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His mother, Marie, ne Delouart, was Basque but had grown up in Madrid. [3] Joplin played as a solo musician at dances and at the major black clubs in Sedalia, among them the "Maple Leaf Club". By the latter half of 1961, Columbia started using pressing plants with newer equipment. The "deep groove" pressings were made on older pressing machines, where the groove was an artifact of the metal stamper being affixed to a round center "block" to assure the resulting record would be centered. PASC was later integrated into the ISO/IEC 11172-3 standard as MPEG-1 Audio Layer I (MP1). Subtitled "Another Take on 'Girlfriend'", Goodfriend was a promotional CD partly distributed through Sweet's fan club, and was not commercially released until the Legacy Edition. The vinyl sound effects were not added like they were on the CD. Early years. Columbia Graphophone Co. Ltd. was one of the earliest gramophone companies in the United Kingdom. The most popular medium used to market recordings to the public during the 1970s was the vinyl LP phonograph record. Unfortunately this software was extremely slow (it takes several hours to compress a few minutes of PCM music in a WAV file to PASC) but it was soon discovered that the PASC files are simply MPEG-1 Audio Layer I files that use an under-documented padding feature of the MPEG standard to make all frames the same length, so then it became easy to use other MPEG decoding software to convert PASC to PCM and vice versa. The original Walking Eye was tall and solid; it was modified in 1961[43] to the familiar one still used today (pictured on this page), despite the fact that the Walking Eye was used only sporadically during most of the 1990s. 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When Asher took over CBS' UK division in 1972, a freelance promoter might only charge $100 per week, but by 1979 the top American independent promoters had organized themselves into a loose collective known as "The Network", and their fees were now running into the tens millions of dollars per year, Music historian Frederic Dannen estimates that by 1980 the major labels were paying anywhere from to $100,000 to $300,000 per song to the "Network" promoters, and that it was costing the industry as whole as much as $80million annually. [4], On July 5, 1991, Philips announced that Matsushita had joined forces with them to develop DCC.[5]. The DCC-175 was sold only in the Netherlands, and was available separately or in a package with the "PC-link" data cable which can be used to connect the recorder to a parallel port of an IBM-compatible PC. But the music industry was in financial decline. The DCC form factor is similar to the analog compact cassette (CC), and DCC recorders and players can play back either type: analog as well as DCC. [3] Tandy Corporation announced at the same time that it would help Philips with the development and distribution through its Tandy and RadioShack stores. [75], As of March 2013, Columbia Records was home to 90 artists such as Lauren Jauregui, Robbie Williams, Calvin Harris and Daft Punk. In the 1950s, Columbia also began releasing LPs drawn from the soundtracks of popular films. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. In 2018, independent vinyl reissue label Intervention Records announced that it would be releasing Artist-Approved 2 LP Expanded Editions of 100% Fun, Altered Beast, and Girlfriend; the three albums will also be released on CD/SACD. When he landed at Columbia, his album My Griffin Is Gone was described as "the poster child for 'overproduced,' full of all kinds of instruments and even strings". The success of these recordings persuaded Capitol Records to begin releasing LPs in 1949. (This was not the first release in LP format, however. To make sure that the absolute time codes remain continuous (and the tape remains a super user tape), the user should start every recording at a point where absolute time codes are available. Upon his death, Scruggs' mother, Georgia Lula Ruppe (called This invention lead to a recorded music market that began to appear in the 1880s. [87][90][91][92] The producer Morty Palitz had been instrumental in convincing Columbia Records to begin to use the Liederkranz Hall studio for recording music, additionally convincing the conductor Andre Kostelanetz to make some of the first recordings in Liederkranz Hall which until then had only been used for CBS Symphony radio shows. Many of the first radio stations were owned by newspapers, radio manufacturers, and department stores and did not use the advertising and sponsorship that is familiar to audiences today. Phonograph cylinders are the earliest commercial medium for recording and reproducing sound. In October 1958, Columbia, in time for the Christmas season, put out a series of "Greatest Hits" packages by such artists as Johnny Mathis, Doris Day, Guy Mitchell, Johnnie Ray, Jo Stafford, Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Frankie