Victor

Victor Record company founded in Camden, New Jersey, by Eldridge R. Johnson in 1901. It shared with the Gramophone Company the rights to the HMV “dog-and-gramophone” logo. In the early 1920s popular recording was directed by Edward T. King, who was unsympathetic to African American music. Auditions for a Race series in 1921 were abandoned and seven 1923 issues by such as Lizzie Miles and Rosa Henderson remained isolated. King’s replacement by Nat Shilkret in November 1926 led to rapid change…