Editing Conqueror Records

{{Short description|American record label}}
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{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name        = Conqueror Records
| image       = ConquerorRecordsTrumpetSleeve.jpg
| image_size  = 180px
| image_alt   = Conqueror Record in original paper sleeve
| caption     = Conqueror Record in original paper sleeve
| parent      =
| founded     = {{start date and age|1928}}
| founder     = <!-- name of founders, separate with commas or <br /> -->
| fate        = <!-- explain the reason of the closing-->
| defunct     = {{end date and age|1942}}
| status      = Inactive
| distributor = [[Sears, Roebuck and Company]]
| genre       = Various
| country     = United States
| location    = <!-- headquarters city and state -->
| url         = <!-- such as "{{URL|www.atlanticrecords.com}}" -->
}}

'''Conqueror Records''' was a [[United States]]–based [[record label]], active from 1928 through 1942. The label was sold exclusively through [[Sears, Roebuck and Company]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Allan Sutton |author-link= |title=The Sears, Roebuck & Company Record Labels (1905-1950) |date=2007 |publisher=Mainspring Press|quote= |url=http://www.mainspringpress.com/sears-labels.html}}</ref>

==History==
[[Image:ConquerorLabel.jpg|thumb|260px|right|Label of Conqueror Record]]
Conqueror was originally owned by the Plaza Music Company, then became part of the [[American Record Corporation]] family of labels. Most of the issues are of standard dance tunes and popular songs of the era, although there are [[jazz]] recordings by [[Louis Armstrong]] and [[Glenn Miller]].

The audio fidelity of Conquerors is average for the era, pressed into somewhat below average [[shellac]]. The record sleeves state that the proper playing speed for Conqueror Records is 80 [[Revolutions per minute|rpm]].

==Selected artists==
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* [[Dick Messner]]
* [[Harry James]]
* [[Bing Crosby]]
* [[Fletcher Henderson]]
* [[Jack Pettis]] [[:de:Jack Pettis|(de)]]
* [[Lizzie Miles]]
* [[Sam Lanin]]
* Devine's Wisconsin Roof Orchestra
* [[Fred Hall (musician)|Fred Hall]]
* Ernie Golden
* Ted Wallace and his Orchestra
* Horsey's Hot Five
* [[Irving Mills]]
* [[Hal Kemp]]
* [[Fred Rich]]
* [[Duke Ellington]]
* Adrian Schubert
* [[Chick Bullock]]
* [[Ben Pollack]]
* [[Jack Teagarden]]
* Varsity Eight
* [[Cab Calloway]]
* [[Red Nichols]]
* [[The Carter Family]] 
* Beale Street Washboard Band (see [[Herb Morand]])
* ARC Studio Bands<ref name="Dupuis 1993" />
* [[Gene Kardos]]
* [[Joe Haymes]]
* [[Dick Robertson (songwriter)|Dick Robertson]]
* The Radio Imps
* Murray and Scanlan
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==See also==
* [[Embassy Records]]: Woolworth's store brand record label
* [[Oriole Records (U.S.)]]: McCrory's store brand record label
* [[List of record labels]]
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==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="Dupuis 1993">[https://books.google.com/books?id=wnY1Y1bMlEMC&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=%22ARC+Studio%22 Bunny Berigan: Elusive Legend of Jazz], by Robert Dupuis (born 1926), [[Louisiana State University Press]] (1993), p. 22 {{OCLC|475285612}}</ref>
}}
* Source for Selected Artists: Tom Lord (ed.), ''[[The Jazz Discography]] Online'', Lord Music, (retrieved May 10, 2018; subscription required; accessible at many libraries); {{OCLC|690104143}}

==External links==
* [https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?and%5B%5D=publisher:conqueror Conqueror Records] on the Internet Archive's [http://great78.archive.org/ Great 78 Project]

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[[Category:Record labels owned by Sears, Roebuck and Company]]
[[Category:American jazz record labels]]
[[Category:Record labels established in 1928]]
[[Category:American companies established in 1928]]
[[Category:Record labels disestablished in 1942]]
[[Category:American companies disestablished in 1942]]
[[Category:Louis Armstrong]]
[[Category:Glenn Miller]]