Velvet Tone Records

Velvet Tone Records
Label of a Velvet Tone Record, c. 1928, featuring Rudy Vallee
Parent companyColumbia Records
Founded1925 (1925)
Defunct1932 (1932)
GenreJazz
Country of originU.S.

Velvet Tone Records was an American record label that was founded by Columbia Records in 1925 and closed in 1932.[1] Velvet Tone featured material identical to that of Columbia's two other low price labels, Harmony Records and Diva Records (and after Diva was discontinued, Clarion Records).[2]

  1. ^ Kernfeld, Barry, ed. (2002). The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Vol. 3 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries Inc. p. 172. ISBN 1-56159-284-6.
  2. ^ Allan Sutton: Directory of American Disc Record Brands and Manufacturers, 1891–1943 (Westport & London, 1994)