Panachord Records

Panachord-78er by Owen Fallon and His Californians: You Didn't Know the Music

Panachord Records was a 1931 sub-label of the Warner-Brunswick Company .

History of the label

Panachord Records was founded in 1931 by Warner-Brunswick as a sub-label for the British and Australian markets; The sibling label for the American market was Melotone Records . The UK division was later taken over by Decca Records until it ceased operations in November 1939. The Panachord label specialized in hillbilly , country and western music ; In addition, some jazz recordings were released, including a. by musicians under pseudonyms like Jack Wynn and his Dallas Dandies (possibly the Original Memphis Five ) and Earl Jacksons's Musical Champions , behind which Chick Webb's band was hiding. Warner Brunswick, Ltd. used for numerous Panachord shellac records Master of the American Melotone label. The Panachord records, which appeared from May 1931 to the end of 1939, had the consecutive numbers 25,000 to 26049.

Panachord has recorded recordings by Benny Goodman ( You Can't Stop Me From Lovin 'You , # 25091), Grace Johnston , Dick Robertson , the Mills Blue Rhythm Band , Art Jarrett , Gene Kardos , Jack Berger , Freddy Martin , Lew Stone and Red Norvo , as well as recordings by the ARC studio bands, with jazz musicians Bunny Berigan , Tommy Dorsey , Bennie Krueger , Eddie Lang , and singers Smith Ballew , Scrappy Lambert , Johnny Mercer and Chick Bullock , as well as dance and entertainment music and the like. a. by Sleepy Hall And His Collegians ( Parkin 'in the Moonlight ; # 25091), Maurice Winnick ( So Ashamed , # 25391 (1932) and God Save The King 1932), August de Laat ( The Lambeth Walk , 1938), Arthur Tracy ( The Street Singer; With Every Breath / June in January , # 25651, My Romance , # 25269 and Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear , # 25602)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stone Collection
2. ^ Frank Hoffmann: Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound. 2004
3. ^ The Talking Machine Review - Issues 25-36, 1973, p. 133.