the many old major record labels that used to
>>be around. Would anybody like to add to the list?
>>
>>Kapp
>>Roullette (tommy james and the shondelles) <snip>
>
>Roulette was a LOT more than Tommy James.
>
>>Decca
>>Reprise (hendrix) <snip>
>
>Reprise was Sinatra. Hendrix was small potatoes for them.

Huh??? Rock stars like Hendrix and Neil Young sold *far* more records
for Reprise than old blue eyes ever did.

>Get back to us when you get some education.

Sure...

Al

 

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On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:46:16 -0500, "D. Brady" <brady.d@comcast.net>
wrote:
Sun
>Stax
>RSO (clapton)
>
>
>
etc.


-- A trivia question. Why is the Victor's HMV label picture with
Nipper closely hearing a Berliner gramophone a fictional one (ie. it
couldn't happen in reality as a detail on the picture is missing)?

Edi Zubovic, Crikvenica, Croatia

 

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"D. Brady" <brady.d@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<Wc-dnW28U650uZPfRVn-rw@comcast.com>...
> I was just reminiscing about the many old major record labels that used to
> be around. Would anybody like to add to the list?

(small voice) Casablanca?
(Running for the exit)

EM

 

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"D. Brady" <brady.d@comcast.net>
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> I was just reminiscing about the many old major record labels that
> used to be around. Would anybody like to add to the list?
>
> Kapp
> Roullette (tommy james and the shondelles)
> Decca
> Reprise (hendrix)
> Rhino
> Verve (zappa), not really major.
> Atlantic (zep, ray charles)
> Vee Jay
> Capitol (remember the old beatles 45's w/their orange and yellow)
> Chrysalis (tull)
> Epic
> Mercury
> Apple
> Parlaphone
> MCA
> Columbia
> CBS
> Sun
> Stax
> RSO (clapton)
>
>
>
>

How about Nonesuch? Haven't they been around for awhile?

david

 

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> >>Reprise (hendrix) <snip>
> >
> >Reprise was Sinatra. Hendrix was small potatoes for them.
>
> Huh??? Rock stars like Hendrix and Neil Young sold *far* more records
> for Reprise than old blue eyes ever did.
>
> >Get back to us when you get some education.
>
You might want to read "Exploding" by Stan Cronyn. It's a history of Warner
Brothers records (albeit mostly told from the viewpoint of the executives
and their corporate shenanigans), and has a good deal to say about all of
the other companies Warner bought over the years, including Reprise. Reprise
was around long before Hendrix, and was indeed owned by Frank Sinatra. It
wasn't until Warner bought Sinatra out that rock acts were recorded on
Reprise.

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DMA, Inc
Nashville, TN

 

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"david gourley" <davidg.nospam.news@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> How about Nonesuch? Haven't they been around for awhile?

Medium. They started in about 1964, give or take a year or two, as a
subsidiary of Elektra.

Peace,
Paul

 

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"Edi Zubovic" <edi.zubovic[rem this]@ri.htnet.hr> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:46:16 -0500, "D. Brady" <brady.d@comcast.net>
> wrote:
> Sun
>>Stax
>>RSO (clapton)
>>
>>
>>
> etc.
>
>
> -- A trivia question. Why is the Victor's HMV label picture with
> Nipper closely hearing a Berliner gramophone a fictional one (ie. it
> couldn't happen in reality as a detail on the picture is missing)?
>
> Edi Zubovic, Crikvenica, Croatia

The original painting of Nipper which belongs to EMI was hung (and possibly
still does) at the famous Abbey Road Studios, St Johns Wood, NW London,
after which location the Beatles late 60s album is named. I saw it there
around 1974 and this icon is now over a hundred years old (Francis Barraud,
1898).
See http/www.classicrecords.co.uk/guide.htm
The studios are being opened to the public on March 19. See info
http/www.abbeyroad.co.uk/ar_index.php

What sort of detail do you think is missing in the pic?
See British Patent Office's site item
http/www.ukpats.org.uk/tm/notices/markit/issue1/nipper.htm
Jim

 

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>I was just reminiscing about the many old major record >labels that
used to
>be around. Would anybody like to add to the list?


