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The Record Production Process

Paramount Record’s parent company, the United Phonographic Corporation, a subsidiary of the Wisconsin Chair Company, decided to begin recording and pressing records to include with their phonograph cabinets in the early 1920s. Paramount initially recorded in studios throughout the United States. They…

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February 24, 2014

Art, Sport & Entertainment / Port Washington / Music, Theatre & Cinema / Ethnicity & Identity / Ozaukee County / Related Stories / Wisconsin Made / Manufacturing & Trade / 1918-1945 / Region 8 - South East / Paramount Records 78

Paramount Records

The Wisconsin Chair Company’s (WCC) decision to enter the record label industry was an economic one. With their subsidiary company, the United Phonographic Corporation (UPC), picking up steam, management at the WCC began pressing records. The UPC’s first record labels, Puritan and…

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February 24, 2014

Home Furnishings / Industry / Port Washington / Ozaukee County / Related Stories / Everyday Life / 1877-1900 / Manufacturing & Trade / 1900-1918 / 1918-1945 / Region 8 - South East / Paramount Records 78

The Wisconsin Chair Company

Founded in 1888 by Frederick A. Dennett, the Wisconsin Chair Company (WCC) was perhaps the most important business in Ozaukee County at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. The company, located along the northern shore of the…

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February 16, 2014

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OBJECT HISTORY: Paramount Records 78

Created by the management of the Wisconsin Chair Company, a furniture making business based in Port Washington, Wisconsin, Paramount Records was initially incorporated to help sell phonographic cabinets in the late 1910s. Relying on resourceful talent recruiters and a relatively cheap production process, Paramount Records became one of the leading blues music record producers in the 1920s, and is today recognized by…

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February 10, 2014