[78-L] Aeolian-Vocalion Question

[David Lennick]

Now, of course, someone will give us chapter and verse of precisely when 
Richard Strauss recorded for Parlophone, how many takes were made, who went for 
coffee, what kind of oil was used to fry the schnitzel..

David Lennick wrote:
> 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