Savoy/National/Regent/Acorn

Savoy/National/Regent/Acorn Founded in 1942 in Newark, New Jersey, by electronics expert and radio parts retailer Herman Lubinsky —with the patronage of veteran record man Eli Oberstein — Savoy Records was formed as a jazz label and was named after “The Home of Happy Feet,” the Savoy Ballroom. Now justly famous for the innovative and invaluable mainstream jazz and bebop recordings conducted by A,R man Teddy Reig between 1945 and 1951, Savoy Records, and often Reig himself, was also responsible…