Broadway Records
1921-1935
Broadway Records was a budget label founded by the New York Recording Laboratories, owner of Paramount Records. It originally sold for 39¢, mainly in Montgomery Ward and other department stores. For the first few years, most masters issued by the label came from Paramount with Banner and Emerson contributing some after 1924. The Bridgeport Die and Machine Company of Connecticut pressed Broadways until its closure in 1925, prompting the NYRL to take over the duty directly. Physical quality of the records, good under Bridgeport, began to decline at this time. Paramount’s New York studio closed the following year and this was when many masters began to be procured from Plaza-ARC. Most of those same masters would also be used for the many labels of that group, usually with pseudonyms used between them. Paramount masters still occasionally appeared but increased their representation again as the NYRL ended relations with ARC in 1930. Yet, ARC took over the label when the NYRL went out-of-business in 1932 and their masters were used again until 1934. Decca Records bought the label that year as a vehicle to reissue classic Paramount, Gennett and Champion sides but discontinued it in 1935 after a short run. During the life of the label though, it released a good deal of groundbreaking Jazz, Blues and Country due to its association with these parent labels.
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Is She My Girl Friend	Sally's Got A Baby
Midnight Ramblers (pseudonym for Harry Reser's Orchestra)	Wisconsin Roof Orchestra
Broadway 1122-A	Broadway 1122-B
Matrix# 7602 (944) (1203), Take 1	Matrix# 20120 (Paramount), Take ?
November 4, 1927	ca. October 1927
New York, New York	Chicago, Illinois
Note: Worn.	Note: Worn.

Slue Foot	Lonely Little Bluebird
Bill Haid's Cubs	Bill Haid's Cubs
Broadway 1187-A	Broadway 1187-B
Matrix# 20707 (Paramount), Take 2	Matrix# 20711 (Paramount), Take 3
July 1928	July 1928
Chicago, Illinois	Chicago, Illinois

Am I Blue	Let Me Have My Dreams
Checker Box Boys (pseudonym for Lou Gold and His Orchestra)	Checker Box Boys (pseudonym for Lou Gold and His Orchestra)
Broadway 1287-A	Broadway 1287-B
Matrix# 8787 (1259) (2284), Take 2	Matrix# 8788 (1260) (2286), Take 3
May 31, 1929	May 31, 1929
New York, New York	New York, New York
Note: Worn.	Note: Worn.

I Want A Pardon For My Daddy	The Crepe On The Old Cabin Door
Wolfe Ballard (pseudonym for Vernon Dalhart)	Wolfe Ballard (pseudonym for Vernon Dalhart)
Broadway 8021-A	Broadway 8021-B
Matrix# 6785-2 (387)	Matrix# 6850-2 (388)
September 22, 1926	October 18, 1926
New York, New York	New York, New York

The Arkansas Traveler	Sailors Hornpipe
John Barton (pseudonym for John Baltzell)	John Barton (pseudonym for John Baltzell)
Broadway 8051-A	Broadway 8051-B
Matrix# 7134 (622A)	Matrix# 7136 (626)
ca. late March 1927	ca. late March 1927
New York, New York	New York, New York

Hand Me Down My Walking Cane	A Picture From Life's Other Side
Harkins and Moran (pseudonym for Sid Harkreader and Grady Moore)	Harkins and Moran (pseudonym for Sid Harkreader and Grady Moore)
Broadway 8055-A	Broadway 8055-B
Matrix# 4591 (669), Take 2	Matrix# 4599 (673), Take 2
June 1927	June 1927
Chicago, Illinois	Chicago, Illinois

That Big Rock Candy Mountain	Blue Yodel No. 2
Frank Luther (and Carson Robison)	Louis Warfield (pseudonym for Frank Marvin)
Broadway 8121-A	Broadway 8121-B
Matrix# 8369 (1151), Take 3	Matrix# 8053 (1152), Take 6
November 28, 1928	July 5, 1928
New York, New York	New York, New York

Shall It Be You	Don't You Want To Go
Dixie Sacred Trio (John McGhee, Frank Welling and unknown man)	Dixie Sacred Trio (John McGhee, Frank Welling and unknown man)
Broadway 8260-A	Broadway 8260-B
Matrix# 1803 (Gennett) (2419A), Take 2	Matrix# 1804 (Gennett) (2420A), Take 2
ca. October 1929	ca. October 1929
New York, New York	New York, New York
Note: Worn.	Note: Worn.

Don't Marry A Man If He Drinks	Will They Deny Me When They're Men
Martin Brothers (pseudonym for John McGhee and Frank Welling)	Martin Brothers (pseudonym for John McGhee and Frank Welling)
Broadway 8265-A	Broadway 8265-B
Matrix# 1886 (Gennett) (2427A), Take 2	Matrix# 1887 (Gennett) (2428), Take 1
ca. October 1929	ca. October 1929
New York, New York	New York, New York
Note: Very worn.	Note: Very worn.

The Orphan Girl	Cowboy's Meditation
David Gauthier	David Gauthier
Broadway 8325-A	Broadway 8325-B
Matrix# L1210^1	Matrix# L1208^1
ca. October 1931	ca. October 1931
Grafton, Wisconsin	Grafton, Wisconsin
Note: 60 Hz electrical hum left in lest too much bass is removed.

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