Bronze Records (US label)

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Bronze Records was an American record label from the 1940s.

The independent Bronze Recording Company was founded by John Levy around 1939 and was taken over shortly thereafter by Leroy Hurte, a former singer of the vocal ensemble The Four Blackbirds . The label was based in Hurtes record store on 623 East Vernon Avenue in Los Angeles.

Rhythm & blues , jazz , blues and gospel music, etc. appeared on the bronze label . a. Recordings of the blues singer Gladys Bentley (1940), and the gospel group The Five Soul Stirrers ("Fredom After Awhile"), gospel music by the Arthur Peters Trio ("It Is Thy Servant's Prayer - Amen", Bronze # 115) or the Southern Gospel Singers ("I Need Jesus on My Journey" / "Anyhow") and children's music.

Hurte recorded two of the most influential R&B songs of the 1940s on his label, Joe Liggins ' " The Honeydripper " and Cecil Gant's "I Wonder" (1944), one of the earliest post-war blues hits. The label existed until the late 1940s.

Leroy Hurtes bronze label was one of the independent labels that was established on the west coast of the early 1940s with Melodisc from Daniel O'Brien, the Modern label from Joe, Jules and Saul Bihari, and Philo Records from Ed and Leo Mesner USA originated.

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  1. ^ A b Allan Sutton, Kurt R. Nauck American Record Labels and Companies: an Encyclopedia. 2000, page 27.
  2. ↑ Larry Birnbaum: Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll . 2013, page 238.
  3. ↑ Leroy Edward Hurte (born May 2, 1915 in Muskogee , Oklahoma ). See Edward Komara, Peter Lee: The Blues Encyclopedia . 2004, page 149.
  4. ↑ Jennifer Niven: American Blonde: A Novel . 2014.
  5. ^ A b Paul Oliver Yonder Come the Blues: The Evolution of a Genre . 2001, page 339.
  6. ↑ Steven L. Isoardi: The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles , 2006, p. 25.
  7. ^ Robert M Marovich: A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music . 2015. p. 142.
  8. ^ Living Blues , issues 149–154. Center for the Study of Southern Culture, The University of Mississippi, 2000
  9. ↑ John Broven: Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers , 2009, p. 38
  10. ↑ Nick Tosches Héros oubliés du rock'n'roll: les années sauvages du rock . 2000, page 21