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| | Gennett Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Gennett records was founded in Richmond, Indiana by the Starr Piano Company, and released its first records in October of 1917. | | | Gennett began recordings using the electric microphone process in February of 1927. | | | Gennett label is best remembered to day for the wealth of early jazz talent recorded on the label, including sessions by Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, The New Orleans Rhythm Kings, "King" Joe Oliver's band with young Louis Armstrong, Hoagy Carmichael, The Original New Orleans Jazz Band, and many others. |
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| | Stardust (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | "Stardust" was composed and first recorded for Gennett Records by Hoagy Carmichael's band in 1927 as a peppy jazz number. | | | It is one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century. | | | Bandleader Isham Jones, however, recorded Carmichael's new arrangement of "Stardust" which became the first of many hit records of the tune. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust_(song)
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| | Challenge Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Challenge Records was a record label put out by the Sears-Roebuck Company. | | | There was a second Challenge Records that was founded in the late 50's by cowboy singer Gene Autry and former Columbia A and R represenitive Joe Johnson. | | | This article about a record label is a stub. |
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| | Dumont Maps and Books --Catalogue #75 Pamphlets |
| | Gennett was possibly the first commercial record company to release ethnic music discs. | | | Walter Fewkes to record the Hopi discs at the El Tovar Hotel at the Grand Canyon, where elders of the tribe were invited to come and record their traditional songs. | | | Gennett Records was founded in 1917 and is best known to collectors for the wealth of early jazz talent recorded on the label, including sessions by Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, The New Orleans Rhythm Kings, "King" Joe Oliver's band with young Louis Armstrong, Hoagy Carmichael, and many others. |
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| | Henry Gennett (soft G, second syllable accented), of the Starr Piano Company, first recorded and pressed records with the "Gennett" label in the mid teens to complement a line of phonographs also manufactured and sold by Starr. | | | In overview it is a book about the fast-moving music and recording industries of the twenties, when "new" kinds of music were being recorded and sold to people who had never heard them before, and that is some neat story. | | | The depression killed Gennett records and almost killed Starr Piano. |
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| | Gennett's Page Two |
| | Many of their Gennett recordings are now available on CD, with more to be issued in the future. | | | A second recording studio was set up in a one story shed situated in a row of Starr factory buildings along the railroad tracks that ran through the complex. | | | Sound effects records were a big source of income and comedy records were common. |
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http://www.jazzadvocate.com/gennett/gennett_page2.htm
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| | Starr Piano Company - Gennett Records |
| | At first the records carried the Starr label, but the brand name was changed to Gennett in 1918 because some of the company’s piano competitors would not sell records with the Starr name. | | | They also recorded political speeches, and in 1928 began making sound effects records for movies and radio programs. | | | Fifty-two styles of pianos were being made, and company president, Henry Gennett, was optimistic about one of their newer products, the player pianos. |
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| | The Cradle of Recorded Jazz - Gennett and The Starr Piano Company |
| | Recordings Often Stopped as Trains Pass By Of the many exploits of Gennett, none was so noteworthy or important as the music recorded at the Gennett recording department. | | | A list of famous names who recorded for Gennett, in Richmond and at their studio in New York, is a long one. | | | He made religious recordings under the name of Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey; for pop recordings, his name was Thomas Dorsey, and for Jug Bands, it was Georgia Tom. |
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| | By 1920 Starr Piano was producing 15,000 pianos, 3,000 phonographs, and 3,000,000 records. | | | With the breakup of the Gannett Family came the demise of Gannett Records and Starr Piano. | | | The 1920s were the peak years for Gennett Records pressing discs from symphonies, to speeches, to sacred choirs. |
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| | Defunct Record Labels - audiotools.com. |
| | Functioned as a small to mid sized record label from the 50's mostly putting out classical and jazz records but some popular music as well, these were noted at the time for their recording quality. | | | A label called Balkan Records appropriately enough specialises in re-releasing cassettes and CD's with material taken from old recordings by this label. | | | Many of their records featured an in-house orchestra known as Dave Zupkovich Balkan Records Orchestra (that also toured under this name) and the label was incredibly prolific in and around 1950 when literally hundreds of 78's were cut, but seems to have disappeared in the mid fifties, but apparently Mr. |
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| | The New Orleans Rhythm Kings -- a band history |
| | One of the brand new electric recording devices was brought to town-- all the band's previous records were made by the old pre-microphone acoustic recording process. | | | Possibly the earliest "racially mixed" jazz recording session was the 1918 debut of the "Original New Orleans Jazz Band"; other sessions predating the Rhythm Kings include 1921 sides where Black New Orleans pianist/vocalist/composer Clarence Williams recorded with a band of White New York jazz musicians. | | | According to Paul Mares, "We were so anxious to record that we took the first offer to come along and beat all the rest of the bands by recording for Gennett. |
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| | guy lombardo and his first recording on gennett |
