Herwin Records was a mail-order record label founded in 1925 by two brothers, Herbert and Edwin Schiele in St. Louis, Missouri. The name of the label comes from their first names (HERbert and EdWIN).[1][2]
Herwin sold budget jazz, blues, and old-time music discs that were pressed by Gennett and Paramount.[3] The records were advertised in farming magazines and sold through the mail.[2] The catalogue included Charley Patton, Chubby Parker, and Ernest Stoneman.[1]
Herwin closed in 1930 when it was bought by the Wisconsin Chair Company, the owner of Paramount. A second Herwin Records was started in 1971 by Bernard Klatzko, a collector who reissued rare, early-jazz discs.[2]
See also
- List of record labels
External links
- Illustrated Herwin Records discography ("Postwar" Klatzko releases)
References
- Rick Kennedy. Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Records and the rise of America's musical grassroots Indiana University Press, 2013^
- Howard Rye. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz Grove's Dictionaries Inc., 2002^
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=lFozfD24tAQC&q=Herwin&pg=PA287 Oliver, Paul (2001) Yonder Come the Blues: The Evolution of a Genre, p. 287. Cambridge University Press] At Google Books. Retrieved 13 July 2013.^