ABSTRACT
An American record issued by Pathé (but shown as coming from the Perfect Record Co., Brooklyn) from sometime between July and September 1922; the final releases were in April 1938, when the label belonged to the American Record Corp., which had taken over Pathé Frères Phonograph Co, Inc. in 1929. Much of the early output (until 1929) corresponded to the material on Pathé’s Actuelle label. Perfect was a low-price record, selling for $0.50 at first, then dropping as low as $0.25; the regular price of standard labels in the 1920s was $0.75. Like other cut-rate labels from major companies, Perfect kept its artist names secret, using pseudonyms. Thus the California Ramblers appeared as the Golden Gate Orchestra, Fletcher Henderson as the Lenox Dance Orchestra or the Southampton Society Orchestra, etc. Some real names were given in the later years of the label.