| | While it was never a major recording force, it did debut some of the most influential musicians of the 20th century on to record. | | | Gennett Records, located in Richmond, Indiana was one of the most intriguing labels in American history. | | | But the Gennett records did produce an interesting nugget of Canadian trivia. |
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http://www.dotydocs.com/Archives/lombardo/gennet.htm
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| | Homer Rodeheaver, Pioneer of Sacred Records |
| | His most recorded song was "Brighten The Corner Where You Are." It was Sunday and Rodeheaver's theme song, and Rodeheaver recorded it for at least 17 different labels. | | | All were from Gennett matrixes and are acoustical. | | | Music evangelist and gospel singer Homer Rodeheaver was the most prolific recorder of sacred songs in the acoustical recording era, singing before the recording horn of most major companies. |
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| | Starr Piano Factory |
| | The Gennett Records Division of Starr Piano recorded artists of early jazz, blues, and country. | | | Because these were new music forms in the 1920s the large record companies did not record them at all, so the records produced during this time constitute the earliest recorded examples of these forms. | | | Declining record sales and the Depression ended Gennett Records, and the Starr name continued for a few more years making radio cabinets and refrigerators. |
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http://www.mrl.lib.in.us/history/lostrichmond/starrpiano.htm
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| | The Ginn & Company Music Appreciation 78-rpm records |
| | The Gennett series was recorded acoustically, under the direction of Henry Hadley, and members of his New York Philharmonic Orchestra appeared anonymously on many issues. | | | The records were keyed to a Ginn teachers' manual, Music Appreciation in the Schoolroom. | | | Teachers were instructed to play Ethel Barnes' "Swing Song" and watch their students' reaction: "If during the playing of the record the class, or the greater part of the class, show by their expression that they enjoy it, this indicates that they take pleasure in the charm of the music as a whole... |
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| | Starr Gennett Foundation, Inc., |
| | Gennett also recorded ethnic music, Tin Pan Alley-style popular songs, classical music, sound effects, and even famous speeches. | | | Once headquartered in Richmond, Indiana, the Starr Piano Company launched a recording division in 1915 that recorded, manufactured, and distributed 78 rpm phonograph records, the majority of which featured the company’s Gennett record label. | | | The Starr-Gennett Foundation is dedicated to preserving and promoting the legacy of Gennett Records and its parent organization, the Starr Piano Company. |
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| | The Compo Company |
| | Pathé did not use electrical recording until 1927, and many of the 1926 sides were in fact recorded in Compo's New York studios and issued simultaneously on Pathé and the Compo labels, since Compo had been using electrical recording since 1925. | | | The first releases were recorded by Max Boag, who had previously cut a number of waltz records for use in skating rinks; they appeared under the "nom de disque" of Harry Glenn. | | | This produced a number of records highly valued by collectors, but no particular success, and the records were being remaindered by mid 1925. |
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| | Record executives, who had originally insisted in the early 1920s that radio could never become a substitute for recorded music, were increasingly whoring after the thriving medium. | | | Records bearing the imprint of the Deluxe Music Sbop have been discovered in rural Misissippi indicating that Johnson had a mail-order sideline. | | | The unsold records were taken as an omen that the "race" record business was finished. |
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| | JELLY ROLL MORTON - CHICAGO AND NEW YORK |
| | The Orthophonic Victrola phonograph was capable of playing back acoustically recorded and the new electrically recorded discs. | | | The first record of his orchestra will be released on Okeh records within a short time. | | | They are largely responsible for these musicians and their orchestras recording for the Victor Phonograph company. |
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| | Gennett's Home Page |
| | Richmond, Indiana’s historic Starr Piano Company recorded, pressed, and distributed some of the best early jazz, blues, old-time country, and gospel records in the 1920s and 30s on Gennett and other labels. | | | In 1918 the label was changed to Gennett Records. | | | Our collection of recordings contains a good sampling of the wide musical variety on Gennett and related labels like Champion and Starr, and now we’ll be better able to share this historic music with the public. |
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| | JAZZ INFORMATION |
| | Coleman Hawkins' second record has been released, and again we are compelled to report that his improvisations on the slow turns are sterile and meaningless, and his tone on the fast side forced and unpleasant. | | | He recorded with his violin, and loved it. | | | Five rare Beiderbeckes, repressed from Gennett originals, will be released this week by the Hot Record Society in an album titled: "Young Man With A Horn; Bix and the Wolverines". |
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| | Joe Davis and Gennett Records |
| | Joe may have continued to press records at the Gennett factory, but he soon chose to lease his masters to the MGM label, which did not frequently use the Varsity masters. | | | Joe made important recordings by modern jazz pianist Elmo Hope, but his main business was releasing “party” records that were inescapably displayed in the windows of stores in Times Square. | | | Joe had masters, Gennett had shellac, and during that time period, if you could press a record, the record sold. |
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http://www.starrgennett.org/stories/articles/joe_davis_gennett.htm
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| | Bailey's Lucky Seven |
