World Broadcasting System
World Broadcasting System, Inc., was a recording service for radio founded in 1929 by Percy L. Deutsch (1885–1968).[1] The company recorded and, through its subsidiary, World Transcriptions, distributed discs to radio stations for broadcast. Before being sold to George H. Buck in 1971 — a jazz enthusiast who, since 1949, has run Jazzology Records — World Broadcasting Systems had changed owners several times. It was owned by Decca Records in the 1940s, then sold the Ziv Television Programs, and later to a Philadelphia firm, which in turn sold it to Commercial Recording Corporation, a Dallas-based corporation founded by Tom Merriman in 1955. CRC sold World Broadcasting Systems to George H. Buck in 1971.[2]
Historic recording artists
The collection includes recordings of Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Harry James, Xavier Cugat, The Dorsey Brothers, Casa Loma Orchestra, Lawrence Welk, Lionel Hampton, Peggy Lee, Mildred Bailey, Ernest Tubb, Red Foley, and Mel Torme.[2]
Other transcription services
References
- ^ American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years; Vol. III, From 1900 to 1984, Russell Sanjek (1916–1986), Oxford University Press (1988) OCLC 300414899
- ^ a b World B'Cast Recordings Sold, by Ian Dove, Billboard, September 11, 1971, pps. 1 & 66