Romeo | |
Type | Private |
Industry | record label (1926-1938) Entertainment (1926-present) |
Genre | Jazz |
Founded | 1926 United States |
Defunct | April 1938 |
Fate | Active as an Entertainment Company |
Headquarters | United States |
Number of locations | United States International |
Area served | Worldwide |
Parent | Independent (1926-1931) American Record Corporation (1931-1938) S. H. Kress & Co. (1938-1981) Kmart City Products [ disambiguation needed ] (1981-present) |
Website | Romeo Records on the Internet Archive's Great 78 Project |
Romeo Records was an American jazz record label that started in 1926 as a subsidiary of Cameo Records. The discs were sold exclusively at S. H. Kress & Co. department stores [1] and retailed for .25 cents each.
In 1931 Romeo was acquired by the American Record Corporation and continued through 1938 until the cessation of ARC's dime-store labels: (Perfect, Melotone, Banner, and Oriole).
From the beginning, Romeo discs had a maroon label. It was changed to a black label in 1931 and then became blue in 1935.
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