In November, 1928, he recorded 4 sides for Gennett spread over two days ( 1 side was rejected ) and in 1931, he recorded 8 sides for Paramount ( during two sessions ) that were issued on the Broadway and Lyric labels.

After that solitary Gennett session, they recorded two sessions for Brunswick ( a rejected session in Cleveland in late 1926 and an issued session for Vocalion in early 1927 ).

A number of Paramount and Gennett sides were dubbed from clean copies and issued on UHCA and the sound was surprisingly good for a dubbing.

On July 23, 1929 in Richmond, Indiana, Ives did a trial recording of " Behind the Clouds " for the Starr Piano Company's Gennett label, but the recording was rejected and destroyed a few weeks later.

The few Broadway / Decca records were an L-1200 series and masters came from Champion ( Gennett )!

It is sometimes called the " cradle of recorded jazz " because some early jazz records were made here at the studio of Gennett Records, a division of the Starr Piano Company.

Gennett is best remembered for the wealth of early jazz talent recorded on the label, including sessions by Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, The New Orleans Rhythm Kings, " King " Joe Oliver's band with the young Louis Armstrong, Lois Deppe's Serenaders with the young Earl Hines, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, The Red Onion Jazz Babies, The State Street Ramblers, Zach Whyte and his Chocolate Beau Brummels, Alphonse Trent and his Orchestra and many others.

Gennett also recorded early blues artists such as Thomas A. Dorsey, Sam Collins, Jaybird Coleman, and Big Boy Cleveland and early " hillbilly " or country music performers such as Vernon Dalhart, Bradley Kincaid, Ernest Stoneman, Fiddlin ' Doc Roberts, and Gene Autry.

His first recording session took place where trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke made his legendary recordings — in Richmond, Indiana, at the Gennett Studios — both during early 1924.

An early Champion label was produced by Gennett Records ( 1925 – 1934 ) as an inexpensive label that featured country or " hillbilly " artists, as well as popular bands, hot jazz and blues ( many of which had been originally released Gennett's main label ).

Initially the company was dedicated to reissuing early jazz material licensed from the Chicago-based Paramount Records label and Gennett Records.

On February 18, 1924, the Wolverines first recorded at Gennett Records in Richmond, Indiana.

The Wolverines recorded 15 sides for Gennett Records between February and October 1924.

* " Fidgety Feet " / " Jazz Me Blues ," recorded on February 18, 1924, in Richmond, Indiana, and released as Gennett 5408

* " Copenhagen ", recorded on May 6, 1924, and released as Gennett 5453B and Claxtonola 40336B

* " Riverboat Shuffle " / " Susie ( Of the Islands )", recorded on May 6, 1924, and released as Gennett 5454

* " Toddlin ' Blues " / " Davenport Blues ", recorded on January 26, 1925, in Richmond, Indiana, and released as Gennett 5654

They recorded the same two numbers a couple of months later for Gennett under the name of Original New Orleans Jazz Band, and in 1920 the same group recorded again for Gennett as Jimmy Durante's Jazz Band.

Also notable was the fact that Hoagy Carmichael recorded " Stardust " for the first time in Richmond at the Gennett recording studio.

Carmichael finished and recorded one of his most famous songs, " Star Dust " ( later renamed " Stardust ", with Mitchell Parish's lyrics added in 1929 ), at the Gennett Records studio in Richmond, Indiana, with Carmichael doing the piano solo.

At this time the only product Gennett Records produced under its own name was a series of recorded sound effects for use by radio stations.

* 2012 PBS History Detectives episode " Fiery Cross " regarding Klan records recorded at Gennett

The group recorded a series of records for Gennett Records in 1922 and 1923.

In the first session at Gennett, the Friars Society Orchestra ( The name that they released the record under ) recorded 8 songs: “ Panama ”, “ Tiger Rag ”, “ Livery Stable Blues ” representing the New Orleans Jazz “ standbys ” as well as some originals of the group, “ Oriental ”, “ Discontented Blues ”, and “ Farewell Blues ” as well as a never-released ODJB song called “ Eccentric ”.

Some critics have called Roppolo's work on the Rhythm Kings Gennett Records the first recorded jazz solos.

Originally titled " Star Dust ", Carmichael first recorded the song at the Gennett Records studio in Richmond, Indiana.

In 1935 the Starr Piano Company sold some Gennett masters, and the Gennett and Champion trademarks to Decca Records.

Aco seems to have made no recordings themselves, instead taking masters from both British and US Aeolian, as well as leasing masters from U. S. based Gennett Records.

In 1927, the Gennett studios in Richmond, Indiana, made a recording of black fiddler Jim Booker with other instrumentalists ; their recordings were labeled " made for Hillbilly " in the Gennett files, and were marketed to a white audience.

Gennett set up recording studios in New York City and later, in 1921, set up a second studio on the grounds of the piano factory in Richmond, Indiana under the supervision of Ezra C. A.

The majority of her records in the ' 20s were for the Victor Talking Machine Company, but she also recorded with other labels with recording studios in the New York City area, including Edison, Pathe, Okeh, Brunswick, Vocalion, Gennett and others.

Although no longer releasing sides under his own label, Orlando Marsh continued to make recordings in Chicago for other labels ( including Paramount, Gennett, and Black Patti ) through the end of the 1920s.

They returned to Chicago and scheduled another session with Gennett Records as the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.

Popular in Black vaudeville in the American midwest in the late 1910s and 1920s, she appeared often in Chicago and Cincinnati, and made recordings for seven different record labels in 1923 and 1924: Victor, Vocalion, Columbia, Gennett, Brunswick, Ajax, and Paramount Records.

1925 Gennett 78, 5654-B, " Davenport Blues ".

1925 Gennett 78, 5654-B, " Davenport Blues ".

From 1925 to 1934, Gennett released recordings by hundreds of " old-time music " artists, precursors to country music, including such artists as Doc Roberts and Gene Autry.

Hunter recorded prolifically during the 1920s, starting with sessions for Black Swan in 1921, Paramount in 1922 – 1924, Gennett in 1924, OKeh in 1925 – 1926, Victor in 1927 and Columbia in 1929.

Starr Gennett Foundation Inc .. Retrieved September 19, 2010.

Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Studios and the Birth of Recorded Jazz.

Oliver was inducted as a charter member of the Gennett Records Walk of Fame in Richmond, Indiana in 2007.

Although many associate Welk's music with a style quite separate from jazz, he did record one notable song in a ragtime style in November 1928 for Indiana-based Gennett Records.

In addition to the above mentioned " Spiked Beer ", Welk's territory band made occasional trips to Richmond, Indiana and to Grafton, Wisconsin to record a handful of sessions for the Gennett and Paramount companies.

In 2007, he became a charter member of the Gennett Records Walk of Fame in Richmond, Indiana.

The US label also brought back the discontinued Champion label ( from Gennett ), as well as a short-lived version of the Broadway label.

Sweatman also continued to record for such labels as Gennett, Edison, Grey Gull, and Victor.

" In 2007, he became a charter member of the Gennett Records Walk of Fame in Richmond, Indiana.

* In 2007 Carmichael was inducted into the Gennett Records Walk of Fame in Richmond, Indiana.

Gennett ( pronounced with a soft G ) was a United States based record label which flourished in the 1920s.

Gennett records was founded in Richmond, Indiana by the Starr Piano Company, and released its first records in October 1917.

The company took its name from its top managers: Harry, Fred and Clarence Gennett.