>Kapp
>Roullette (tommy james and the shondelles)
>Decca
>Reprise (hendrix)
>Rhino
>Verve (zappa), not really major.
>Atlantic (zep, ray charles)
>Vee Jay
>Capitol (remember the old beatles 45's w/their orange >and yellow)
>Chrysalis (tull)
>Epic
>Mercury
>Apple
>Parlaphone
>MCA
>Columbia
>CBS
>Sun
>Stax
>RSO (clapton)

Chess.

Joe

 

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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:16:52 GMT, "Jim Gregory"
<jim.greg@ntlworld.com> wrote:
----------------------------8<----------------------
>The original painting of Nipper which belongs to EMI was hung (and possibly
>still does) at the famous Abbey Road Studios, St Johns Wood, NW London,
>after which location the Beatles late 60s album is named. I saw it there
>around 1974 and this icon is now over a hundred years old (Francis Barraud,
>1898).
>See http/www.classicrecords.co.uk/guide.htm
>The studios are being opened to the public on March 19. See info
>http/www.abbeyroad.co.uk/ar_index.php
>
>What sort of detail do you think is missing in the pic?
>See British Patent Office's site item
>http/www.ukpats.org.uk/tm/notices/markit/issue1/nipper.htm
>Jim
>

-- A cranking hand. That Berliner grampophone didn't have any motor
but had to be cranked by hand (about 70 rpm I think) in order to
rotate the turntable. So it has been a direct drive unit <g>. Now, as
no hand that cranks the turntable is painted, Nipper is hearing to
nothing...

We've got here in Rijeka Museum a copy of a Berliner gramophone of
that sort (Design #6?) and it's a little pity they didn't, for
exibition setup purposes, came to an idea to find a
corresponding-sized Nipper statue as that may have been an 3-D
Victrola Logo setup

http/www.muzej-rijeka.hr/carobna-igla/predmeti/gramofon-s-malom-bakrenom.htm

The page is in Croatian only, sorry. It describes the unit and says it
was one of the oldest gramophone found in Croatia till now and it
belonged to the Keglevich family, one of noble and known families at
the time.

{Hey, they say we could now make our own Berliner-like recordings on
an ---lookie!--- CD disc! Oh boy.}
http/www.verycoolthings.com/vct/Neo_getpage.cgi?page=itemtoy.html&itemID=13460&cool


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Edi...
What an amazing revelation about a very important missing detail, the
cranking handle.
This is typical of someone uneducated not bothering to include necessary
engineering items as it looks "good enough".
It's like making a bicycle but without pedals!
But at least Berliner's disc reproduction system won over Edison's wax
cylinders which as far as I know could only be acoustic masters. I was once
offered an Edison phonograph for free in 1968, and declined as I had no
storage space in my small studyroom for it and about 30 cylinders in
cardboard containers. What a foolish person I was!
Did you tell EMI who own the HMV logo about this anomaly yet? I bet they
have got some PR excuse to explain it.
Jim

