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- Brunswick Records is an American record label founded in 1916.
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History. 1916–1929. Records under the Brunswick label were first produced by the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, a company based in Dubuque, Iowa which had been manufacturing products ranging from pianos to sporting equipment since 1845.
On September 30th, 1960, convinced that Tarnopol was halfway out the door to start his own record label with Wilson right behind him, Decca agreed to make Brunswick a sovereign record company owned in partnership by Decca and a production company owned by Tarnopol and Wilson.
The first Brunswick records distributed in the United States were not released until January 1920. These (and all subsequent Brunswick records) were lateral-cut recordings. Despite Brunswick's late entry into the record business, the label was highly successful and within three years it was firmly among the majors in terms of sales.
Brunswick Corporate History. Brunswick Records: A Discography of Recordings, 1916-1931, compiled by Ross Laird. The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. was established in Chicago in 1845 as a manufacturer of a wide variety of products including furniture, piano cases, carriages and bowling balls.
Brunswick did not commence electric recording from a specific date, but rather seems to have experimented with electric recording throughout April and early May 1925. Some sessions during this period were recorded electrically, while other sessions continued to be made as acoustic recordings.
May 31, 2022 · Why Brunswick’s Recording Technology was Top of the Line at the Time. Haenschen also related much about the technology of the time – particularly how, in 1919, Brunswick had to use a completely different recording system to that of the Victor Company, as Victor’s recording system was under patent.
This discography documents the full range of Brunswick label recordings through 1931, when the American Record Corporation purchased the label. The data includes affiliated or subsidiary labels such as Vocalion and Melotone.
