Oxford Records
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Oxford Records was a record label
active in the United States of America
and the United Kingdom
from roughly 1900
through the early 1920s.
Oxford produced records in both the phonograph cylinder
and disc record
format and were sold through the Sears
catalog in the United States of America
. The master recordings for Oxford records came from the obsoleted catalog of other labels, including Zon-O-Phone, Columbia
, and Leeds & Catlin
.
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
active in the United States of America
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
from roughly 1900
1900 in music
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through the early 1920s.
Oxford produced records in both the phonograph cylinder
Phonograph cylinder
Phonograph cylinders were the earliest commercial medium for recording and reproducing sound. Commonly known simply as "records" in their era of greatest popularity , these cylinder shaped objects had an audio recording engraved on the outside surface which could be reproduced when the cylinder was...
and disc record
Gramophone record
A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...
format and were sold through the Sears
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Sears, officially named Sears, Roebuck and Co., is an American chain of department stores which was founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in the late 19th century...
catalog in the United States of America
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. The master recordings for Oxford records came from the obsoleted catalog of other labels, including Zon-O-Phone, Columbia
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
, and Leeds & Catlin
Leeds Talk-O-Phone
Leeds Talk-O-Phone was a record label, producing cylinders from 1894 to 1903 and single-sided lateral-cut disc gramophone records in the United States of America from about 1902 to 1909....
.