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The Billy Murray Pages The
Annotated The Crown Record Company was founded in 1930 as a Plaza Music Company subidiary, after that company was left out of the merger that resulted in formation of the American Record Corporation. Several Plaza officials who had been involved in the production of the Regal–Banner group of labels headed the new Crown venture. The records initially were pressed by an independent plant, but pressing was soon contracted to the RCA plant in Camden, NJ. Victor, however, did not record any of Crown's masters, nor was there ever any trading of masters between these two unrelated companies. Many Crown matrices were also pressed under client labels, including Homestead and Gem, and were even reissued in the late 1930s on Montgomery Ward, Varsity, and other low-priced brands. Thus far, however, the only reliably reported client-label issue of a Murray Crown recording is Homestead 23075, inspected copies of which use an alternate take. Reports of foreign issues on the English Imperial label (the producers of which had a financial stake in the competing American Record Corporation) are anecdotal and thus will not be listed here until they can be confirmed by more reliable sources. The Crown Recordings Note:
Crown production files that survive at the Sony-BMG archive (New York)
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