Columbia Graphophone Company

US Columbia company. For the UK company (1917-1965) please go to Columbia Graphophone Company Ltd.

The manufacturing and marketing/sales companies responsible for records bearing the Columbia label (and various d and client labels) is complex.

Although their names were almost identical, the "Columbia Graphophone Company Ltd. was a British of the Columbia Graphophone/Phonograph Company, and is not the correct record company responsible for manufacturing Columbia products in the U.S. during the early 20th century.

All Columbia discs produced between 1902-1916 were manufactured by the Columbia Phonograph Company Gen'l.

The record company known as "Columbia Phonograph Company, Gen'l" was renamed the "Columbia Graphophone Company" at the end of January, 1913, and this name appears on discs produced in the U.S. between 1913-1923.

The manufacturing arm of this company, the "Columbia Phonograph Company, Inc."

In March 1925, the British took control of U.S. Columbia. Discs produced between 1924-1932 credit the "Columbia Graphophone Company Ltd." was the parent company during much of the time between 1925 and 1931.

In 1931 the U.S. company was separated again from the British one (which formed part of EMI). American Columbia ownership ed to the Grigsby-Grunow Company in late 1931, and to the Columbia Broadcasting System in 1938.