• Melotone Records was an American record label founded in 1930. Warner/Brunswick Records introduced the Melotone label in the U.S. and Canada as a budget...
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  • model that revived the Melotone name Melotone Records (Australia), an Australian record label Melotone Records (US), an American record label This disambiguation...
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  • Melotone Records was an Australian record label sold in the Foy & Gibson's chain stores. List of record labels Melotone Records (US) v t e...
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    Gene Autry (category Melotone Records (US) artists)
    Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954. Record Research. "MELOTONE 1935 78rpm numerical listing discography". www.78discography.com...
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    a 10-inch Brunswick record at 75 cents, but allowed ARC free rein to set prices for Vocalion and Melotone (The price of Melotone nonetheless stayed at...
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    Eddie Cantor (category Melotone Records (US) artists)
    1952–1953 season. In addition to film and radio, Cantor recorded for Hit of the Week Records, then again for Columbia, for Banner and Decca and various...
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  • Melodic Revolution Records Melodisc Records Melodiya Melotone Records (Australia) Melotone Records (US) Meltdown Records Memorandum Recordings Memory Lane...
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    Gene Austin (category Melotone Records (US) artists)
    with Victor, Austin sold over 80 million records. His 1926 "Bye Bye Blackbird" was in the year's top 20 records. George A. Whiting and Walter Donaldson's...
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    Smith Ballew (category Melotone Records (US) artists)
    of the most recognizable vocalists on hundreds of dance band and jazz records, based in New York City. During this time, Ballew along with Scrappy Lambert...
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  • Chick Bullock (category Melotone Records (US) artists)
    1930s. He recorded around 500 tunes over the course of his career. Bullock was mostly associated with the ARC group of record labels (Melotone, Perfect...
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  • Banner, and Melotone. The first was the short-lived Timely Tunes label in 1931, sold exclusively by Montgomery Ward. Bluebird Records was created in...
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    Melotone, Perfect, Banner, Regal, Domino, Conqueror, Vocalion and other ARC labels. (Even though Columbia was bought by ARC in 1934, Columbia records...
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    well as the ARC group of dime-store labels (Melotone, Perfect, Romeo, Oriole, etc.). Although Crown records turn up in the east, they are much less commonly...
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    In November 1930, the new budget-line, Melotone, debuted, entering a field of lower-priced electrical records, including Columbia's Clarion, Velvet Tone...
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    Songs in the USA Nehi Records NEH3X1 (2015). 1934 – Callahan Brothers – "'Katie Dear (Silver Dagger)", Banner Ba 33103. Melotone Me 13071, Oriole Or 8353...
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    ARC-BRC combination, it no longer enjoyed a flagship status accorded to Melotone among the budget labels. Although ARC-BRC dropped some of the dime-store...
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    Lead Belly (category Folkways Records artists)
    simultaneously release these songs on six different labels they owned: Banner, Melotone, Oriole, Perfect, Romeo, and Paramount.: 159–60, 292–95  These recordings...
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  • Full Collapse (category Victory Records albums)
    guitar on "Autobiography of a Nation" and "Wind-Up"; Giles with strings and melotone on "Paris in Flames"; and Frank Giokas of Unsound with additional guitar...
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    material recorded and issued on Victor's Bluebird label and halfway through switched to material recorded and issued on ARC's dime store labels (Melotone, Perfect...
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  • Archie Bleyer (category Apex Records artists)
    California. Bleyer's orchestra recorded for Vocalion Records in 1934 and in 1935 moved to the ARC group of labels (Melotone, Perfect, Romeo, Oriole). One...
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    75 label, Melotone would release new hillbilly and other $.35 dime-store discounted discs, and Vocalion, while re-releasing prior ARC records, would also...
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    and Jimmy Long recorded the better-known version for American Record Corporation (ARC). This was released in June 1933 on Melotone Records (catalog No....
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  • Oriole, Perfect, Regal, Romeo, Banner, Melotone, Domino), Variety, and Vocalion. Although a few of their records became hits (including "Truckin'" and...
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  • Messner (vocalist) Matrix: 18165=1 Xref: CQ8614 Melotone Conqueror "Messner's Band Here for Dance", The Record, January 15, 1942. Accessed December 2, 2022...
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    D) and Ruth Etting (Melotone 12625) had hits with it in 1933. Bing Crosby also recorded it on January 9, 1933, for Brunswick Records. A version by Bob and...
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    McCrory), Romeo (for Kress), Melotone, Vocalion, Banner, Conqueror (for Sears), and Perfect labels at 35c each, or 3 records for $1.00. In December 1938...
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  • and Jimmy Dorsey. They started recording in 1928 for OKeh Records. The Dorsey Brothers recorded songs for the dime store labels (Banner, Cameo, Domino,...
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  • Era site Melotone Records discography for 1938 Vocalion Records in the 4000 to 4499 series Bell Records in the 1003 to 1120 series MGM Records in the 30500...
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    Orchestra 1936-04-16 "Would You?" / "Us On a Bus" Melotone 1936-04-16 "She Shall Have Music" / "The Glory of Love" Melotone 1936-04-16 "The Call of the Prairie"...
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  • on a 78 by ARC and issued on Banner, Melotone, Oriole, Perfect, Romeo, and Vocalion. The second time he recorded the song was live at The New Café Zanzibar...
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