Wisconsin 101

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

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

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