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Grey Gull Records | |
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Founded | 1919 |
Founder | Theodore Lyman Shaw |
Defunct | 1934 |
Genre | Jazz, pop |
Country of origin | U.S. |
Location | Boston, Massachusetts |
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 business projects, including the Marcus Lucius Quinn School of Music in Dorchester. He operated an advertising business (Harvard University Class of 1905, 25th Anniversary Report, 575). According to the Massachusetts Department of Corporation and Taxation, Grey Gull was incorporated on December 31, 1919 and dissolved on March 31, 1934. (Acts 1934, c.187)