Editing Banner Records (section)

==Label series==
Banner debuted with two concurrent label series in January 1922: a popular 1000 series side by side with a "Standard" 2000 series of semi-classical music, comedy, and some Jewish material.<ref name="discography1"/><ref name="discography2000"/> Reaching Banner 1999 in the main series in mid-1927, Banner skipped ahead to 6000 and terminated the Standard series at the end of the year at Banner 2183.<ref name="discography3">{{cite web|url=http://www.78discography.com/Ban6000.htm|title=BANNER (1920s) 78rpm numerical listing discography - 6000 series|website=78discography.com|accessdate=2 June 2018}}</ref> At this point, Banner also stopped the 6000 series at Banner 6167 and moved again to a 7000 series starting at Banner 7001.<ref name="auto2">{{cite web|url=http://www.78discography.com/Ban7000.htm|title=BANNER 78rpm numerical listing discography: 7000 series|website=78discography.com|accessdate=2 June 2018}}</ref> This ended in early 1929 at Banner 7265 and then reverted to the old series, starting at Banner 6200.<ref name="discography3"/> The series survived the merger into ARC, but was ended at the start of 1930 at Banner 6566 and restarted at 0500 until it reached 0872 later in the year.<ref name="auto3">{{cite web|url=http://www.78discography.com/Ban500.htm|title=BANNER 78rpm numerical listing discography: 500 - 1000|website=78discography.com|accessdate=2 June 2018}}</ref> The number series was then started again at 32001<ref name="auto1"/> and the price changed from 25 cents to 35 cents in order to bring Banner in line with other dime-store labels being sold 3 for a dollar. This lasted until 1935, when the dime-store labels were all married to a central numbering system. But releases were not necessarily unified; for example, [[Robert Johnson]], who did have some releases on Melotone, did not appear on Banner.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vjm.biz/Robert%20Johnson.pdf |title=Melotone Mythology: Robert Johnson's Dime Store Issues |author=Roger Misiewicz |author2=Helge Thygesen  |publisher=Vjm.biz |accessdate=2014-05-29}}</ref>