The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records
Blackwood, Scott![The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/428/42894227/CHSBZCOP0342894227.jpg)
Founded in 1917, Paramount Records was but one of the home-grown record labels of the New York Recording Laboratories (NYRL), a subsidiary of a chair company in Wisconsin with operations near Lake Michigan. No outsized hopes were pinned to Paramount or its sister companies, its founders knew nothing of the music business, the records themselves were only to drive sales of expensive phonograph cabinets they had recently begun manufacturing. Lac...