Disques Vogue was a

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record company founded in

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by Léon Cabat and Charles Delaunay in 1947, the year after the American Vogue label ceased. They originally specialized in

, featuring American performers such as

Sidney Bechet Sidney Joseph Bechet ( ; May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first important Solo (music), soloists in jazz, and first recorded several months before trumpeter Louis Ar ...

Dizzy Gillespie John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie ( ; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improvisation, improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy El ...

, and

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(sessions reissued on CD under

Clifford Brown Clifford Benjamin Brown (October 30, 1930 – June 26, 1956) was an American jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer. He died at the age of 25 in a car crash, leaving behind four years' worth of recordings. His compositions "Sandu", "Joy Sprin ...

's name), in addition to local musicians

Django Reinhardt Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953), known by his Romani people, Romani nickname Django ( or ), was a Belgium, Belgian-born Romani jazz guitarist and composer in France. He was one of the first major jazz talents to emerge in Europe ...

and

Martial Solal Martial Solal (23 August 1927 – 12 December 2024) was a French jazz pianist and composer. Life and career Solal was born in Algiers, French Algeria on 23 August 1927, to Algerian Jewish parents. He was persuaded to study clarinet, saxophone, ...

. In the late 1950s Vogue expanded into

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, recording artists such as

Petula Clark Sally "Petula" Clark (born 15 November 1932) is a British singer, actress, and songwriter. She started her professional career as a child actor, child performer and has had the longest career of any British entertainer, spanning more than 85 y ...

. In the 1960s and early 1970s the label added

Jacques Dutronc Jacques Dutronc (; born 28 April 1943) is a French singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, and actor. Some of Dutronc's best-known hits include " Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille" (which AllMusic has called "his finest hour"), "Le Responsa ...

and

Françoise Hardy Françoise Madeleine Hardy (; 17 January 1944 – 11 June 2024) was a French singer-songwriter, actress, and author. She was known for singing melancholic, sentimental ballads. Hardy rose to prominence in the early 1960s as a leading figure in F ...

. They licensed recordings by

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for release in Belgium and France and European distribution of Recordings of

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. Vogue Records, a British offshoot, was founded in 1951 and absorbed by English Decca (then separate from the American company) around 1956, but the rights to the name reverted to the French parent in 1962, whereupon Decca renamed its Vogue label Vocalion. A new Disques Vogue sister label was established in Britain as part of the Pye Group. The label's catalogue is now part of

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A subsidiary of Disques Vogue was Vogue Schallplatten. It was founded by Karl Plotz and co. in 1960. Die Teenies had a single, "Ein Rosarotes Kleid" bw "He Hully Hully Ho" on Vogue Schallplatten DV 14168, which was released in 1964.

had two singles issued on the label in 1965, they were "Come On My Boy" bw "Darling Verzeih" on Vogue Schallplatten DV 14345 and "

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" bw "Darling Cheri" on Vogue Schallplatten DV 14297. In 1968, "Kiss Me Goodbye" bw "Lass Keinen Tag Vergeh'n" was released on Vogue Schallplatten DV 14719. In 1969, the label released Petula Clark's ''A Touch of Petula Clark'' on Vogue Schallplatten LDVS 17175. It was Re-released in 1973 on Bellaphon BLS 5517. The

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, a German band featuring

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and Oliver Freytag recorded for the label in the 1960s. The three singles they recorded for the label were, "I Need A Time-Machine", " Bakerstreet" and "Herz ist Trumpf", all released in 1968. In the 1970s, Muschler would produce recordings for Marion and Antony,

Jackie Robinson Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first Black American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the Baseball color line, ...

, Daffi Cramer, and writing for

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. Chuck Bennett had some success with his single, " I Can Feel It" bw "Love with a Touch of Soul" (Vogue Shallplatten DV 14915). It became a minor hit for him.(Rock'n'Roll Schallplatten Forum)
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/ref> The first record he had released on the label was "

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" which charted. However, it was the

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composition "I Can Feel It" from The Foundations' album, ''

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'' that gave him the bigger chart success. Others artists include

with her album ''A Touch of Music'' on Vogue Shallplatten LDVS 17 172,

Udo Jürgens Jürgen Udo Bockelmann (30 September 1934 – 21 December 2014), generally known as Udo Jürgens, was an Austrian composer and singer of popular music whose career spanned over 50 years. He won the Eurovision Song Contest 1966 for Austria, ...

with the single "Kiss Me Quick" bw "Tausend Träume" (Vogue Schallplatten DV 14053), and Charles Wilp with his album ''Fotografiert Bunny'' (Vogue Schallplatten – LDVS 17 123).Gripsweat
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