[78-L] Aeolian-Vocalion Question

[Tyrone Settlemier]

Vocalion wound up as a budget LP label for Decca.  I don't recall seeing US 
Vocalion 45s.

Tyrone


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> ARC and later CBS acquired the Vocalion label along with Brunswick...and
> used it
> as a low-priced (35 cents) label. When CBS essentially "abandoned" 
> Brunswick
> by
> failing to issue enough of them, in mid-1940, they also lost the rights to
> Vocalion...
> which they replaced with the Okeh label (and kept the same numeric
> sequence!). In
> fact,I have a copy of the special issue which introduced the Okeh label
> effective
> June, 1940! Eventually, Decca used the Brunswick label for reissues of 
> jazz
> sets
> (80###) and later revived the Vocalion label as well. IIRC, Vocalion
> eventually
> wound up as another pop label in the sixties...?!
>
> ...stevenc
>
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