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Vocalion

Author: HOWARD RYE

Vocalion Record label of the Aeolian Company, piano manufacturers of New York, introduced in 1920 to replace its original Aeolian-Vocalion label. It was sold about November 1924 to Brunswick, which maintained Vocalion as a separate label but with much interchange of masters. Vocalion participated in the vaudeville blues boom of the early 1920s with sides by Rosa Henderson, Edna Hicks, Viola McCoy, Monette Moore , and others. A Race series, the Vocalion 1000s, recorded under the supervision of…

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