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ColumbiaColumbia Graphophone Recordings (Non-US)
Columbia Recordings (US)
HistoryColumbia 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 Catalogs1925, United StatesSource: 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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