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An advertisement for Edison New Standard Phonograph, 1898 An advertisement for the Columbia Grafonola. This is a list of phonograph manufacturers.The phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone, record player or turntable, is a device introduced in 1877 for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.
Dusty Groove is a Chicago-based online record store specializing in new and vintage jazz, funk, soul, hip-hop, world, rare, collectible, and vinyl records and CDs. [4] Dusty Groove building at 1120 N Ashland Avenue. Front entrance to the Dusty Groove Chicago store. Interior of Dusty Groove on an early weekday.
Webster-Chicago simplified the design and developed a recorder that sold for only $150, half the price of competing models. [2] By the 1950s it was the leading manufacturer of wire recorders in the United States. [3] The wire recorder business was short-lived.
Standard Records. The Standard Talking Machine Company was an American record label that was created in October 1901 and operated until March 1918. The Chicago, Illinois based company distributed several models of phonographs from Columbia Graphophone Company parts and issued single-sided and double-sided disc records from Columbia Records masters. [1]
Jim Golden started the USA label as part of Chicago's Allstate Distributors in 1960, which was owned by Paul Glass. USA Record Co., Inc. had its office at 1448 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60605, which was across the street from Chess Records and Glass's Allstate Distributors, Chess' regional distributor.
The company relied on offices and agents in nearby Chicago to find and record artists for its blues and jazz offerings. [4] Paramount's race record series was launched in 1922 with vaudeville blues songs by Lucille Hegamin and Alberta Hunter. [5] The company had a large mail-order operation which was a key to its early success. [2]
The store was the first of its kind in the Chicago area, focusing on vinyl for DJs, and since has become a destination point for traveling DJs. [3] The store focuses on stocking house, techno and electronic music [4] and has been important in the promotion of Chicago house music. [5] [6] [7] It is currently owned by DJ Michael Serafini. [8] [9 ...
CME was founded in 1990 by Scott Silver who moved the store from 3270 N. Clark St to its current location in 2005. A major player in the global vintage guitar market, Chicago Music Exchange took an active role in vintage guitar boom of the mid to late-2000s.