Ammor Record Corporation

Ammor was an acronym for Automatic Music Machine Operators Recording. Founded in Hollywood in July, 1939 by Leon and Otis Rene, Ammor was probably the first West Coast label to be designated exclusively for jukebox use. The company operated its own studio, under the management of Philip Bogin and numbered its masters in an AM-prefixed series. The label is significant for its 1940 recordings by [a145288]. The company relocated to New York City in 1940, when it was reorganized as the Ammor Record Company. With a redesigned label, releases were now offered for retail sale. Later that year, Ammor and Bogin were placed on the AFM's "unfair list" for having failed to pay its artists. The company suspended operations in July 1940 and sold many of its masters to Eli Oberstein, who reissued them on his Varsity label.