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 fledgling label first issued single-sided. vertical cut disc records, soon switching to double sided, then switching to the more common lateral cut system in 1920. Vocalion pressed their discs in a go... more
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