Laine and the Four Lads; months later, it put out another Mathis compilation as well as that of Marty Robbins. What we all know as the modern music industry began in the 1920s with all of these new technologies that were created and used to make and distribute music. One of Columbia's first stereo releases was an abridged and re-structured performance of Handel's Messiah by the New York Philharmonic and the Westminster Choir conducted by Leonard Bernstein (recorded on December 31, 1956, on 12-inch tape, using an Ampex 300-3 machine). It was founded on January 15, 1889, evolving from the American Graphophone Company, the successor to the Volta Graphophone Company. Once radio became widespread and popular, the worlds of radio and recorded music began to merge. During its four-season run, the series promoted Miller's "Singalong" albums, which sold over 20million units, and received a 34% audience share when it was cancelled in 1964.[55]. Dancing was a large part of popular culture and music during this decade and there were a number of iconic dances to emerge from these scenes. Blues music is characterized by repeating chords and 1920s blues focused on a twelve bar structure. English subsidiary, the Columbia Graphophone Company, 799 7th Avenue, 6th&7th flrs, New York City, Nathan Milstein's recording of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, Learn how and when to remove this template message, The Columbia Graphophone and Grafonola -A Beginner's Guide, "125 Years of Columbia Records - An Interactive Timeline", "Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry: The Gramophone", "Hail, Columbia: A fresh book at last gives Edward Easton and his Graphophone company their due", "Tim Gracyk's Phonographs, Singers, and Old Records - How Late Did Columbia Use Brown Wax? Columbia's LPs were particularly well-suited to classical music's longer pieces, so some of the early albums featured such artists as Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Bruno Walter and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and Sir Thomas Beecham and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Only the last two digits in the respective catalog series' matched. DCC tape is the same 0.15 inches (3.8mm) width as in analog compact cassettes, and operates at the same speed: .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}1+78 inches (4.8cm) per second. It is possible that the rag was named after the Maple Leaf Club, although there is no direct evidence to prove the link, and there were probably many other possible sources for the name in and around Sedalia at the time. Unlike later, shorter-playing high-speed cylinders, early cylinder recordings were usually cut at a speed of about 120 rpm and can play for as long as three minutes. All DCC recorders used the SCMS copy-protection system, which uses two bits in the S/PDIF digital audio stream and on tape to differentiate between protected vs. unprotected audio, and between original vs. copy: Analog recording was not restricted: tapes recorded from analog source were marked "unprotected". Movie versions of Broadway musicals became extremely popular and introduced different types of music to audiences across the world. [69] Yetnikoff soon became notorious for his violent temper and regular tantrums: "He shattered glassware, spewed a mixture of Yiddish and barnyard epithets, and had people physically ejected from the CBS building."[70]. At first, the discs were commonly made from shellac, with earlier records having a fine She was known for her incredibly strong vocals. [51] The recordings could not be released under the Columbia Records name because EMI operated a separate record label by that name, Columbia Graphophone Company, outside North America. A final important figure in 1920s blues music was Blind Lemon Jefferson, a singer and guitarist who had a distinctive style that made him a hugely successful recording artist in the early days of the music industry. American Columbia was not happy with EMI's reluctance to introduce long playing records.[37]. Other backup media common in those days were faster, had more capacity, and supported long file names, so the DCC backup programs were relatively unhelpful for users. When Mitch Miller retired in 1965,[60] Columbia was at a turning point. