BILLY MURRAY 1905 VIM RECORD 2050 GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY International Comp

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A series of great early Opera performances: From 1902 G&Ts to 40s wartime German records:

Extremely rare early recording by BILLY MURRAY on 1905 VIM RECORD No 2050

GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY

pressed from a master of the International Record Company

2050 Billy Murray, tenor solo w. orchestra acc. Give My Regards to Broadway  - - - - George M. Cohan

Vim Records was a short-lived American record label that was active during the early 1900s. Vim discs include issues of ragtime banjo music recorded by Vess L. Ossman

10" 78 rpm record

Condition:

GOOD rubbed and fine scratches, label rubbed, plays VG quiet swish before music

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The Vim Company was founded in 1896 in Chicago, Illinois, and it was active in labeling records in the first decade of the 20th century.[1] Vim was primarily a sporting goods store but also sold bicycles and electrical goods. Record Research newsletter categorizes the firm as a "Department Store Label", meaning the owners entered an agreement with an already established record company, and "... they proceeded to have their own records pressed with the name of the department store prominently printed on the label."[2]

Vim Records were single-sided lateral cut disc records. Vim was recorded and manufactured by the International Talking Machine Company and Leeds & Catlin.

The company offices were moved between 1901 and 1903. Known address are:[3]

56-60 Fifth Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
68 E. Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois (1903); after street renumbering this was 10 Lake Street
39 S. Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois; Company Headquarters
A branch office was opened in late 1903 at 704 West Walnut Street, Des Moines, Iowa.[4] In 1906 the branch was moved to 808 West Walnut Street,[5] and in 1907 it was moved to 204 7th Street.[6] This location remained open until late 1908 when the firm of Harger & Blish, an established firm from Dubuque, Iowa, were appointed the jobbers in Des Moines.[7]

The last listing for the firm producing records in Chicago was in the Edison Phonograph Monthly January 1910 issue.[8]

The owner and president of the company was Leon Atwell Olmsted, a native of New York who moved to Chicago in the 1890s. After opening his first store in 1896, he eventually expanded to seven stores in Chicago and another seventeen throughout the nation.[9] It was reported that he died in a fire at his home in Minocqua, Wisconsin, at the age of 63, but it was soon learned that he died of exhaustion after fighting the blaze.[10][11] At the time of his death in 1936 the stores were being managed by his son Leslie B. Olmsted.

International Record Company 10-inch series were issued with identical catalogue numbers (C. #) and duplicated material on these record labels:
Apollo Record; The Boston Symphony Record; The Buckeye; Central Records; The Champion Record; Clear Tone Record; Clico Disc Record; Eagle Records; Excelsior Record; Faultless Concert Record; Generic or unbranded label; International Record; Jackson's Challenge Record; Kalamazoo Record; Lyric Record; Mozart Record; New York Grand Opera Record; The Ormsby Disc; Philharmonic Record; Siegel Cooper Special 10-inch Record; Republic Disc Record; Generic Special 10-inch Record; Square Deal Disc; The Star Record; Symphony Record; Vim Record and possibly other labels.

These records were made available with and without the letter 'X' in front of the catalogue number on the first 10-inch series only.

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