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372: 53:. Most of UHD&C's promotional activity took place between January and November 1905. Facing intense competition from much larger companies for the Jewish record market and with an inferior product, UHD&C folded by the end of 1906. Nevertheless, the company holds its place in history as the first ethnically owned and operated producer of recorded sound in America. 44:
UHD&C was formed by Pierre Long and managed by H.W. Perlman. It was incorporated in Brooklyn, New York in 1904 with a capitalization of $ 20,000. It was an outgrowth of Perlman's piano manufacturing business and operated out of the same building that built pianos. The recordings were dubbed
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from master cylinders to disc in a crude process that made for noisy, audibly inferior recordings. Discs by the United Hebrew Disc and Cylinder Company were pressed by at least two companies, the
46: 89:, but no records were issued. It released the earliest known klezmer accordion recordings. The output of UHD&C has been largely documented in 78: 409: 438: 433: 443: 152:
Ethnic Music on Records, a Discography of Ethnic Recordings Produced in the United States, 1893 to 1942; Vol. 3 - Eastern Europe
262: 402: 323: 272: 204: 159: 154:. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. pp. 1299, 1305–1306, 1335, 1362–1363, 1464, 1472, 1483, 1525. 428: 383: 395: 242: 65:. The output of UHD&C was strictly Hebrew and announced as such in a 1905 press release. Some of the 62: 357: 93:
by Richard Spottswood, Greenwood Press (1990). Some record titles and catalog numbers :
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United Hebrew Disc and Cylinder Company's first issued record was a recording pirated from
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who made about 150 records of only Jewish-Hebrew nature beginning in
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This article about a United States record label is a
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record label
1904
1906
International Record Company
Leeds & Catlin
The Gramophone Company
Yiddish
Louis Friedsell
Kalman Juvelier
Regina Prager
Solomon Smulewitz
Abraham Goldfaden


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Sapoznik, Henry
Klezmer!: Jewish Music from Old World to Our World
ISBN
9780857125057
"Corporations"

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