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital_Compact_Cassette&oldid=1119643223, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2017, Articles with unsourced statements from February 2019, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2017, Articles needing additional references from November 2022, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Theoretically 120 minutes; longest available tapes were 105 minutes. The multitude of instruments added to his usual solo guitar were all done "tastefully", of course, but was not really on par with Rush's audience expectations. Songs would often chronicle the singers personal troubles and the daily racial problems associated with being African American in the prejudiced and segregated South. Other favorites in the Viva-tonal era included Ruth Etting, Paul Whiteman, Fletcher Henderson, Ipana Troubadours (a Sam Lanin group), and Ted Lewis. Upon his death, Scruggs' mother, Georgia Lula Ruppe (called He later said to Rolling Stone, "It's funny how the album ended up showing everything I needed to feel. These recordings were contributed to the Archive by users through the Open Source Audio collection. [89], Columbia also recorded in the highly respected Liederkranz Hall, at 111 East 58th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues, in New York City, it was built by and formerly belonged to a German cultural and musical society, The Liederkranz Society, and used as a recording studio (Victor also recorded in Liederkranz Hall in the late 1920s). Despite its many successes, Columbia remained largely uninvolved in the teenage rock'n'roll market until the mid-1960s, despite a handful of crossover hits, largely because of Miller's frequently expressed loathing of rock'n'roll. More recorders and players were introduced by Philips and other manufacturers in the following years, including some portable players and recorders as well as in-dash DCC/radio combinations for automotive use. II (1970), were popular with critics and musicians,[49] but failed to sell sufficiently to reach the Billboard charts. [46], Johnson's first albums, King of the Delta Blues Singers (1961) and King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. Some examples of popular dance bands were Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra, the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, Ben Bernie and his Orchestra, and the Nat Shilkret Orchestra. "The chief value was that the record industry had come back tremendously, especially in the case of two other record companies; and the American Record Company, with all its facilities, had not, so far as I could learn, increased its business in any degree at all in the previous six years. The Mabinogion (Welsh pronunciation: [mabnjn] ()) are the earliest Welsh prose stories, and belong to the Matter of Britain.The stories were compiled in Middle Welsh in the 12th13th centuries from earlier oral traditions. [citation needed], On later generations of recorders, it was possible to enter title information for each track, which was recorded on the auxiliary track after the start-of-track marker. In the same year, former Columbia A&R manager Goddard Lieberson was promoted to President of the entire CBS recording division, which included Columbia and Epic, as well as the company's various international divisions and licensees. In 1997, Columbia made an affiliation with unsigned artist promotion label Aware Records to distribute Aware's artists' music. This was the only DCC recorder that can be connected to, and controlled by a computer, and it was only ever available in the Netherlands. By 1895, Edison had created the Kinetophonea Kinetoscope (peep-hole motion picture viewer) with a phonograph that played inside the cabinet. As southern gospel developed, Columbia had astutely sought to record the artists associated with the emerging genre; for example, Columbia was the only company to record Charles Davis Tillman. According to one source, they continued to mold brown waxes until 1904 with the highest number being 32601, "Heinie", which is a duet by Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan. Scott de Martinville was of Scottish descent. When musical films were not directly taken from stage musicals, they often used Broadway as a subject and back drop, taking place in the world of the stage. At an early age, Thomas Alva Edison showed a fascination for mechanical things and chemical experiments. Because DCCs have no "bulges" near the tape access holes, there is more space in the case behind the cassette to insert, for example, a booklet for a prerecorded tape, or a folded up card on which users could write the contents of the tape. A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that will play a patron's selection from self-contained media.The classic jukebox has buttons, with letters and numbers on them, which are used to select a specific record.Some may use compact discs instead. