Velvet Tone Records

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78s by Velvet Tone with Bert Lown & His Loungers: Here Comes My Ball and Chain (1929)

Velvet Tone was a sub-label of the US major label Columbia Records .

After Columbia had already marketed unbreakable records under the name Marconi velvet-tone records in 1906, a so-called budget label was created in the mid-1920s with Velvet Tone . The song material used by Velvet Tone was identical to that of the other two Columbia low-cost labels Harmony 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 Frank Auburn , Chick Bullock , Rex Cole's Mountaineers , Frank Ferera , Annette Hanshaw , Katherine Henderson , Sam Lanin , Webster Moore & His High Hatters, Carson Robison , Kate Smith , Roy Keating , Paul Specht , Ernest Thompson, and Rudy Vallee .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Gary Marmorstein: The Label: The Story of Columbia Records . Thunder's Mouth Press, Feb 27, 2007.
  2. ↑ Portrait at Redhotjazz
  3. ↑ discography
  4. ↑ Velvet Tone Records at Discogs