Blue Bird (6)

Blue Bird ranks among the earliest of the Los Angeles-based record labels, along with Nordskog and Golden. However, unlike those labels Blue Bird did not maintain a West Coast studio. Instead, it drew its material entirely from East Coast recordings by The New York Recording Laboratories, the makers of Paramount records. The records, which seem to have been sold only during 1921, pre-date NYRL's plunge into the race-record market. Instead, they feature the usual New York fare by such pedestrian performers as Sam Ash, Billy Murray, and Adrian Schubert's Dance Orchestra, selectively duplicating Paramount releases of 1920–21. Blue Bird releases used the same couplings and catalog numbers as the Paramount issues from which they were derived.