Herwin Records
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| name = Herwin Records
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| founded = {{start date|1924}}
| founder = Herbert Schiele
Edwin Schiele
| defunct = {{end date|1930}}
| status = Inactive
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| genre = Jazz, blues, old-time
| country = U.S.
| location = St. Louis, Missouri
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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).{{cite book|last1=Kennedy|first1=Rick|title=Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Records and the rise of America's musical grassroots|date=2013|publisher=Indiana University Press|location=Bloomington, Ind.|isbn=978-0-253-00747-6|page=170|edition=Rev. & expanded}}{{cite book|last1=Rye|first1=Howard|editor1-last=Kernfeld|editor1-first=Barry|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz|date=2002|publisher=Grove's Dictionaries Inc.|location=New York|isbn=1-56159-284-6|page=231|volume=2|edition=2nd}}
Herwin sold budget jazz, blues, and old-time music discs that were pressed by Gennett and Paramount.[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. The records were advertised in farming magazines and sold through the mail. The catalogue included Charley Patton, Chubby Parker, and Ernest Stoneman.
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.
See also
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External links
- [http://www.wirz.de/music/herwin.htm Illustrated Herwin Records discography] ("Postwar" Klatzko releases)
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Category:Record labels established in 1924
Category:Record labels disestablished in 1930