The Label
Subtitle: The Story of Columbia Records
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Published: February 6, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9781560257073
Subjects: Economics; Music; Music industry; Western music: periods & styles; Economic Aspects Of Music; Music History And Criticism +; Music/Songbooks; Business Aspects; History & Criticism - General; Music / History & Criticism; Columbia Records, Inc; History; Sound recording industry
First sentence: On the morning of January 23, 1908, a day before a blizzard crippled the New York metropolitan area with ten and a quarter inches of snow, Edward D. Easton, the longtime president of the Columbia Phonograph Company, began his weekday commute to the city a