Victor Talking Machine Company

...Stars, two of the biggest selling music groups in Japan. Producing records since 1928, Victor Entertainment was the music business of Victor Talking Machine Company's Japan branch and was spun off as a record company in 1972. It currently...

In this article: Konami, Victor Entertainment, Japan, Avex, Sony Music Entertainment Japan, SMAP, and Southern All Stars

...only for Victor Records. As Johnson intended, much of the public assumed from this that Victor Records must be superior to cylinder records. The Victor recordings by Enrico Caruso between 1904-1920 were particularly successful, with those...

In this article: Victor Herbert, Eldridge R. Johnson, Francis Barraud, Berliner Gramophone, Emile Berliner, Enrico Caruso, RCA Records, Zonophone, and Compo Company

...Stage back to Bristol, Tenn. /Va., where the Carter Family (including Mother Maybelle Carter) recorded its first successful sides for the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1927. Those sessions also gave birth to stars such as Jimmie Rodgers...

In this article: Jimmie Rodgers, Robin and Linda Williams, and Bristol

...won, in spite of the negative verdict against Berliner. This victory by Johnson, which would be used in naming the new record company the Victor Talking Machine Company he would found the following year, may have been in part due to a...

In this article: Gramophone Company, Emile Berliner, Eldridge R. Johnson, Thomas Edison, EMI, HMV, Trademark, and Dog

...earliest images associated with a phonograph was a fox terrier with an ear cocked to the sound. Nipper the dog became a trademark of the Victor Talking Machine Co. in 1901. High-flying Sidney probably won't be as memorable as Nipper in 100...

In this article: Dog, Weezer, Trademark, Komondor, National Geographic Magazine, The Shepherd's Dog, Victor Talking Machine Co., and Iron and Wine

...Act made music more potentially profitable. and recording companies fought for their share of Americans' entertainment dollars. The Victor Talking Machine Company became a leader thanks to the star power of tenor Enrico Caruso. But no...

In this article: Greg Kot, The Beatles, Radiohead, Dog, and Billboard

In August 1927, Ralph Peer, a talent scout for the Victor Talking Machine Co. in New York, traveled to Bristol, Tenn., where he set up a makeshift studio in a warehouse and presided over the first recorded performances of Jimmie Rodgers and...

In this article: Charlie Poole, Loudon Wainwright III, Ralph Peer, Columbia Records, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, North Carolina, and Tennessee

...Land and Property Values in the U.S. » UC Santa Barbara Library Awarded Second NEH Grant to Document Historical Sound Recordings by Victor Talking Machine Company The University Library at University of California, Santa Barbara, has...

In this article: University of California, Santa Barbara, RCA Victor, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, National Endowment for the Humanities, and United States

...in Dover, which celebrates the life and accomplishments of recording pioneer Eldridge Reeves Johnson, a Delaware native who started the Victor Talking Machine Co. That museum will be open 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. the first Saturday of each month...

In this article: Dover, Delaware, and John Dickinson Plantation

...division of Radio Corp. of America. At Victor's Pub, on the first floor, the cabinet of a Victrola serves as a hostess stand, and 78 r.p.m. RCA Victor records with the familiar maroon labels hang on the walls. In the lobby of the Victor...

In this article: Nipper, RCA, RCA Victor, and Legal age