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Big Bill Broonzy
Big Bill Broonzy (26 June 1898 – 14 August 1958) was a prolific African American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s when he played Country blues to mostly black audiences. Through the ‘30s and ‘40s he successfully navigated a transition in style to a more urban...
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CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. (CBS) is a major American television network. CBS started out as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the Eye...
Gennett Records
Gennett (pronounced with a soft G) was a United States based record label which flourished in the 1920s.
Gennett records was founded in Richmond, Indiana by the Starr Piano Company, and released its first records in October 1917. Earlier, the...
Paramount Records
Paramount Records was an American record label, best known for its recordings of African-American jazz and blues in the 1920s and early 1930s, including such artists as Ma Rainey and Blind Lemon Jefferson.
Paramount Records was founded in the 1910s...
Vocalion Records
Vocalion Records was a record label active for many years in the United States and in the United Kingdom.
Vocalion was founded in 1916 by the Aeolian Piano Company of New York City, which introduced a retail line of phonographs at the same time. The...
American Record Corporation
The American Record Corporation, often known as ARC Records or simply ARC, was a United States based record company. It resulted from the merger in July 1929 of Regal Records, Cameo Records, Banner Records, the US branch of Pathé Records and the...
Bluebird Records
Bluebird Records is a sub-label of RCA Victor Records originally created in 1932 to counter the American Record Company in the "3 records for a dollar" market. Along with ARC's Perfect Records, Melotone Records and Romeo Records, and the independent...
Folkways Records
Folkways Records is a record label that documents folk and world music. It is now owned by the Smithsonian Institution.
The Folkways Records & Service Co. was founded by Moses Asch and Marian Distler in 1948 in New York City. Asch sought to record...
