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Biograph Records

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Parent company
  
Shout! Factory

Country of origin
  
U.S.

Founder
  
Arnold S. Caplin

Genre
  
Jazz, blues, ragtime

Parent organization
  
Shout! Factory

Date founded
  
1967

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Location
  
Somerville, Massachusetts

Albums
  
Greatest of the Delta Blues Singers, Big Daddy

Biograph Records is a record label founded in 1967 by Arnold S. Caplin that specialized in early American ragtime, jazz, and blues music. Its reissues includes Bunny Berigan, Bing Crosby, The California Ramblers, Ruth Etting, Benny Goodman, Earl Hines, George Lewis, Ted Lewis, Jimmy O'Bryant, Jabbo Smith, Jack Teagarden, Ethel Waters, and Clarence Williams.

In 1970 Biograph bought the rights from QRS Records to release records made from piano rolls, and these included the work of Scott Joplin and Fats Waller. It also bought Melodeon Records and Dawn Records.

In 2002, Biograph Records was acquired by Shout! Factory. Between 2007 and 2008, Collectables Records reissued forty compact discs' worth of Biograph recordings.

References

Biograph Records Wikipedia