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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.
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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.
Harry Gennett intended to use the funds from the sale of his shellac ration to modernize this pressing plant after Victory, but there is no indication that he did so, Gennett sold increasingly small numbers of special purpose records ( mostly sound effects, skating rink, and church tower chimes ) until 1947 or 1948, and the business then seemed to just fade away.
The Gennett Walk of Fame is located along South 1st Street in Richmond at the site of the Starr Piano Company and embedded in the Whitewater Gorge Trail, which connects to the longer Cardinal Greenway Trail.
In 1922 the group released the first of several records for Gennett Records, which is located in Richmond, Indiana.
Gene Autry recorded for Gennett on the Champion label and it is said that his horse, Champion, was named for the label.
Gennett and for
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.
The Wolverines recorded 15 sides for Gennett Records between February and October 1924.
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.
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 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.
Also notable was the fact that Hoagy Carmichael recorded " Stardust " for the first time in Richmond at the Gennett recording studio.
Sweatman also continued to record for such labels as Gennett, Edison, Grey Gull, and Victor.
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.
By the late 1920s, Gennett was pressing records for more than 25 labels worldwide, including budget disks for Sears, Roebuck's catalog.
In 1926, Fred Gennett created Champion Records as a budget label for tunes previously released on Gennett.
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.
In the years remaining before World War II, Gennett did contract pressing for a number of New York-based jazz and folk music labels, including Joe Davis, Keynote and Asch.
Joe Davis purchased the Gennett shellac allocation, some of which he used for his own labels, and some of which he sold to the newly organized Capitol Records.
Brunswick acquired the old Gennett pressing plant for Decca.
The Foundation convened its National Advisory Board for the first time in January, 2006, to select the first 10 inductees for the Gennett Records Walk of Fame.
Gennett and wealth
Richmond, Indiana was home to the Gennett Records, known for recording a wealth of jazz, blues, and country music in the 1920s.
Gennett and early
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.
Gennett issued a few early electrically recorded masters recorded in the Autograph studios of Chicago in 1925.
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.
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 ).
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.
Gennett and jazz
Jack Kapp of Decca was primarily interested in some jazz, blues and old time music items in the Gennett catalog which he thought would add depth to the selections offered by the newly organized Decca company.
Some critics have called Roppolo's work on the Rhythm Kings Gennett Records the first recorded jazz solos.
" Stardust " ( the song's original title was " Star Dust ", which has long been compounded into " Stardust ") was written at the Keuka Hotel on Keuka Lake, a Finger Lake in Western New York, on an old upright piano, and first recorded in Richmond, Indiana, for Gennett Records ( Gennett 6311 ) by Carmichael, with Emil Seidel and his Orchestra and the Dorsey brothers as " Hoagy Carmichael and His Pals ," on October 31, 1927, as a peppy ( but mid-tempo ) jazz instrumental.
Milestone has also reissued many historic jazz recording sessions, including the Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, and New Orleans Rhythm Kings sides originally made in the 1920s for Gennett Records.
Gennett and recorded
On February 18, 1924, the Wolverines first recorded at Gennett Records in Richmond, Indiana.
* " 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
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.
* 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 ”.
Originally titled " Star Dust ", Carmichael first recorded the song at the Gennett Records studio in Richmond, Indiana.
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