The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records Steven Womack Leslie Bethell

Leslie Bethell

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The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records Steven Womack Leslie BethellFounded in 1917, Paramount Records incongruously was one of several homegrown record labels of a Wisconsin chair making company. The company pinned no outsized hopes on Paramount. Its founders knew nothing of the music business, and they had arrived at the scheme of producing records only to drive sales of the expensive phonograph cabinets they had recently begun manufacturing. Lacking the resources and the interest to compete for top talent,