Beginning with Jackie Wilson’s first hit “Reet Petite” in 1957, Brunswick introduced numerous hits to the R&B and Pop charts for nearly 20 years, by artists such as Tyrone Davis, Barbara Acklin, Young Holt Unlimited and The Chi-Lites. Starting in the latter part of the 1950s and well into the 1970s, the label was recording more R&B/soul acts. That same year, Brunswick resumed releasing new material, focusing on Rock and Roll. By 1952, Brunswick was put under the management of Decca's Coral Records subsidiary. For a time, Brunswick was a trademark of Decca Records, Inc. During the war (1943), British Decca sold its American branch. After World War II, American Decca releases were issued in the United Kingdom on the Brunswick label until 1968 when the MCA Records label was introduced in the UK. In 1943, Decca revived the Brunswick label, mostly for reissues of recordings from earlier decades. Rights to recordings from late December 1931 on were retained by CBS/ Columbia. In 1941, Warners sold the Brunswick and Vocalion (2) labels to American Decca (which Warners had a financial interest in), along with all masters recorded prior to December 1931. Columbia discontinued the Brunswick label in 1940 in favor of reviving the Columbia label, which violated the Warners lease agreement, resulting in the Brunswick trademark reverting back to Warners. was bought by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1932, the UK branch of Brunswick was acquired by British Decca. In April 1930, Brunswick-Balke-Collender sold Brunswick Records to Warner Bros., who then leased the entire Brunswick record operation to the American Record Corporation (ARC) in December 1931. In the spring of 1925 Brunswick introduced its own version of electrical recording (licensed from General Electric) using photoelectric cells, which Brunswick eventually called the "Light-Ray Process". In late 1924, Brunswick acquired the Vocalion (2) Records label. In 1920, a new line of Brunswick Records were introduced in the US and Canada that employed the lateral cut system that was then becoming the default cut for 78 disc records. Records under the "Brunswick" label were first produced by the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company. They were recorded in the US but sold only in Canada. These first Brunswick Records used the vertical cut system (like Edison Disc Records), and were not sold in large numbers. The company first began producing phonographs in 1916, then began marketing their own line of records as an after-thought. US label also appears as "Brunswick Records".įor all Unofficial / Bootleg release of this label please use Brunswick (2)īrunswick is an active American record label founded in 1916.
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