Melodeon Records is a

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set up in 1964 by

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. Melodeon Records issued - among others - the first recordings after his 'rediscovery' of

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and the 1940 Library Of Congress Sessions of

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. In 1970 the label was acquired by Arnold S. Caplin's

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Illustrated Melodeon Records discography
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