| | They also in another incarnation that recorded under the name of Ladd’s Black Aces to assist in their appeal and promotion in the race music market; again the name is misleading, as no one named Ladd was in the all-white ensemble. | | | The Original Dixie Land Jazz Band was the first jazz recording ever released and it was a hit, “Livery Stable Blues,” in 1917, selling over 250,000 recordings in the first year (approximately 5 times the amount the biggest recording star at the time, Enrico Caruso, ever sold!). | | | Also the Starr Gennett Foundation has been formed to preserve the recordings and history of this label. |
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http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1028
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| | Paramount (Wisconsin) Album Discography |
| | The first recordings by Patton were actually made in the Richmond, Indiana studio of Gennett Records, because the recording studio Paramount was constructing in Grafton, Wisconsin in 1929 was not finished. | | | Patton's recordings were released on Paramount, and are now some of the rarest and most expensive 78rpm recordings in the collector's market. | | | The first black artist Paramount recorded, at it's New York Recording Laboratory, was Alberta Hunter in mid-1922. |
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| | Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy |
| | "Delightful history of Gennett Records, its parent the Starr Piano Company of Richmond, Indiana, in the 1920s, and the birth of recorded jazz. | | | Gennett Studios and the Birth of Recorded Jazz | | | he Gennett Studio recorded some of the earliest performances of jazz, blues, and country greats—including Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Gene Autry, Bix Beiderbecke, and native Hoosier Hoagy Carmichael (whose "Stardust" debuted on Gennett as a dance stomp). |
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| | Informative Links for additional Starr-Gennett Information |
| | Wolfe is the author of Gennett and Early Country Music on the Foundation’s site. | | | Early Croatian Tamburitza musician who recorded for Gennett’s custom “Jugoslavia” label. | | | The WAMS was formed for the promotion, preservation, and proliferation of music originally recorded using analog means at 78 rpm. |
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| | Richmond / Wayne County, Indiana |
| | The Gennett Records branch of the now-defunct Starr Piano Company is well-known for its groundbreaking recordings of numerous jazz pioneers like Louis Armstrong, Hoagy Carmichael, Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington. | | | Fiddlin’ Doc Robert, Gene Autry and Ernest Stoneman made essential contributions on the Gennett label to a nascent form of country music known today as old-time music. | | | Once located on the banks of the Whitewater River in the center of Richmond, Gennett Records also recorded many pioneers in other styles of American music. |
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| | Area news briefs |
| | He will speak about the importance of the Gennett Record Label, which released many early jazz, blues and country albums as an independent label in the early 20th century. | | | Dahan has taught at SUCO in the music industry program since 2001, is a two-time Grammy-nominated producer and co-founder of Larchmont Records. | | | The ARSC grant program encourages the preservation of sound recording to help pique public interest and understanding of recorded sound, officials said. |
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| | New Books That I Have Published! |
| | A pre-electric method for recording was used, with musicians performing into a horn, not a microphone. | | | This is the ONLY book that covers artists who, from the 1890s to the mid-1920s, made records of music that was "popular" in nature, as opposed to records of operatic arias, symphonic works, or concert pieces. | | | A lifelong collector of old 78s, Olson has spent decades studying country music on 78 rpm discs that were issued in the 1920s and 1930s (he has studied primary sources, such as company studio logs when they exist, and has been in contact with hundreds of other collectors). |
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| | Grateful Dead Family Discography: Source Books |
| | Country Music Recorded Prior To 1943: A Discography Of LP Reissues, Willie Smyth, 1984 | | | This is particularly true of the information included on song pages concerning recordings of songs and the origins of songs. | | | Follow the Music: The Life and High Times of Elektra Records, Jac Holzman, 2000 |
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| | ezFolk Media Store |
| | Music / Sunshine on Your Back Porch:Celebration of Gennett Records | | | Sunshine on Your Back Porch:Celebration of Gennett Records |
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| | Charlie B. Dahan - Music Department |
| | My involvement on Shanachie recordings included signing the artist, negotiating the contract(s), selecting songs and arrangements, hiring producers and studios, supervising recording and mixing, and approving the master as commercially and technically satisfactory. | | | 3/05– Various Artists “Sunshine on Your Back Porch: A Celebration of Gennett Records” featuring Randy Brecker, Duke Robillard, Cindy Cashdollar, Melissa Ferrick, Deanna Bogart, Langhorne Slim, The Hellhounds, Jenny O and others. | | | 9/03 – The Catskill Klezmorim “The Well-Tempered Klezmir” on Divine Noise Records |
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| | Gennett Records LinksBody |
| | This CD has some Gennett recordings of Lad's Black Aces and Husk O'Hares Super Orchestra of Chicago | | | Concordia has a collection of Gennett stuff if you want to hit Montreal. | | | Blues World talks about blues and HC Speir, who also recorded in Richmond. |
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| | MAINSPRING PRESS RECORD LABEL GALLERY |
| | In the field of popular music, it's hard to imagine how the encyclopedia could be any more thorough. | | | A CD-ROM provides provides the reader with full color images of the record labels. | | | This cyber-age tool is excellently prepared and easy to use." |
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| | GENNETT family history and genealogy information .. Gennett ancestry links |
| | - Meanwhile, we also suggest these family search pages for Gennett surname research | | | genealogy software and family history research database for the Gennett name will likely be included in the updates along with an automated form to submit data for Gennett family history.. | | | this will be useful if you are searching for online listings for the Gennett surname from historical perspectives.. |
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