Autograph Records (2)
Настоящее имя: Autograph Records (2)
1920s label from Chicago, Illinois, active 1921-1926.
Orlando R. Marsh founded Marsh Laboratories, Inc. in Chicago, Illinois and launched the Autograph label to release recordings made at his studio. Marsh was a pioneer of electrical recording, and Autograph used primitive electrically recorded masters, making it the first American record company to issue electrical recordings on a regular commercial basis. Early Autograph labels did not mention the electrical process, but by mid-1925 they carried the "Electrically Recorded" imprint. Marsh contracted pressing to The New York Recording Laboratories, which in turn contracted many of its Chicago Paramount recording sessions to Marsh Laboratories. Autograph records were pressed and sold in small quantities and are quite scarce today. Most consist of private or promotional material, lectures, recitations and other material of little music interest. However, the label did produce sporadic releases by jazz pioneers such as Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Muggsy Spanier and Jimmy O'Bryant. The Autograph label was acquired by The New York Recording Laboratories in 1926 and suspended shortly thereafter.
Chicago, IL