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Beka Records
Beka Records was a record label based in Germany, active from about 1903 to 1925. Before World War I, Beka also made gramophone records for the United Kingdom market under the Beka-Grand Records label. The company became a subsidiary of the Carl Lindström Company which was sold to the Columbia Graphophone Company in 1926. Artists on the label included Bert Alvey, Jessie Broughton, Albertina Cassani, Lucia Cavalli, Cook & Carpenter, Gerhard Ebeler, Kappelle Willy Krug, Kapelle Merton, Miss Riboet, Phillip Ritte, the Beka London Orchestra, the Dobbri Saxophone Orchestra, the Martina Salon Orchestra, the Meister Orchestra, and the Royal Cowes Minstrels. A history of Beka Records, together with a listing of known records issued by the label, is published by the City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society (CLPGS) as part of their Reference Series of books. See also * List of record labels File:Alvinoreyguitarboogie.jpg File:AmMusicBunk78.jpg File:Bingola1011b.jpg Lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1926 In Music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1926. Specific locations * 1926 in British music * 1926 in Norwegian music Specific genres * 1926 in country music * 1926 in jazz Events * January – Blind Lemon Jefferson makes his first recordings. * April 9 – Leopold Stokowski conducts the world premiere of Edgar Varèse's ''Amériques'', with the Philadelphia Orchestra. * May 12 – Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1 premières in Leningrad. The composer is 19 years old. * c. May – Socialist English composer Rutland Boughton stages a performance of his Nativity opera ''Bethlehem'' (1915) at Church House, Westminster, in a staging explicitly referencing the 1926 United Kingdom general strike. * June 26 – Václav Talich conducts the world première of Leoš Janáček's '' Sinfonietta'' in Prague * October 21 – Carl Nielsen's Flute Concerto is given its world première in Paris * October 28 – Bing Crosby cuts his first record, a recording of "I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Record Labels Established In 1903
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Defunct Record Labels Of Germany
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German Record Labels
German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Germanic peoples (Roman times) * German language **any of the Germanic languages * German cuisine, traditional foods of Germany People * German (given name) * German (surname) * Germán, a Spanish name Places * German (parish), Isle of Man * German, Albania, or Gërmej * German, Bulgaria * German, Iran * German, North Macedonia * German, New York, U.S. * Agios Germanos, Greece Other uses * German (mythology), a South Slavic mythological being * Germans (band), a Canadian rock band * "German" (song), a 2019 song by No Money Enterprise * ''The German'', a 2008 short film * "The Germans", an episode of ''Fawlty Towers'' * ''The German'', a nickname for Congolese rebel André Kisase Ngandu See also * Germanic (other) * Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Record Labels
File:Alvinoreyguitarboogie.jpg File:AmMusicBunk78.jpg File:Bingola1011b.jpg Lists of record labels cover record labels, brands or trademarks associated with marketing of music recordings and music videos. The lists are organized alphabetically, by genre, by company and by location. Alphabetical * List of record labels: 0–9 * List of record labels: A–H * List of record labels: I–Q * List of record labels: R–Z By genre * Bing Crosby's record labels after 1955 *List of Christian record labels *List of electronic music record labels * List of hip hop record labels *List of tango music labels By company *List of EMI labels *List of Kakao M labels *Record labels owned by Sony BMG *List of Sony Music labels *List of Universal Music Group labels * List of Warner Music Group labels By location *List of Bangladeshi record labels *List of record labels from Bristol *List of New Zealand record labels *List of Quebec record labels *List of West Coast hip hop record labels *List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CLPGS
The City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society (CLPGS)In the United Kingdom, the term 'phonograph' is used for a player of cylinders, while a 'gramophone' plays disc records. In many other parts of the world the term 'phonograph' is used for both. is a British society and registered charity dedicated to the research in all aspects of early recorded sound. Founded in 1919, the CLPGS is likely to be the oldest society of its type in the world. History The CLPGS was founded under the name "The London Edison Society" in 1919, when Norman Hillyer and some members of the North London Phonograph and Gramophone Society decided that a group was needed within the City of London. The founding members agreed to approach Thomas Edison to ask if he would become a Patron of the new venture. Edison would only agree if the group changed its name to the City of London Phonograph Society, so this was done. The group's initial membership numbered about forty. In the 1920s, with the shift away fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Ritte