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. A follow-up album, King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. In addition to White's Earth, Wind & Fire, the Columbia Records-distributed label artist roster included successful R&B and pop singer Deniece Williams, jazz-fusion group Weather Report, and R&B trio the Emotions. Earl Scruggs was born January 6, 1924, in the Flint Hill community of Cleveland County, North Carolina, a small community just outside of Boiling Springs, about 10 miles west of Shelby. [19] The Village Voice, on their Pazz & Jop critics' poll, listed Girlfriend as the #7 best album of 1991. Like analog audio tapes, the heads use half of the tape width in each direction. The company was bought by its English subsidiary, the Columbia Graphophone Company in 1925 and the label, record numbering system, and recording process changed. A phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910) or since the 1940s called a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue recording and reproduction of sound.The sound vibration waveforms are recorded as corresponding physical deviations of a spiral DCC used magneto-resistive (MR) heads 70m wide for playback, and miniaturized coils 185m wide for recording. Super user tapes are tapes that have a continuously recorded stream of audio, with continuous absolute time codes relative to the start of the tape, and contiguously numbered tracks. The label's only significant "pop" acts at the time were Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Paul Revere & The Raiders and Simon & Garfunkel. Remarkably, RCA countered with another quadraphonic process that required a special cartridge to play the "discrete" recordings for four-channel playback. It sold 100,000 copies in its first year and eventually became Nonesuch's first million-selling record. On the fourth or fifth take, all this additional fire and anger would come out, and hed take it out on his instrument. The companies had also worked together on the Digital Audio Tape which was successful in professional environments, but was perceived as too expensive and fragile for consumers. A novelty song is a type of song built upon some form of novel concept, such as a gimmick, a piece of humor, or a sample of popular culture.Novelty songs partially overlap with comedy songs, which are more explicitly based on humor, and with musical parody, especially when the novel gimmick is another popular song.Novelty songs achieved great popularity during the A third influential jazz musician of the decade was a white cornetist and pianist named Bix Beiderbecke. [8], The rag was reissued in 1900 or 1901 with a new cover showing a green maple leaf and a photograph of Joplin. CBS Records had a popular roster of musicians. Shortly afterward RCA Corporation introduced the 45-RPM disc, which could play for up to 8 minutes per side. There is only one DCC recorder that has the capability of being connected to and controlled by a computer: the DCC-175. [15], In December, 1931, the U.S. Columbia Phonograph Company, Inc., was acquired by the Grigsby-Grunow Company, the manufacturers of Majestic radios and refrigerators. The tune continued to be in the repertoire of jazz bands decades later, with artists such as the New Orleans Rhythm Kings in the 1920s, and Sidney Bechet in the 1930s giving it up-to-date adaptations, maintaining a timeless quality to it. In 1979, CBS had a pre-tax income of $51million and sales of over $1billion. Dance music laid the foundation for what would become classic pop standards. The DCC-175 Service Manual[16] shows that in the recorder, the cable is connected to the IS bus that carries the PASC bitstream, and it is also connected to a dedicated serial port of the microcontroller, to allow the PC to control the mechanism and to read and write auxiliary information such as track markers and track titles. By the mid to late 1920s the first full-length talking movies ("talkies"), were being created and commercialized. In September 1970, under the guidance of Clive Davis, Columbia Records entered the West Coast rock market, opening a state-of-the art recording studio (which was located at 827 Folsom St. in San Francisco and later morphed into the Automatt) and establishing an A&R head and office in San Francisco at Fisherman's Wharf, headed by George Daly, a producer and artist for Monument Records (who inked a distribution deal with Columbia at the time) and a former bandmate of Nils Lofgren and Roy Buchanan. [17] LaVere believes that this represents all of Johnson's remaining recordings, but leaves open the possibility that more may exist.[1]. As Sony only had a temporary license on the CBS Records name, it then acquired the rights to the Columbia trademarks (Columbia Graphophone) outside the U.S., Canada, Spain (trademark owned by BMG) and Japan (Nippon Columbia) from EMI, which generally had not been used by them since the early 1970s. Edison had previously made only phonograph cylinders but decided to add a disc format to the product line because of the increasingly dominant market share of the shellac disc records (later called 78s because of their typical rotational speed in revolutions per minute) made by competitors such as the Victor Talking Machine Company.Victor and most other makers Producers selected 25, which Vocalion Records issued on 12 two-sided 78 rpm record singles between 1937 and 1939. Many jazz authorities say that two distinct styles of jazz were formed from the 1920s, and the two styles can be traced to the original styles of either Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke. [76], On January 2, 2018, Ron Perry was named as the chairman and CEO of