Also, when they reached 6999, they continued at 7301 (because the early 7000's had been previously allocated as their Race series).Brunswick Phonograph found here at a low price. However, when the series reached 4999, they skipped over the previous allocated 5000's and continued at 6000.

Dakar was first distributed by Atlantic Records, then by Brunswick in 1972 after Brunswick became an independent label.īrunswick started its standard popular series at 2000 and ended up in 1940 at 8517. Davis formed sister label Dakar Records in 1967. Many of the recordings, supervised by producer Carl Davis in Chicago, which established Brunswick as a major force in R&B/soul music in the 1960s and 1970s have been re-issued in recent years. The Brunswick catalog is distributed by E1 Entertainment. The official Brunswick Records web site has a detailed history of the Tarnopol-era Brunswick Records.ġ995 Brunswick was revived by Nat's children Paul and Mara Tarnopol. The Decca-era Brunswick jazz catalog is managed by the Verve Music Group(which is also part of Universal). In 1957, Brunswick became a subsidiary label to Coral. In 1943, Decca revived the Brunswick label.īy 1952, Brunswick was put under the management of Decca's Coral Records subsidiary. was bought by the Columbia Broadcasting System for $750,000, which discontinued the Brunswick label in 1940 in favor of reviving the Columbia label (as well as reviving the OKeh label replacing Vocalion). In 1932, the UK branch of Brunswick was acquired by British Decca. In November 1930 the new budget line Melotone debuted, entering a field of lower priced electrical records including Columbia's Clarion and the various labels of the Plaza Music Company (such as Perfect, Banner, and Romeo).ĭecember 1931: Warners leased the entire Brunswick record operation to Consolidated Film Industries, the parent company of the American Record Corporation (ARC) In April 1930, Brunswick-Balke-Collender sold Brunswick Records to Warner Bros., and the company's headquarters moved to New York. In late 1924, Brunswick acquired the Vocalion Records label. In 1923 Brunswick Records were introduced into Britain under the name Brunswick Cliftophone.

In January 1920, a new line of Brunswick Records were introduced in the US and Canada that employed the lateral cut system that was then becoming the default cut for 78 disc records. They were recorded in the US but sold only in Canada. These first Brunswick Records used the vertical cut system like Edison Disc Records, and were not sold in large numbers. The company first began producing phonographs in 1916, then began marketing their own line of records as an after-thought. Records under the Brunswick label were first produced by the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company. The label nowadays is distributed by E1 Entertainment. Brunswick Records is a United States based record label est.

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