[78-L] Gennett Question

[David Lewis]

<udmacon1 at hotmail.com>> Did Starr-Gennett operate a permanent recording studio in Chicago or was > it "portable?">Would Gennett have needed...or even wanted...a facility in Chicago, when they hadone in Richmond, Indiana...about 200 miles to the south-east? In fact, many of theChicago performers cut records in Richmond! They also could have made arrangementswith either NYRL (who DID record in Chicago) or the Rodeheaver operation (ditto)...?! ...stevenc 

 

Just about all of the small record companies in Chicago in the 1920s were likely concentrated in the block then known as "printers row" in Chicago. Marsh Labs and Rodeheaver were literally next door to one another, and yet I can find only one record in which they may have cooperated.

 

I would suspect that Gennett would have had a regular facility in Chicago, though if Rick Kennedy says it was "portable" well okay. Rodeheaver would have been out of the question by these dates cited (1927-1931) as he was no longer operating Rainbow after 1926 and hadn't used his Chicago facility since October 1924. 

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