* Mair, Victor H. The Columbia History of Chinese Literature ( Columbia University Press, 2001 ).

* Record companies ( such as Victor, Brunswick and Columbia ) introduce an electrical recording process on their phonograph records in 1925 ( that had been developed by Western Electric ), resulting in a more lifelike sound.

From the beginning of their relationship, Mills arranged recording sessions on nearly every label including Brunswick, Victor, Columbia, OKeh, Perfect, Pathe, the ARC / Plaza group of labels ( Cameo, Romeo, Lincoln, Oriole, Domino, Jewel, Banner ), Hit of the Week, and Columbia's cheaper labels ( Harmony, Diva, Velvet Tone, Clarion ) labels which gave Ellington popular recognition, as well giving Ellington's fans the opportunity of hearing multiple versions of the same song.

In the main, during November, 1926 and 1930, he recorded concurrently for Brunswick-Vocalion, OKeh, and Victor, along with a handful of sessions for Columbia and the dime store labels ( Cameo, Lincoln, Romeo, Perfect ).

In the wake of the group's success for the Victor release, in May the band returned to Columbia, recording two selections of popular tunes of the day chosen for them by the record company ( possibly hoping to avoid the copyright problems which arose after Victor recorded two of the band's supposedly original compositions ) " Darktown Strutter's Ball " and "( Back Home Again in ) Indiana " as catalogue # A-2297.

The seminal 78 releases by the band include the following Victor, Columbia, and Aeolian Vocalion recordings:

After their initial recording for Victor, they recorded for Columbia ( after the first Victor session, not before as has sometimes been said ) and Aeolian-Vocalion in 1917, and returned to make more sides for Victor the following year, while enjoying continued popularity in New York.

* December 12, 1935: New York City, New York, Victor Koussow, a Russian laboratory worker at the School of Dental and Oral Surgery, shot Prof. Arthur Taylor Rowe, Prof. Paul B. Wiberg, and wounded Dr. William H. Crawford at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, before committing suicide.

After extended negotiations, Monk signed in 1962 to Columbia Records, one of the big four American record labels of the day along with RCA Victor, Capitol, and Decca.

In addition to the Millicent Martin studio recording of " In the Summer of His Years " issued in the US by ABC-Paramount, other versions were recorded and released by Connie Francis ( MGM ), Mahalia Jackson ( Columbia ), Kate Smith ( RCA Victor ), Sarah Vaughan ( Vernon ) and The Chad Mitchell Trio ( Mercury ); the Francis recording became a Top 40 hit on the Cash Box pop singles chart in January 1964.

In May 1928 Whiteman signed with Columbia Records, and recorded for the label until September 1931, when he returned to RCA Victor.

A 15-chapter movie serial produced by Columbia Pictures and starring Victor Jory premiered in theaters in 1940.

In Britain, Decca bought out the bankrupt UK branch of Brunswick Records in 1932, which added such stars as Bing Crosby and Al JolsonAl Jolson, who had recorded for the Victor Talking Machine, Columbia Records, and Brunswick Records, made a series of recordings for Decca from 1946 until his death in 1950, following the success of Columbia Pictures Technicolor film biography The Jolson Story ( 1946 ).< sub >< citation needed ></ sub ></ ref >

In 1957, to replace the loss of its long-established licensing arrangements with RCA Victor and Columbia Records ( Columbia USA cut its ties with EMI in 1951 ) and EMI entered the American market by acquiring 96 % of the stock for Capitol Records USA.

Stock and the CSO made numerous recordings for Columbia Records and the Victor Talking Machine Company, renamed RCA Victor in 1929.

By 1919, Lewis was leading his own band, and had a recording contract with Columbia Records, which marketed him as their answer to the Original Dixieland Jass Band who recorded for Victor records.

Unfortunately, a Musicians Union recording ban from 1942 to 1944 prevented immediate retakes ; by the time the ban ended, the Philadelphia Orchestra had left RCA Victor for Columbia Records and RCA apparently was hesitant to promote the orchestra any further.

Partly as an attempt to compete with the LP, introduced in 1948 by rival Columbia Records, RCA Victor introduced " Extended Play " 45s during 1952.

The American RCA label severed its longtime affiliation with EMI's His Master's Voice ( HMV ) label in 1957, which allowed British Decca to market and distribute Elvis Presley's recordings in the UK on the RCA label ( later RCA Victor ).

Nipper continued to appear on RCA Victor records in America ( except for a period from around 1968 to 1977 ), while EMI owned the His Master's Voice label in the UK until the 1980s, and the HMV shops until 1998.

This image was the basis for the dog and gramophone logo used by several audio recording and associated brands: His Master's Voice, HMV, EMI, RCA, Victor Talking Machine Company, RCA Victor and JVC.

A modified form of the painting became the successful trademark of Victor and HMV records, HMV music stores, and RCA.

His entire catalog of commercial recordings was issued by RCA Victor, save for two single-sided recordings for Brunswick in 1926 ( his first by the electrical process ) with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and a series of excellent recordings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1937 to 1939 for EMI's HMV label ( which was RCA Victor's European affiliate ).

All of the commercially issued RCA Victor and HMV recordings have been digitally re-mastered and released on compact disc.

In April 2012, RCA Red Seal released a new 84 CD boxed set reissue of Toscanini's complete RCA Victor recordings and original HMV recordings with the BBC Symphony.

JVC is generally known within Japan by the Victor brand, preceded by the His Master's Voice ( HMV ) logo featuring the dog Nipper, but can use this logo only inside Japan.