Philip Ritte (8 January 1871 – 14 December 1954) was a British tenor of the early 20th century. He made his stage debut in London's West End singing in Gilbert and Sullivan and other comic operas and musicals. He went on to enjoy great popularity as a concert singer of ballads during the Edwardian era and the First World War, and also as a performer in concert parties at The Oval, Margate in Kent. He made a number of recordings. Early years and personal life Philip Ritte was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1871 as Philip Rittenberg, the son of Bernhard Rittenberg (of Lithuanian Jewish descent) and Bertha Wasserzug (of Polish Jewish descent). He was one of seven children. He was educated at Cowper Street School in London and studied art before moving on to study music. In 1899 he married Henrietta Helena "Lillie" Latte; his profession at this time being given as that of a lithographic artist on the marriage certificate. They had four children. In 1918 he changed his name to Ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Broughton
Jessie Broughton (29 March 1885 – 1938) was an English contralto and actress. She made her stage debut at the Apollo Theatre in London in 1903 and soon appeared in '' Véronique'', ''Havana'' and ''A Waltz Dream'' in the West End. In 1910, she married, and with her husband she performed in London and toured Britain and abroad in variety and music hall, and made recordings, until the 1930s. Early life and career Broughton was born in Hackney, London, as Jessie Broughton Black, the daughter of Broughton Black,''Who's Who in Music'', Ed. Sir Landon Ronald, Shaw Publishing Co. Ltd., 1935, p. 51''Who's Who in Music'', Ed. H. Saxe Wyndham, Boston - Small, Maynard and Co. 1913, p. 31 an actor who had performed with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. She used the stage name Jessie Broughton and for recordings sometimes used the pseudonym Agnes Preston. She was a voice pupil of Madame Oudin and also studied the piano.Culme, John"Postcard of the week" ''Footlight Notes'', 30 January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BEKA B
Beka may refer to: Places by country * Beka, Burkina Faso * Beka, Cameroon * Beka or Bakka, Lebanon, a village, municipality and Roman temple * Beka Valley or Beqaa Valley, Lebanon * Beka, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan * Beka, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland * Beka, Hrpelje-Kozina, Slovenia People * Beka (name), Georgian masculine given name * Abdelkader Fréha (1942–2012), nicknamed Beka, Algerian football player Other uses * Beka or Aka language, a Bantu language spoken in the Central African Republic and Republic of Congo * Beka (weapon), a Russian PK machine gun * Bêka & Lemoine, film production duo * Beka Records, a record label from early 20th-century Germany * Rebekah "Beka" Cooper, a character in the ''Provost's Dog'' trilogy by Tamora Pierce See also * Abeka Abeka Book, LLC, known as A Beka Book until 2017, is an American publisher affiliated with Pensacola Christian College (PCC) that produces K-12 curriculum materials that are used by Christian schools and homesch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia Graphophone Company
Columbia Graphophone Co. Ltd. was one of the earliest phonograph, gramophone companies in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1917 as an offshoot of the American Columbia Records, Columbia Phonograph Company, it became an independent British-owned company in 1922 in a management buy-out after the parent company went into receivership. In 1925 it acquired a controlling interest in its American parent company to take advantage of a new electrical recording process. The British firm also controlled the US operations from 1925 until 1931. That year Columbia Graphophone in the UK merged with the Gramophone Company (which sold records under the HMV label) to form EMI. At the same time, Columbia divested itself of its American branch, which was eventually absorbed by Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) in 1938. As Columbia Records, it became a successful British label in the 1950s and 1960s, and was eventually replaced by the newly created EMI Records, as part of a label consolidation. Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their public company, publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |