Brunswick Records — Chicago R&B/soul operation

CTL-E-1195 · Institution · label · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Brunswick was founded in 1916 by piano makers Brunswick-Balke-Collender; acquired by Warner Bros. (1930), American Record Corporation (1931), CBS (1938), Decca (1942); Decca revived the imprint in 1943 for reissues; it became a Coral subsidiary in 1952 and resumed new releases.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BMI-002; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BMI-002:brunswick-records-chicago-r-b-soul-operation; source research type(s): label. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

• evidence: corporate lineage
• evidence: corporate history
• evidence: Chicago-era history
• evidence: hit records
• discogs.com (Brunswick label page)
• evidence: single encyclopedia entry
• evidence: documentary claim

Record CTL-E-1195 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 7 sources · CTL research: BMI-002.
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