Bingola Records was a

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of the 1920s. It was manufactured by

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of Boston, Massachusetts, and is one of the rarest and most short-lived labels produced by that company. The records were produced for the Bing Corporation of

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, the U.S. branch of the German Bing Werke company of

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, which in 1925 had introduced its own line of phonographs called "Bingophone". The Bingola label was registered as a

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in October 1927 and seems to have been produced only briefly during this year and 1928. Known issues re-use ordinary Grey Gull masters, but the label's catalogue numbers (in a 1000-series) have no visible connection with the equivalent issues on the company's other labels. Reference works long cited 1008 as the highest known catalogue number of a Bingola issue. However in 2008 a copy of Bingola 1011 (see photo) was sold by the vintage record dealer Kurt Nauck.

Sources

* Brian Rust: ''The American Record Label Book'' (New York, 1984) * Allan Sutton: ''Directory of American Disc Record Brands and Manufacturers, 1891-1943'' (Westport & London, 1994) * Nauck's Vintage Records, auction catalogue #43 (spring 2008) {{Authority control American record labels Record labels established in 1927 Record labels disestablished in 1928

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