ABSTRACT
Moe needed to start over after all of the difficulties with Asch Records and DISC Records. Unfortunately, one of the conditions of the bankruptcy agreement with DISC was that he was forbidden to be an officer of a record company for a considerable period of time. The creation-story of Folkways Records begins at this point. Although there are a several variants to the tale that Marian Distler purchased the assets of DISC Records and started Folkways, perhaps the only “official” story can be found in an undated affidavit signed by Marian Distler.1 From this source, the story goes:
When Mr. Erlinger took over the operations of Disc Company through Disc Distributing Corp. he needed my services to advise him about certain details with which I was familiar having been with the Disc Company since its inception.
