Record Label Socks
Description: Rose Records: A Chicago Music Retail Icon (1931–1995)** Rose Records, originally launched as *Rose Radio* by Aaron Rosenbloom in 1931, began as a hub for radios, components, and repairs. However, the rising popularity of vinyl records led the company to pivot exclusively to music retail. Rose Records quickly became a cornerstone of Chicago’s music scene, operating 35 stores at its peak and stocking over 100,000 titles at its renowned three-story flagship on Wabash Avenue. With decades of influence and growth across Chicagoland, Rose Records closed its final location in 1995, leaving behind a legacy as one of the Midwest’s most iconic record stores.
Description: US label founded by Jac Holzman in December, 1950, in New York City. The original parent company for the label was the Elektra-Stratford Record Corp. Elektra initially recorded folk music, ethnic music, jazz and gospel, although it later expanded into blues, pop, and rock music.
Description: His Master's Voice (HMV) was the name of a major British record label created in 1901 by The Gramophone Co. Ltd. The phrase was coined in the late 1890s from the title of a painting by English artist Francis Barraud, which depicted a dog named Nipper listening to a wind-up disc gramophone and tilting his head.
Description: Guitars and Instruments: Used by manufacturers like Taylor Guitars as a synthetic compound mixed with ebony shavings for tuning machine buttons, and by National in the 1930s as a black celluloid finish or fingerboard substitute.Early Audio Recordings: Refers to the 5-minute phonograph cylinders and rare 10-inch disc records produced by the Premier Manufacturing Company (associated with Clarion) around 1909.Plastics and Bakelite: Historically used to describe hard black plastics, similar to Bakelite or vulcanized rubber, utilized in items like vintage pipe stems and trim.
Description: Edison Bell was an English company that was the first distributor and an early manufacturer of gramophones and gramophone records. The company survived through several incarnations, becoming a top producer of budget records in England through the early 1930s until, after it was absorbed by Decca in 1932, production of various Edison Bell labels ceased.
Description: US label founded by Jac Holzman in December, 1950, in New York City. The original parent company for the label was the Elektra-Stratford Record Corp. Elektra initially recorded folk music, ethnic music, jazz and gospel, although it later expanded into blues, pop, and rock music.
Description: Grey Gull Records was a record company and label founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1919. The company was started by Theodore Lyman Shaw, a member of an upper class family from Wellesley, Massachusetts. Shaw was involved in a number of business projects, including the Marcus Lucius Quinn School of Music in Dorchester. He operated an advertising business (Harvard University Class of 1905, 25th Anniversary Report, 575). According to the Massachusetts Department of Corporation and Taxation, Grey Gull was incorporated on December 31, 1919 and dissolved on March 31, 1934.
Description: Nipper (c. 1884 – September 1895) was a dog from England. He is best known as the subject of His Master's Voice (1898), painted posthumously by his second owner, Francis Barraud. The painting became an international entertainment trademark, with Nipper's likeness used across record labels, consumer electronics and entertainment retail.
Description: End Records was a record label founded in 1957 by George Goldner. In 1962 the label was acquired by Morris Levy and incorporated into Roulette Records. Among its more successful recording acts were the Flamingos, the Chantels, and Little Anthony and the Imperials; it also recorded singles by Marilyn Monroe and Wilt Chamberlain. In 1988 Roulette was purchased by Rhino Records, and Rhino in turn was sold in the 1990s to what is now the Warner Music Group, which currently owns the End Records archives.
