Perfect Records was a
United States
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-based
record label
A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the prod ...
, founded in 1922 by
Pathé Records to produce cheap
78 rpm discs.
From the start, Perfect Records sold well. The Pathé and Perfect labels were part of the merger that created the
American Record Corporation (ARC) in July 1929. After the merger, ARC weeded out some of their poorer-selling labels (Pathé, for example), and Perfect continued to be a successful label through the 1930s until ARC dropped their entire group of cheaper labels in late 1938.
The label was revived in 1993 by Dean Blackwood and issued recordings pressed on 78 r.p.m. vinyl by
Sun City Girls,
Charlie Feathers,
Junior Kimbrough,
The Balfa Brothers, and
John Fahey.
See also
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List of record labels
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References
External links
Perfect Recordson the Internet Archive'
Great 78 Project
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Record labels established in 1993
Re-established companies
Defunct record labels of the United States
Jazz record labels
Record labels established in 1922