Harmony Records
Harmony Records was a sub-label of the US major label Columbia Records .
At Columbia , Harmony Records was created in the mid-1920s, a so-called budget label. The song material used by Harmony was largely identical to that of the two other Columbia low-cost labels Velvet Tone Records and Diva Records . Published on the label from 1925 to 1932 a. a. Recordings from the fields of old-time and country , dance music , blues and early jazz by Arthur Fields , Andy Razaf , Frank Ferera , Irving Kaufman , Mal Hallett , Phil Napoleon , Al Bernard , Jane Gray , Lou Gold , Vernon Dalhart , Rudy Vallée , Sammy Fain , Sam Lanin , Kate Smith , The Georgia Cotton Pickers , Frank Auburn , Irving Brodsky , Bert Lown , Original Indiana Five , Honey Swamp Stompers, and the Boswell Sisters . Recordings of some artists were published under pseudonyms such as Annette Hanshaw (aka "Patsy Young" or "Gay Ellis"), Ben Selvin (aka "Buddy Campbell"), Ernie Hare (aka "Hobo" Jack Turner) or Rex Cole (aka "Buck Wilson").
In 1949 the label was briefly reactivated; There were re-releases and new recordings a. a. by The Mills Brothers , Bing Crosby , Al Jolson / Guy Lombardo , Johnny Mercer , Benny Goodman , Artie Shaw , Victoria Spivey , Russ Morgan , Phil Harris , Larry Adler , Claude Thornhill , Leo Reisman , Sammy Kaye , Pearl Bailey , Rosemary Clooney , Eddy Duchin , Bob Crosby , Billie Holiday , Charlie Spivak , Bessie Smith , Hot Lips Page , Lonnie Johnson and Horace Heidt .