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Encyclopedia > Meteor Records

Meteor Records was a record label launched in the early fifties. It was a subsidiary of Modern Records.


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meteor (775 words)
Meteor Records was formed by the Bihari brothers who had launched the Modern Music label in Los Angeles after the war in the late 40s.
The very first Meteor Records release that gets any airplay or sales outside the South is #5016, a blistering instrumental that is listed on the label as by Sax Man Brown with Elmo James Broomdusters, but is in reality the combo of J.T. (Big Boy) Brown.
The last record issued by the label in 1955 is an attempt to duplicate their one big hit (#5016) and so Sax Man Brown and The Broomdusters record "Sax Symphonic Boogie".
Meteor Falls and Other Natural Phenomena (5776 words)
As Recorded in the Annals of the Chosôn Dynasty (Korea)*
For records in B) format, the size and shape were compared to a drinking cup, a bottle, a fist, a pear, a water jar, a small box, a round barrel, and a bowl, while the color was described as red, white or blue.
The four different formats of the records were not differentiated according to size; rather, the system for describing details changed according to the times, as evidenced by the trend in the records from Period 6 and Period 7 generally showing a rough sketch.
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