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Columbia Graphophone Recordings (Non-US)

Label / Number

Artist

Title

Columbia 2087

Haim Effendi

El dantista moderno (diálogo kómiko)

Columbia 2087

Haim Effendi

Rinya konyugal (diálogo kómiko)

Columbia 2848

Haim Effendi

Karnisería modelo (diálogo kómiko)

Columbia 2848

Haim Effendi

Abaso las faldas (monologo)

Columbia 3850

Haim Effendi

A granada

Columbia 3850

Haim Effendi

Tarantaz nwevas

Columbia 13433

Haim Effendi

Et Chare Rasson

Columbia 13433

Haim Effendi

Israel Avadeha

Columbia 13434

Haim Effendi

Marche Sioniste Kol Hod Baleva

Columbia 12275

Algazi, Isaac

Avinou Malkenou

Columbia 12275

Algazi, Isaac

Kamti

Columbia 12276

Algazi, Isaac

Al Dio alto

Columbia 12276

Algazi, Isaac

Ay Mansévo

Columbia 12277

Algazi, Isaac

Quando los Riccos

Columbia 12277

Algazi, Isaac

Ditcho me avian

Columbia 12278

Algazi, Isaac

Ayom Arad Olam

Columbia 12278

Algazi, Isaac

Aben Yakir li Efraďm

Columbia 12279

Algazi, Isaac

Kidousch

Columbia 12279

Algazi, Isaac

Petiha Allela Chem

Columbia 12280

Algazi, Isaac

Yessav a El

Columbia 12280

Algazi, Isaac

Ana Ke Av Zedoni

Columbia 12281

Algazi, Isaac

Imafes

Columbia 12281

Algazi, Isaac

Livriteha Schohem Zevoul

Columbia 1-55066

Algazi, Isaac

Alma mia

Columbia 1-59087

Algazi, Isaac

Cantica de achoughar

Columbia D 8593

Della Pergola, Alberto

Vesameru

Columbia D 8593

Della Pergola, Alberto

Eleenu

Columbia Recordings (US)

Label / Number

Artist

Title

Columbia 8250-F

Zfirah, Bracha

I have a garden

Columbia 8254-F

Zefira, Bracha

Ein Adir

Columbia 78000-F

Stamboul Quartette

Avino Malqueno

Columbia 78000-F

Stamboul Quartette

Vayered Ashem

Columbia 78001-F

Stamboul Quartette

Bezohri

Columbia 78001-F

Stamboul Quartette

Ayom Arad Olam

Columbia 4199-M

Zfirah, Bracha

I have a garden

History

Columbia Records in the United States was a separate entity from Columbia Graphophone Recordings (UK.) The only Sephardic recordings it released were by the Stamboul Quartette in 1925 and by the Israeli Yemenite singer Bracha Zefira in the 1930s and 1940s.

The Columbia Graphophone Company was similarly a late-comer to the Sephardic market. The Blumenthal brothers sold the Orfeon label to Columbia Graphophone in 1925. A year later, Odeon and other Lindström labels were acquired.  (Gronow, 1981) By this point Columbia owned the Orfeon, Odeon, and Favorite labels.

The first Sephardic recordings actually issued on the Columbia label were recorded in 1927 by Haim Effendi and Isaac Algazi. After 1930, European Odeon matrices appeared for several years on Columbia. For example, at least one Favorite Sephardic recording was re-issued on the Columbia label.

When Columbia and Gramophone merged in 1931 to become EMI, the Gramophone agents "were chosen to continue representing the company. Columbia's old agents, Blumenthal Frčres, were unceremoniously dropped." (Vernon, Paul, "Empire State", http://www.bolingo.org/audio/texts/fr167empire.html, Accessed October 6, 2008.)

Advertisements and Catalogs

1925, United States

Source: La Vara, 11 December 1925

1928, Egypt and the Sudan

Source: Hugo Strötbaum.

Undated Turkish catalog (ca. 1927)

Source: Hugo Strötbaum.

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