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Liberty Music Shop Records

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Liberty Music Store Records or Liberty Music Shop Records produced records for jazz singer Lee Wiley. Liberty Music Shops was a New York business that specialized in sophisticated music for sophisticated customers. At one time in the late 1930's, they had three shops in New York City, In 1933, they started their own private recording label, using original masters recorded at Brunswick and later Decca Records studios. They specialized in specialized dance music (Enric Madriguera, Emile Petti and Ted Straeter), cabaret and Broadway personalizies (Lee Wiley, Beatrice Lillie, Ethel Merman, Ethel Waters), and speciality acts like Casper Reardon and his Harp, as well as slightly off color humorous artists like Bruz Fletcher. About 200 records were produced between 1933 and 1942. After the war, the issued a few more and in the early 1950's, they produced a number of LP reissues of past glories.

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