Silvertone Records was a
record label
A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the produ ...
manufactured for
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as ...
for sale in their chain of
department store
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s and through
mail order
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* Sending an order form in the mail
* Placing a telephone call
* Placing ...
.
Silvertone's discs were manufactured
1916
Events
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January
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* J ...
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1928
Events January
* January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.
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, and then revived briefly in
1940
A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280.
Events
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January
* Januar ...
–
1941. Early releases were single-sided lateral-cut
phonograph records; in the late 1910s double-sided discs began to be released. Most discs were manufactured by
Columbia Records, while some were made by
Paramount Records and
Gennett Records. Earlier in the label's history, it was used to supplant its sister label
Oxford Records
Oxford Records was a record label active in the United States of America from roughly 1906 until 1916. The label was produced for Sears by several labels, including Columbia and Albany Indestructible Cylinders for cylinders and Leeds & Catlin, ...
.
See also
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List of record labels
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Silvertone Records (disambiguation) Silvertone Records has been the name for at least three record companies:
* Silvertone Records (1916), a United States-based company.
* Silvertone Records (Selfridges), a United Kingdom-based company that existed in the 1930s
* Silvertone Records ...
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Oxford Records
Oxford Records was a record label active in the United States of America from roughly 1906 until 1916. The label was produced for Sears by several labels, including Columbia and Albany Indestructible Cylinders for cylinders and Leeds & Catlin, ...
, Silvertone's sister label
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Silvertone (brand)
Silvertone is a brand created and promoted by Sears for its line of consumer electronics and musical instruments from 1916 to 1972. The rights to the Silvertone brand were purchased by South Korean corporation Samick Music in 2001. Samick made n ...
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Sears, Roebuck & Company Record Labels (1905-1950)
American record labels
Record labels established in 1916
Record labels disestablished in 1928
Record labels established in 1940
Record labels disestablished in 1941
Re-established companies
Record labels owned by Sears, Roebuck and Company
Jazz record labels
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