 Columbia Records - Columbia artists: Encyclopedia - Columbia RecordsColumbia Records is the oldest continually used brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888.
Columbia was originally the local company distributing and selling Edison phonographs and phonograph cylinders in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Delaware. As was the custom of some of the regional phonograph companies, Columbia produced many commercial cylinder recordings of its own. Columbia severed its ties to Edison and the North American Phonograph Company in 1893, and thereafter sold ...
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