Columbia Records. His father, George Elam Scruggs, was a farmer and a bookkeeper who died of a protracted illness when Earl was four years old. Philips had developed the Compact Cassette in 1963 and allowed companies to use the format royalty-free,[2] which made it hugely successful but not a significant money-maker. Early attempts to reproduce four channel sound for home playback began with audio laboratory engineers in the late 1960s. Under new head producer George Avakian, Columbia became the most vital label to the general public's appreciation and understanding (with help from Avakian's prolific and perceptive play-by-play liner notes) of jazz, releasing a series of LP's by Louis Armstrong, but also signing to long-term contracts Dave Brubeck and Miles Davis, the two modern jazz artists who would in 1959 record albums that remainmore than sixty years lateramong the best-selling jazz albums by any labelviz., Time Out by the Brubeck Quartet and, to an even greater extent, Kind of Blue by the Davis Sextet, which, in 2003, appeared as number 12 in Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time". Sound recordings published in the U.S. from 1923 to 1946 enter the public domain 100 years after publication. By July, it was releasing new Hillbilly platters by Gene Autry and Bob Wills, and re-issuing past Vocalion discs, using the same catalogue numbers with a leading zero added. As a way of introducing them to the world with a splash, they released their debut album, along with five singles from the album, all on the same day, June 6, 1967, 23 years following D-Day. [28][29], Columbia's president Edward Wallerstein was instrumental in steering Paley towards the ARC purchase. [citation needed], The tracks "Evangeline" and "Your Sweet Voice" were both followed by the sound of a vinyl outgroove and a phonograph needle lifting off a record, which was meant to signify the end of each side of the album as though it were an LP (thus making the final three songs on the album to be, conceptually, considered bonus tracks). His first recordings were indentations embossed into a sheet of tinfoil by a vibrating stylus; the tinfoil was wrapped around a cylinder that was rotated as the sounds were being Melcher and Bruce Johnston discovered and brought to Columbia The Rip Chords, a vocal group consisting of Ernie Bringas and Phil Stewart, and turned it into a rock group through production techniques. [63], A San Francisco group called Moby Grape had been gaining popularity on the West Coast, and were signed by Davis in 1967. In 1976, Columbia Records of Canada was renamed CBS Records Canada Ltd.[40] The Columbia label continued to be used by CBS Canada, but the CBS label was introduced for French-language recordings. Unlike Thomas Edison's later invention of 1877, the phonograph, the phonautograph created only visual images of the sound and did not have the ability to play back its recordings. Columbia decided to start issuing albums at CS-1000 instead, preserving the four-digit catalog number. Radio stations, stores, and other commercial operations would hold competitions for prizes where couples would compete in seeing who could dance for the longest, with some people dancing for days. Hence, there have been many cheap competing collections of Johnson's recordings put out on European CDs. Improved methods of molding disc records followed in the early 20th century, and by 1915 the 78-RPM (revolutions-per-minute) record, with a playing time of about 4 1/2 minutes per side, had become standard. Decca Records in the U.K. was the first to release LPs in Europe, beginning in 1949. [20], Ragtime composition for piano by Scott Joplin, A June 1916 Piano Roll recording of Scott Joplin for, A 1906 recording of the Maple Leaf Rag by the United States Marine Band. Stereophonic sound, or more commonly stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that recreates a multi-directional, 3-dimensional audible perspective.This is usually achieved by using two independent audio channels through a configuration of two loudspeakers (or stereo headphones) in such a way as to create the impression of sound heard from various directions, The head assembly has what Philips called "Fixed Azimuth Tape Guidance" (FATG) pins, which work together with the "Azimuth Locking Pins System" (ALPS) in the cassette to guide the tape.[9]. The Matsushita-designed clam-shell case was slightly thinner than an analog compact cassette case is. CDs do not have SCMS bits as the format predates this system. Updates? Jazz music was important because it influenced fashion, dances, accepted moral standards, youth culture, and race relations. In Canada, Columbia 78s were pressed with the "Walking Eye" logo in 1958. Over 200 recordings were made on his equipment, almost half of all digital classical recordings made in the 1970s. It was also a direct competitor to Sony's MiniDisc (MD), but neither format toppled the then-ubiquitous analog cassette despite their technical superiority, and DCC was discontinued in October 1996. Disc changers are similar devices that are intended for home use, are small 1920 - Dardanella - Ben Selvin, (-) Crazy Blues - Mamie Smith, (-) Whispering - Paul Whiteman, (-) Love Nest - John Steel, (-) Swanee - Al Jolson. [54] The show was based on Miller's 'folksy' but appealing 'chorus' style performance of popular standards. Since the term "LP" has come to refer to the 12-inch .