Majestic Records
Majestic Records was an American record label of the 1940s in the fields of country music , rockabilly , popular music , jazz, and rhythm and blues .
Majestic Records had great success with shellac records by jazz and dance bands in the 1940s, but ran into financial difficulties in 1948 and had to cease operations. The label's managing director was Jimmy Walker. The label's catalog included recordings of popular music by Jimmy Durante and Eddie Jackson , Louis Prima , Slim Bryant , Eddy Howard , Eric Madriguera , The Four Shades of Rhythm , The Four Suns , George Olsen , George Paxton, Ray McKinley , The Jones Brothers , Jerry Wald , Ella Logan , Jan Peerce , Jane Froman, Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage , The Merry Macs and Bob Johnston . Majestic also released jazz and rhythm and blues records by Bud Freeman , Johnny Guarnieri , Jimmy Lunceford , Thelma Carpenter ( "Harlem on My Mind" ), Mildred Bailey , Slim Gaillard ( "Flat Foot Floogie" 1945, with Charlie Parker ) and Cootie Williams ( " I Can't Get Started " ).
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- ↑ For the history of the label cf. Götz Alsmann: Nothing but noise. The Independent Record Companies and the Development of American Popular Music 1943-1963 . Drensteinfurt: Huba, 1985 pp. 74-76