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Encyclopedia > Silvertone Records
Single side Silvertone Record, c. 1909
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Single side Silvertone Record, c. 1909
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Silvertone Records was a record label manufactured for Sears Roebuck, & Co. for sale in their chain of department stores and through mail order. Silvertone Records gramophone record label, c. ... Silvertone Records gramophone record label, c. ... Silvertone Records gramophone record Label This image is in the public domain in the United States and possibly other jurisdictions. ... Silvertone Records gramophone record Label This image is in the public domain in the United States and possibly other jurisdictions. ... 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. ... Sears, Roebuck and Company is a retailing division of Sears Holdings Corporation. ... A department store organizes its goods by departments, such as womens clothes, home furnishings, electronics, and the like. ... Mail order is a term which describes the buying of goods or services by mail delivery. ...


Silvertone Records were manufactured c. 1905 - 1931, and then revived briefly in 1940 - 1941. Early releases were single-sided lateral-cut gramophone records; in the late 1910s double-sided discs began to be released. Most were manufactured by Columbia Records, with some made by Paramount Records and Gennett Records. 1905 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (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. ... Columbia Records is the oldest continually used brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888. ... Paramount Records was a United States based record label, best known for its recordings of African-American jazz and blues. ... Gennett (pronounced with a soft G) was a United States based record label which flourished in the 1920s. ...


There was also a short-lived British Silvertone Records label, issuing 8-inch discs in the mid 1930s. Mid-19th century tool for converting between different standards of the inch An inch is an Imperial unit of length. ... // Events and trends The 1930s were spent struggling for a solution to the global depression. ...



The UK record label who signed The Stone Roses in the late 1980's were Silvertone. The classic line-up at the time of the Spike Island concert. ... UK Record Label owned by Zomba Music Group. ...


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Silvertone Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (178 words)
The oldest Silvertone Records was a record label manufactured for Sears Roebuck, and Co. for sale in their chain of department stores and through mail order.
Early releases were single-sided lateral-cut gramophone records; in the late 1910s double-sided discs began to be released.
Most discs were manufactured by Columbia Records, while some were made by Paramount Records and Gennett Records.
About Silvertone (1056 words)
Utilising a Silvertone Mark 1 proportional transmitter, the chair was actually a prototype dual control (buddy box) system with the chair control pots wired directly into the encoder.
The Silvertone keyboard is to this day still used in almost every R/C club in Australia and has since been declared the Australian National Standard Frequency Control System.
All Mark 22 transmitters and receivers are now rated for 10kHz operation in preparation for the introduction of this frequency spacing in early 2002, thereby maintaining the long tradition of being in the forefront of developments in narrow band operations in Australia.
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