ABSTRACT
A firm of piano makers, publishers, and concert agents, established in 1810, in London. It had strong connections to the recording industry in the U.K. An association with Cliftophone was followed by one with U.S. Brunswick in 1923. The masters from America were pressed under the Brunswick Cliftophone label. In 1926 Chappell marketed discs made under Brunswick’s “light-ray method,” and in the same year British manufacture of Brunswicks began with the creation of British Brunswick, Ltd. Chappell’s name was no longer included in the advertising after August 1927. But when the new Warner Brunswick, Ltd. appeared Chappell was again involved, as sole vendor of the records. The company has made many of the recordings used as background music for television programs and motion pictures. Today the firm is a subsidiary of Philips. It ceased manufacture of pianos ca. 1965. [Andrews 1981/1.]
In March 1922 the Black husband-wife vaudeville team of Thomas Chappelle and Juanita Stinnette produced their own records, making just nine blues
discs. The C&S Phonograph Record Co. was cited on the discs as the manufacturer. Clarence Williams “Decatur Street Blues” (#5005) is one of the numbers, and the other eight are by the two producers. All the records are rare today. [Rust 1978.]
British rock label active in the 1970s and 1980s, founded by ex-pop music manager Tony Stratton-Smith in 1969. Initially, the label was distributed by the small B&C label, but soon was picked up by Island Records. It scored major hits with the prog-rock bands Emerson, Lake, and Palmer and Genesis and the folk-rock group Lindisfarne through the 1970s. The label also recorded comedy albums by the popular Monty Python troupe. The label also formed a publishing division to publish books and the rock magazine, Zigzag. After Stratton-Smith died in 1984, the label was sold to Virgin, which has revived the name from time to time.
