Brunswick Records: New York sessions, 1927-1931

Ross Laird · Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company · Brunswick Radio Corporation

Jan 2001 · Greenwood Publishing Group

About this ebook

This discography documents the full range of Brunswick label recordings through 1931, when the American Record Corporation purchased the label. The data includes affiliated or subsidiary labels such as Vocalion and Melotone. Brunswick recorded a wide variety of music in both New York City and in a variety of regional locations within and outside of the United States. This collection of material provides a unique cross-section of the music and musicians of the time. Much of the information derives from surviving company files and from issued recordings.

This comprehensive discography will appeal to researchers and collectors. Each volume is indexed by artist. The last volume includes a consolidated artist index and title and catalog number index.

About the author

ROSS LAIRD has worked as a librarian and researcher, and has worked in the media in Australia and Hong Kong. He is currently a sound archivist at the Australian National Screen and Sound Archive in Canberra. He is the author of Tantalizing Tingles: A Discography of Early Ragtime, Jazz, and Novelty Syncopated Piano Recordings, 1889-1934 (Greenwood, 1995) and Moanin' Low: A Discography of Female Popular Vocal Recordings, 1920-1933 (Greenwood, 1996).