This article is about the 1940s-era Vogue Records in the U.S. and Disques Vogue, a longer-lived label in France; there is also a Vogue Records International based in Ottawa.

Vogue Records is the name of two companies/labels founded in the 1940s. The record industry (or recording industry) is the industry that manufactures and distributes mechanical recordings of music. ... 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. ... Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s Years: 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Events and trends Technology First nuclear bomb First cruise missile, the V1 flying bomb and the first ballistic missile, the...

The first and most popular release from Vogue in the U.S.

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USA

Vogue Records was a short-lived United States based record label of the 1940s, noted for the artwork embedded in the records themselves. Founded in 1946 as part of Sav-Way Industries of Detroit, Michigan, the discs were initially a hit, because of the novelty of the colorful artwork, and the improved sound compared to the shellac records dominant at the time. The discs were manufactured by first sandwiching printed illustrations around a core of aluminum, then coating both sides with clear vinyl upon which the grooves were stamped. 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. ... Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s Years: 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Events and trends Technology First nuclear bomb First cruise missile, the V1 flying bomb and the first ballistic missile, the... See also: 1945 in music, other events of 1946, 1947 in music and the list of years in music. Events February 8 - Béla Bartóks Piano Concerto No. ... City motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) City nicknames: The Motor City and Motown Location in the state of Michigan Founded July 24, 1701 County Wayne County Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (Dem) Area  - Total  - Water 370. ... Shellac is a secretion of the lac insect Coccus lacca, found in the forests of Assam and Thailand. ... 33⅓ LP vinyl record album The vinyl record is a type of gramophone record, most popular from the 1950s to the 1990s, that was most commonly used for mass-produced recordings of music. ...

The company went out of business the following year, having released betweem 67 and 74 double-sided 78 rpm gramophone records. Some of the Vogue issues were re-releases of recordings originally issued by other companies. rpm or RPM may mean: revolutions per minute RPM Package Manager (originally called Red Hat Package Manager) RPM (movie) RPM (band), a Brazilian rock band RPM (magazine), a former Canadian music industry magazine In firearms, Rounds Per Minute: how many shots an automatic weapon can fire in one minute On... Manufacturers put records inside protective and decorative cardboard jackets and an inner paper sleeve to protect the grooves from dust and scratches. ...

The colorful artwork on the records have made Vogue Records a collector's item. A collectors item is an object or item of any kind that has become valuable -- often unexpectedly. ...

France

An unrelated Disques Vogue was founded in France in 1947, the same year that the USA Vogue closed shop. They originally specialized in jazz recordings, featuring such artists as Sidney Bechet, Django Reinhardt, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, and Errol Garner. In the late 1950s Vogue expanded into pop music, recording Petula Clark and other popular singers of the era. 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ... Sidney Bechet (May 14, 1897 - May 14, 1959) was a Jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. ... Django Reinhardt as a boy Jean Baptiste Django Reinhardt ( January 23, 1910 – May 16, 1953) was a Belgian Gypsy jazz musician. ... Dizzy Gillespie photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1955 Dizzy Gillespie ( October 21, 1917 - January 6, 1993) was born John Birks Gillespie in Cheraw, South Carolina. ... Lionel Hampton (April 20, 1908 - August 31, 2002), was a bandleader, jazz percussionist and vibraphone virtuoso. ... Erroll Louis Garner (June 15, 1921 - January 21, 1977) was a jazz pianist whose distinctive and melodic style brought him both popular acclaim and the admiration of peers. ... Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends Technology United States tests the first fusion bomb. ... Depending on context, pop music is either an abbreviation of popular music or, more recently, a term for a sub-genre of it. ... Petula Clark on the cover of her latest DVD/CD release Petula Clark, CBE is a British singer, actress, and composer best known for her upbeat popular international hits of the 1960s. ...

The label's United Kingdom sister label was Pye Nixa Records. The label's catalog is today part of Sony BMG. Pye Records was a British record label. ... Sony BMG Music Entertainment is the result of a 50/50 joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment (part of Sony) and BMG Entertainment (part of Bertelsmann AG) completed in August 2004. ...

See also

• List of record labels

The following is a partial list of record labels, both past and present. ...

External links

• What's a Vogue Picture Record? (http://www.voguepicturerecords.org/records.html) from "The Association of Vogue Picture Record Collectors"
• Vogue Records, Appealing to the Ear and the Eye (http://www.go-star.com/antiquing/vogue.htm), from Southeastern Antiquing and Collecting Magazine
• Vogue Picture Records from the Todd Collection (http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/pa/vstate.html) at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library