Parlophone

Parlophone, founded 1896: jazz artists and albums on the label.

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Artists on Parlophone

Label profile

Multinational label.
Label Code: LC 0299 / LC 00299
Please note, many Parlophone issues also carry an EMI logo. This is not a label and EMI should not be added as a label, it instead indicates that Parlophone was part of the EMI Group.

Parlophone is an anglicization of the German Parlophon label, registered as a trademark for talking machines in 1902 by Max Straus and Heinrich Zuntz of Salon Kinematograph Co. GmbH, later merged into Carl Lindström A.-G.. The first Parlophon records are pressed in 1910.

By 1923, Parlophone proper appears in London administered by English Lindström branch known as , pressed in London and sold domestically. This marks the return of the German conglomerate to the British market since 1915, when their Hertford record plant had been seized and soon acquired by , who leased it to Lindström to make Parlophone records. Early on, its catalogue greatly relied on imported recordings originally made for Lindström's own imprints Beka, Parlophon, Odeon (including Argentine tango recordings) and their American partner Okeh alongside a slowly growing repertoire of new British recordings and a small number of pre-war recordings. After World War II, Parlophone iss

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Albums on Parlophone