Record industry publicity collection, 1937-1979 (bulk 1946-1955).

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Record industry publicity collection, 1937-1979 (bulk 1946-1955).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/681538208

The collection includes press releases, disc catalogs, scripts from radio programs, monthly publications about new record releases, and promotional posters. The materials were originally created to promote recordings issued by labels such as Capitol, Columbia, Decca, and RCA Victor; broadcasters such as NBC; and performance rights organizations such as ASCAP and BMI.

21.75 linear feet (41 boxes and 8 oversize folders, approximately 17,900 items)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7970657

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National Broadcasting Company

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The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network owned by Comcast. The network is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, with additional major offices near Los Angeles (at 10 Universal City Plaza), and Chicago (at the NBC Tower). NBC is one of the Big Three television networks, and is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network", in reference to its stylized peacock logo, introduced in 1956 to promote the...

Radio Corporation of America. RCA Victor Division

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In 1934 RCA-Victor Company merged with RCA Radiotron Company to form RCA Manufacturing Company; in 1942 this became the RCA Victor Division of the parent company, Radio Corporation of America; headquartered in Camden, N.J. From the description of Notebooks, 1941-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70945475 ...

Decca Records (Firm)

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Peters International, Inc.

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Broadcast Music, Inc.

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Geiringer was vice-president at BMI. From the description of Correspondence from Alma Mahler, 1956. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863014 "The American Story," was created by Broadcast Music, Inc., in association with the Society of American Historians. Designed to bring authoritative American history before wide audiences, "The American Story" was inaugurated in July 1954. From the guide to the "The American Story" Papers, 1954., (C...

Columbia Records, Inc.

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Since the founding of the Columbia Graphophone Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in the late 1880s, Columbia Records has pioneered major developments in all areas of the recording industry. Columbia Graphophone's most successful subsidiary, the Columbia Phonograph Company, distributed cylinder recordings and Edison phonographs in the Maryland, Delaware, and Washington, D.C., region. In 1902 Columbia began issuing recorded discs as well as cylinders, and in 1904 it introduced the double-sided d...

Capitol Records, Inc.

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MGM Records

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American society of composers, authors and publishers

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Taylor and Adams were each president of the ASCAP at the time of their writing; Nissim was in the Serious Music Department; Cunningham signed the television rights agreement on behalf of the ASCAP. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1944-1961. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862820 ...

Columbia Recording Corporation

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RCA Manufacturing Company, inc.

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