Odeon Records was a record label founded by Max Strauss and Heinrich Zunz in Berlin, Germany. A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... Berlin? (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,426,000 inhabitants (as of January 2005); down from 4. ...
In 1904 Odeon launched the first double-sided gramophone records. In 1931 Odeon merged with the United Kingdom branch of Columbia Records, Electrola Records, HMV, Parlophone and other labels to form EMI. In 1936 the director of the Odeon branch was forced to retire and replaced by Dr. Kepler, a Nazi party member. In 1939 Odeon and Electrola were placed under a Nazi-appointed administrator. When the Russians liberated Berlin in 1945 they destroyed most of the Odeon factory. After 1945 Odeon continued to be used as a labels for pressings made for West Africa. In Brazil the label survived as an EMI subsidiary until the mid 1960s when it finally disappeared completely. 1904 is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Manufacturers put records inside protective and decorative cardboard jackets and an inner paper sleeve to protect the grooves from dust and scratches. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Columbia Records is the oldest continually used brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888. ... His Masters Voice, often abbreviated to HMV, is a famous trademark in the music business, and for many years was the name of a large record company. ... Parlophone is a record label which was founded in Germany prior to World War I by the Carl Lindstrom Company. ... The EMI Group is a major record label, based in Hammersmith, London, in the United Kingdom and with operations in over 25 other countries. ... 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Although German-made Odeonrecords were occasionally exported to the United States on special order, there does not seem to have been any serious attempt to market the label here before the early 1920s.
Odeon was retained as a classical and foreign-language sideline and was credited to the Okeh Phonograph Corporation, of which Heineman retained the presidency.
Decca reissued old Odeon classical material (some of it dating to the late 1920s) in some quantity, but its cheap pressings were a far cry from the glossy, laminated Odeons of a decade earlier.
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