Bingola Records was a
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"Big Three" music labels
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of the 1920s. It was manufactured by
Grey Gull Records
Grey Gull Records was a record company and label founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1919. The company was started by Theodore Lyman Shaw, a member of an upper class family from Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Shaw was involved in a number of busine ...
of
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, and is one of the rarest and most short-lived labels produced by that company.
The records were produced for the Bing Corporation of
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, the U.S. branch of the German
Bing Werke company of
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, which in 1925 had introduced its own line of phonographs called "Bingophone".
The Bingola label was registered as a
trademark
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in October 1927 and seems to have been produced only briefly during this year and 1928. Known issues re-use ordinary Grey Gull masters, but the label's catalogue numbers (in a 1000-series) have no visible connection with the equivalent issues on the company's other labels.
Reference works long cited 1008 as the highest known catalogue number of a Bingola issue. However in 2008 a copy of Bingola 1011 (see photo) was sold by the vintage record dealer Kurt Nauck.
See also
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List of record labels
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Grey Gull Records
Grey Gull Records was a record company and label founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1919. The company was started by Theodore Lyman Shaw, a member of an upper class family from Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Shaw was involved in a number of busine ...
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Sources
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Brian Rust
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: ''The American Record Label Book'' (New York, 1984)
* Allan Sutton: ''Directory of American Disc Record Brands and Manufacturers, 1891-1943'' (Westport & London, 1994)
* Nauck's Vintage Records, auction catalogue #43 (spring 2008)
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