- Country
- United Kingdom
- Active
- from 1913 to 1916
- Comments
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1913, when Cinch Records were launched, was the start of a major cut-price war between the major record companies who were trying to regain the ground lost to recent, cheaper, newcomers into the disk record market. These newcomers were the Coliseum and Scala records introduced in 1912 by the Beka Co. of Germany, selling at 1/6 (7.5p). Cinch records were manufactured by The Gramophone Company, often using existing Zonophone matrices. They were sold at 1/1 (about 6p), undercutting the German records, and offered top artists, albeit under pseudonyms in many cases (with the usual exception of the ubiquitous Billy Williams!).
The advent of the first World War, which halted cheap German imports, removed the competition which had resulted in the creation of Cinch and other similar record labels, but it had become so popular that it wasn't until January 1916 when the last Cinch supplement was published. - Related labels
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His Master's Voice Parent label
Label
Releases
Single
Catalog nr. | EAN | Performer | Title | Date | Format |
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5029 | Mr. Randell Jackson with Orchestral Accompaniment | Glorious Devon | September 1913 | 78rpm | |
5032 | Miss Bessie Jones | Home, Sweet Home | September 1913 | 78rpm | |
5033 | Miss Bessie Jones | Violets | 1913 | 78rpm | |
5076 | Paul Wiggert - James Hawke | Good-bye - Concert Polka | September 1913 | 78rpm | |
5159 | Bob Canon (Will Terry) | Hold Your Hand out Naughty Boy | January 1914 | 78rpm | |
5220 | Fred Douglas | I Want You All the While | 1914 | 78rpm | |
5221 | Fred Douglas | He'd Have to Get Under, Get Out and Get Under | June 1914 | 78rpm | |
5453 | Ivor Lewis | When the Robins Nest Again | 1915 | 78rpm |