Bingola Record
Bingola Records was a United States record label of the 1920s. It was manufactured by Grey Gull Records of Boston, Massachusetts, and is one of the rarest and most short-lived labels produced by that company. The records were produced for the Bing Corporation of New York City, the U.S. branch of the German Bing Werke company of Nuremberg, which in 1925 had introduced its own line of phonographs called "Bingophone".
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Bingola Record
Label design: unknown · Original record in the collection of Fredrik Tersmeden, Lund, Sweden. · Public domain
- Name
- Bingola Records
- Founded
- 1927
- Headquarters
- New York City
- Dissolved
- 1928
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The Bingola label was registered as a trademark in October 1927 and seems to have been produced only briefly during this year and 1928. Known issues re-use ordinary Grey Gull masters, but the label's catalogue numbers (in a 1000-series) have no visible connection with the equivalent issues on the company's other labels. Reference works long cited 1008 as the highest known catalogue number of a Bingola issue. However in 2008 a copy of Bingola 1011 (see photo) was sold by the vintage record dealer Kurt Nauck.
It is associated with United States. The record gives 1927 as its date of establishment or first appearance. Activity is recorded as ending in 1928. Recorded genres are traditional folk music and country music. Its recorded seat is New York City.
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• Name — Bingola Records • Parent — Grey Gull Records • Founded — 1927 • Defunct — 1928
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1927
Bingola Record established.
1927
Bingola Record is recorded from 1927.
1928
Bingola Record ceased.
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- “Bingola Records”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Brian Rust: The American Record Label Book (New York, 1984)
- Allan Sutton: Directory of American Disc Record Brands and Manufacturers, 1891-1943 (Westport & London, 1994)
- Nauck's Vintage Records, auction catalogue #43 (spring 2008)
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