She recorded extensively for Victor and HMV.

The greater part of his discography was recorded for HMV and Victor, with whom he had an exclusive relationship through 1950.

*" Troubled "/" Plantation Moods ," recorded November 20, 1934, New York, Victor 24834, HMV B. D.

He made more than 130 78-rpm records, both acoustic and electric, first for Pathé Frères in Paris in 1904, and then exclusively for Victor ( the Gramophone Company / HMV in England ), beginning in 1907 and concluding in the 1920s.

Other discs of arias singled out for praise by Pleasants, Steane and / or Scott include Ruffo's acoustic Victor / HMV versions of the following arias: " Pari siamo ", " Urna fatale ", " Credo in un Dio crudel ", " Tremin gl ' insani ", " Buona Zazà, del mio buon tempo ", " Nemico della partria " and the " Prologo " from Pagliacci.

He mainly recorded for Pathé and The Gramophone Company ( HMV )-whose masters were released as Victor records in the US, as well as Columbia cylinders and records.

Since JVC Kenwood Holdings ( through its JVC and Victor Entertainment subsidiaries ) controls the His Master's Voice trademark in Japan, HMV Japan uses as its trademark a stylized gramophone of its own design.

She recorded for the HMV ( His Master's Voice ), RCA Victor and Mercury labels.

A number of recordings were made for HMV / Victor through 1938 ; from 1940 through 1967 it recorded for Columbia Records.

Since 1925 they had been making recordings for His Master's Voice, first at the Beethoven Saal in Berlin, then at Abbey Road Studio in London and from 1938 at Camden, New Jersey for RCA Victor, the US subsidiary of HMV.

* Quartet no 2 in G major, op 18 no 2 ( rec 1938: see HMV / Victor, above ).

* Quartet no 3 in D major, op 18 no 3 ( rec 1935: see HMV / Victor, above ).

* Quartet no 7 in F major, op 59 ' Rasumovsky ' no 1 ( rec 1930s: see HMV / Victor, above ).

* Quartet no 8 in E minor, op 59 ' Rasumovsky ' no 2 ( rec 1935: see HMV / Victor, above ).

By the time of the First World War, the mass advertising and popularity of the Victor Talking Machine Company's Victrolas ( a line of disc-playing machines characterized by their concealed horns ) was leading to widespread generic use of the word " victrola " for any machine that played discs, which were however still called " phonograph records " or simply " records ", almost never " victrola records ".

A Victor V phonograph ca.

In 1929, RCA purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the world's largest manufacturer of phonographs ( including the famous " Victrola ") and phonograph records.

The cheap home machines sold as the $ 10 Eagle graphophone and the $ 40 ( later $ 30 ) Home phonograph in 1896, the $ 20 Zon-o-phone in 1898, the $ 3 Victor Toy in 1900, and so on.

The iconic image of a mixed fox / bull terrier, Nipper looking into a phonograph became an international symbol of quality and excellence for the Victor Talking Machine Company.

JVC was founded in 1927 as " The Victor Talking Machine Company of Japan, Limited ," a subsidiary of the United States ' leading phonograph and record company, the Victor Talking Machine Company.

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.

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 not in Canada, the UK, or Germany ) and threatened Johnson's phonograph business.

A Victor V phonograph, about 1907

In 1929, Radio Corporation of America ( RCA ) purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the world's largest manufacturer of phonographs ( including the famous " Victrola ") and phonograph records ( in British English, " gramophone records ").

Cantor began making phonograph records in 1917, recording both comedy songs and routines and popular songs of the day, first for Victor, then for Aeoleon-Vocalion, Pathé and Emerson.

They made numerous phonograph records for the Emerson, Victor, and Columbia record companies.

The phonograph record was invented by Thomas Edison in Menlo Park, and the Victor Talking Machine Company established its headquarters and plant in Camden.

Edison had previously concentrated on producing phonograph cylinders but decided to get into the disc market due to the increasing market share of disc sound recordings, especially the discs of companies such as Victor Talking Machine Company ( the format of which would evolve into " 78 records ").

The Brunswick Ultona and the Sonora Phonograph were the only machines besides the Diamond Disc player that could play Diamond Discs, but Edison made an attempt at curbing this ( a phonograph / gramophone that could play Edison, Victor / lateral 78s, and Pathé discs ) by stating " This Re-Creation should not be played on any instrument except the Edison Diamond Disc Phonograph and with the Edison Diamond Disc Reproducer, and we decline responsibility for any damage that may occur to it if this warning is ignored.

In 1942, MacMillan conducted the Toronto Symphony Orchestra ( TSO ) in a recording of the orchestral suite The Planets, by Gustav Holst, recorded on 78 RPM < span class =" plainlinks "> phonograph records, for RCA Victor.

During the Second World War, MacMillan conducted the TSO in a recording of Pomp and Circumstance March No. 2, by Sir Edward Elgar, recorded on 78 RPM < span class =" plainlinks "> phonograph records, for RCA Victor.

The Victor Talking Machine Company, founded in 1901, became the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records.

The earliest known recording of the phrase in use was on a 1904 Victor phonograph record, " The Camp Meeting Jubilee " by the Haydn Quartet, with the words " We've been rockin ' an ' rolling in your arms / Rockin ' and rolling in your arms / Rockin ' and rolling in your arms / In the arms of Moses.

" In 1913 and 1914 he made a series of phonograph records for the Victor Talking Machine Company.

Marlowe and Sothern made eleven phonograph recordings for the Victor company in 1920 and 1921.