"Edi Zubovic" <edi.zubovic[rem this]@ri.htnet.hr> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:16:52 GMT, "Jim Gregory"
> <jim.greg@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> ----------------------------8<----------------------
>>The original painting of Nipper which belongs to EMI was hung (and
>>possibly
>>still does) at the famous Abbey Road Studios, St Johns Wood, NW London,
>>after which location the Beatles late 60s album is named. I saw it there
>>around 1974 and this icon is now over a hundred years old (Francis
>>Barraud,
>>1898).
>>See http/www.classicrecords.co.uk/guide.htm
>>The studios are being opened to the public on March 19. See info
>>http/www.abbeyroad.co.uk/ar_index.php
>>
>>What sort of detail do you think is missing in the pic?
>>See British Patent Office's site item
>>http/www.ukpats.org.uk/tm/notices/markit/issue1/nipper.htm
>>Jim
>>
>
> -- A cranking hand. That Berliner grampophone didn't have any motor
> but had to be cranked by hand (about 70 rpm I think) in order to
> rotate the turntable. So it has been a direct drive unit <g>. Now, as
> no hand that cranks the turntable is painted, Nipper is hearing to
> nothing...
>
> We've got here in Rijeka Museum a copy of a Berliner gramophone of
> that sort (Design #6?) and it's a little pity they didn't, for
> exibition setup purposes, came to an idea to find a
> corresponding-sized Nipper statue as that may have been an 3-D
> Victrola Logo setup
>
> http/www.muzej-rijeka.hr/carobna-igla/predmeti/gramofon-s-malom-bakrenom.htm
>
> The page is in Croatian only, sorry. It describes the unit and says it
> was one of the oldest gramophone found in Croatia till now and it
> belonged to the Keglevich family, one of noble and known families at
> the time.
>
> {Hey, they say we could now make our own Berliner-like recordings on
> an ---lookie!--- CD disc! Oh boy.}
> http/www.verycoolthings.com/vct/Neo_getpage.cgi?page=itemtoy.html&itemID=13460&cool
>
>
> Edi Zubovic, Crikvenica, Croatia

 

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In article <l37Rd.1620$E36.1134@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net> jim.greg@ntlworld.com writes:

> What an amazing revelation about a very important missing detail, the
> cranking handle.
> This is typical of someone uneducated not bothering to include necessary
> engineering items as it looks "good enough".
> It's like making a bicycle but without pedals!

Actually, it's about the same as a painting of a bicycle with pedals,
but parked.

Perhaps Nipper had heard his master's voice coming from the horn
before, and was waiting to hear it again as soon as someone cranked
the player. Nobody said he was actually hearing anything at the time
the picture was painted.


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Jim Gregory wrote:

> What an amazing revelation about a very important missing detail, the
> cranking handle.
> This is typical of someone uneducated not bothering to include necessary
> engineering items as it looks "good enough".

Maybe they did it because the dog wouldn't have been willing to turn the
crank.

> It's like making a bicycle but without pedals!

Right, only works for downhill.

> But at least Berliner's disc reproduction system won over Edison's wax
> cylinders which as far as I know could only be acoustic masters. I was once
> offered an Edison phonograph for free in 1968, and declined as I had no
> storage space in my small studyroom for it and about 30 cylinders in
> cardboard containers. What a foolish person I was!

Well, okay, but Scott Dorsey's garage won't fit in your old apartment,
either, so maybe you were right the first time.

> Did you tell EMI who own the HMV logo about this anomaly yet? I bet they
> have got some PR excuse to explain it.

First, you'll have to get them to understand the problem...

BTW, you've been contributing good stuff here. Thanks.

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ha

 

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"Edi Zubovic" <edi.zubovic[rem this]@ri.htnet.hr> wrote in message
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> -- A trivia question. Why is the Victor's HMV label picture with
> Nipper closely hearing a Berliner gramophone a fictional one (ie. it
> couldn't happen in reality as a detail on the picture is missing)?

The gramophone was painted over several times because the artist was
attempting to sell it to different companies. It may well have even been a
cylinder player at one point. The "Dog," as the painting is affectionately
known, has lived in a variety of places over the years. Some friends of mine
actually stole it from the executive offices of the Capitol Tower for a few
days!


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In article <Ki8Rd.49531$Th1.42843@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> olh@hyperback.com writes:

> The gramophone was painted over several times because the artist was
> attempting to sell it to different companies. It may well have even been a
> cylinder player at one point. The "Dog," as the painting is affectionately
> known, has lived in a variety of places over the years. Some friends of mine
> actually stole it from the executive offices of the Capitol Tower for a few
> days!

There used to be a much larger than live sized dog-with-horn statue
visible from the road just a few miles from my home here in Virginia.
I never found out who lived there or why he had that statue, but
eventually the house was sold and torn down, and the statue went.

There was also a large one on the roof of a record distributor on the
road coming into Baltimore from Washington.

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