Victor Talking Machine Company
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Camden, New Jersey...with access to Philadelphia. From 1901 through 1929, Camden was headquarters of the Victor Talking Machine Company, and thereafter to its successor RCA Victor, the world's largest manufacturer of phonographs and phonograph records for the... In this article: Philadelphia, Delaware River, GE, RCA, Howard Unruh, Campbell Soup Company, Lockheed Martin, and New Jersey |
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
John Philip Sousa
...to conduct his band if it was being recorded. Nevertheless, Sousa's band made numerous recordings for the Victor Talking Machine Company (later RCA Victor ), usually conducted by Arthur Pryor. A handful of the Victor recordings were actually...
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Roy Smeck
...Harmony Company of Chicago. He made over 500 recordings for various companies, including Edison Records, Victor Talking Machine Company, Columbia Records, Decca Records, Crown Records, RCA Records and others. He also wrote...
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ResourceShelf | August 08, 2009
UC Santa Barbara Library Awarded Second NEH Grant to Document Historical Sound Recordings by Victor Talking Machine Company
...Humanities (NEH) grant to further develop an online encyclopedia of all the recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company (which later became RCA Victor) between 1900-1950. The discography of Victor records is making the history of...
In this article: University of California, Santa Barbara, RCA Victor, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, National Endowment for the Humanities, and United States
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Library of Congress - News | June 10, 2009
Seventh Annual Recording Registry Announced
...and exceptional tonal beauty. Soon after his debut, Heifetz started recording for the Victor Talking Machine Company, maintaining a relationship with Victor, and later RCA Victor, over the course of his career. The acoustic recordings, made...
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
...the gramophone record industry at the time. This angered Rachmaninoff, and he left Edison and signed a contract with the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1920 and with its successor, RCA Victor . The company was pleased to comply with...
In this article: Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Zverev, Alexander Siloti, Alexander Scriabin, Eugene Ormandy, Anton Rubinstein, and C Sharp
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CBS News | June 14, 2009
Preserving The Sounds Of The Century
...Nat M. Wills. Acoustic Recordings for Victor Records (1917-1924) by Jascha Heifetz, the master violinist who was 16 years old when he began recording for the Victor Talking Machine Company (later RCA Victor). "Night Life" (1930), an...
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Enrico Caruso
...initial recordings. Caruso made more than 260 extant recordings for the Victor Talking Machine Company (later RCA Victor) over an 16-year period and earned millions of dollars from the sale of the resulting 78-rpm discs. These...
In this article: Enrico Caruso, Naples, New York City, Victor Emmanuel III, Thomas Edison, Giacomo Puccini, San Francisco, and World War One
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James Harbord
...one of four corporations that jointly formed RKO Pictures. Finally, in 1929, RCA acquired the Victor Talking Machine Company (maker of the famous "Victrola") and became RCA-Victor. In 1928, Harbord took a leave of absence to campaign for...
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Josef Pasternack
...African-American singer to perform there. Starting in 1916 he also was Musical Director of the Victor Talking Machine Company (later RCA Victor) with Rosario Bourdon, where likewise he (Pasternack) introduced Marian Anderson, and the...
In this article: Marian Anderson, New York, Taps, Arturo Toscanini, Rosario Bourdon, Poland, and Enrico Caruso
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The Victor Talking Machine Company (1901–1929) was an American corporation, the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. It was headquartered in Camden, New Jersey.
The company was founded by Eldridge R. Johnson, who had previously made phonographs to play Emile Berliner's Berliner Gramophone records. Some sources also claim Berliner as a co-founder; others say Berliner was never connected with the Victor company, though that may have been part of a ruse by Johnson to defeat the Zonophone lawsuits that had put Berliner Gramophone out of business (in the U.S. but reestablished in Canada) and threatened Johnson's phonograph business. (Zonophone had used patent ruses to defeat Berliner, the inventor of disc records whose technology Zonophone had copied.) In any event, Victor ultimately acquired the remaining assets of Berliner Gramophone; it also acquired Zonophone after defeating it in court.
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