Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company produced 78 RPM records beginning in 1916.   Audio fidelity of the acoustically recorded Brunswicks was far above average for the era.   They recorded famous names such as Al Jolson, Duke Ellington and Bing Crosby

      In 1930 Brunswick records was sold to Warner Brothers.   Due to the Great Depression--Warners leased the entire Brunswick record operation to the American Record Corporation (ARC) in December 1931.

      In 1939, the American Record Corp. was bought by the Columbia Broadcasting System for $750,000, which discontinued the label in 1940.

      In 1943, Decca revived the Brunswick label, mostly for reissues of recordings from earlier decades, particularly Bing Crosby's early hits of 1931 and jazz items from the 1920s.