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}33+13 rpm vinyl disk, the first LP is the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor played by Nathan Milstein with Bruno Walter conducting the New York Philharmonic (then called the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York), Columbia ML 4001, found in the Columbia Record Catalog for 1949, published in July 1948. DCC recorders could record from digital sources that used the S/PDIF standard, at sample rates of 32kHz, 44.1kHz or 48kHz, or they could record from analog sources at 44.1kHz. Instead, DCC cases tended to be simple plastic boxes that were open on one of the short sides. Pretax earnings had flattened to about $5million annually. [61][62], In 1967, Brooklyn-born lawyer Clive Davis became president of Columbia. He was worried that Yetnikoff would resent his promotion. In 1902, Columbia introduced the "XP" record, a molded brown wax record, to use up old stock. Both Columbia and RCA's quadraphonic records could be played on conventional stereo equipment. Scott de Martinville was of Scottish descent. The cases that DCCs came in generally did not have the characteristic folding mechanism used for analog compact cassettes. As EMI owned the Columbia trademark at that time, the U.S. Columbia material was issued in Australia and New Zealand on the CBS Coronet label. The phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison in 1877 and it used wax cylinders to play back recordings. Recording digitally from a source marked "protected" and "copy" is not allowed: the record button will not work and any ongoing recordings will stop, and an error message is shown on the display. These recordings were contributed to the Archive by users through the Open Source Audio collection. EMI would not fully adopt the LP format until 1955. When the record is played back, another stylus responds to the undulations, and its motions are then reconverted into sound. Working with the PASC data directly without the need to compress and decompress, also saved a lot of hard disk space, and most computers at the time would have had a hard time compressing and decompressing PASC data in real time anyway. The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. CBS kept the ARC name for three months. [58] But John Hammond and Johnny Cash defended Dylan, who over the next four years became one of Columbia's highest earning acts. The changeover took place starting in late 1961.[50]. Also, because of the time needed for the mechanism to switch direction, there is always a short interruption in the audio between the two sides of the tape. One can infer that Columbia was pressing the first LPs for distribution to their dealers for at least 3 months prior to the introduction of the LP on June 21,[31] 1948. Another competing format, the Digital Audio Tape (DAT), had by 1992 also failed to sell in large quantities to consumers, although it was popular as a professional digital audio storage format. CBS research director Dr. Peter Goldmark played a managerial role in the collaborative effort, but Wallerstein credits engineer William Savory with the technical prowess that brought the long-playing disc to the public.[30]. The gramophone was then created in the late 1880s and it used flat discs to reproduce sound, becoming popular in the early 1900s and replacing the phonograph. An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as digital distribution.Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl long-playing (LP) records The Village Voice, on their Pazz & Jop critics' poll, listed Girlfriend as the #7 best album of 1991. In 1903, Stark issued a "Maple Leaf Rag Song", an arrangement of Joplin's music with words by Sydney Brown. [17] As the copyright has expired, the composition is in the public domain. Alongside his significance as a discoverer, promoter, and producer of jazz, blues, and folk artists during the swing music era, Hammond had already been of great help to Columbia in 193233. In 1935, Herbert M. Greenspon, an 18-year-old shipping clerk, led a committee to organize the first trade union shop at the main manufacturing factory in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The Columbia trademark from this point until the late 1950s was two overlapping circles with the Magic Notes in the left circle and a CBS microphone in the right circle. [12], Johnson's records were initially issued on 78 rpm record singles by Vocalion, one of several labels that specialized in jazz and blues. 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