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Bluebird Records | |
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Parent company | RCA/Sony Music Entertainment |
Founded | 1932 |
Founder | Eli Oberstein |
Distributor(s) | Sony Masterworks |
Genre | Blues, jazz, children's music |
Country of origin | U.S. |
Location | Camden, New Jersey, New York City, Chicago, Illinois |
Bluebird Records is an American record label best known for its low-cost releases, primarily of children's music, blues, jazz and swing in the 1930s and 1940s. Bluebird was founded in 1932 as a lower-priced subsidiary label of RCA Victor.[1] Bluebird was noted for what came to be known as the "Bluebird sound", which influenced rhythm and blues and early rock and roll. It is currently owned by RCA Records parent company Sony Music Entertainment.