[78-L] Aeolian-Vocalion Question

[David Lennick]

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tyrone Settlemier" <talk78s.settlemier at sbcglobal.net>
>> Vocalion wound up as a budget LP label for Decca.  I don't recall seeing 
>> US
>> Vocalion 45s.
>>
> I no longer recall how I learned this...but IIRC Vocalion wound up as an
> independent "race-oriented" operation...based on Chicago's "South Side"...!
> 
> ...stevenc 
> 

BRUNSWICK ended up thus..gave us the Chi-Lites and other such acts. Jackie 
Wilson's manager ended up owning the label around 1970. Here's a kind of 
history, with the usual errors you find in this kind of thing (Richard Strauss 
did NOT record for Parlophone):
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Brunswick_Records

dl