Vogue Records
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This article is about the 1940s-era Vogue Records in the U.S. and Disques Vogue, a longer-lived label in France; there is also a Vogue Records International based in Ottawa.
Vogue Records is the name of two companies/labels founded in the 1940s.
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USA
Vogue Records was a short-lived United States based record label of the 1940s, noted for the artwork embedded in the records themselves. Founded in 1946 as part of Sav-Way Industries of Detroit, Michigan, the discs were initially a hit, because of the novelty of the colorful artwork, and the improved sound compared to the shellac records dominant at the time. The discs were manufactured by first sandwiching printed illustrations around a core of aluminum, then coating both sides with clear vinyl upon which the grooves were stamped.
The company went out of business the following year, having released betweem 67 and 74 double-sided 78 rpm gramophone records. Some of the Vogue issues were re-releases of recordings originally issued by other companies.
The colorful artwork on the records have made Vogue Records a collector's item.
France
An unrelated Disques Vogue was founded in France in 1947, the same year that the USA Vogue closed shop. They originally specialized in jazz recordings, featuring such artists as Sidney Bechet, Django Reinhardt, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, and Errol Garner. In the late 1950s Vogue expanded into pop music, recording Petula Clark and other popular singers of the era.
The label's United Kingdom sister label was Pye Nixa Records. The label's catalog is today part of Sony BMG.
See also
External links
- What's a Vogue Picture Record? (http://www.voguepicturerecords.org/records.html) from "The Association of Vogue Picture Record Collectors"
- Vogue Records, Appealing to the Ear and the Eye (http://www.go-star.com/antiquing/vogue.htm), from Southeastern Antiquing and Collecting Magazine
- Vogue Picture Records from the Todd Collection (http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/pa/vstate.html) at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library