The Wikipedia article here: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Record_Corporation goes through 
the lineage--on to Sony. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Record_Corporation

On 5/30/2017 2:09 PM, Michael Shoshani wrote:
> I'm not sure about Vocalion being owned by Sony; Vocalion, like Brunswick,
> found itself with Decca by the 1950s, and according to a USPTO TESS search
> I did earlier, Decca's successor UMG holds a live trademark registration on
> the name "Vocalion".  (I can't link, because TESS uses session IDs that
> expire.)
>
> Michael Shoshani
>
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 16:06, Dennis Rooney <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> According to an internal memo from John Hammond to Clive Davis art CBS,
>> when Brunswick purchased Vocalian from the Aeolian Co. in 1927, they only
>> wanted the name, not the masters which were then scrapped. Aeolian went
>> bankrupt in the early thirties. The successor-in-interest was discovered to
>> be a manufacturer of power boats in upstate NY who claimed no interest in
>> the material. Brunswick was acquired by ARSC and Vocalian continued as an
>> ARC label and is owned by Sony. Aeolian-Vocalian recordings are truly
>> orphans.
>>
>> DDR
>>
>> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Terri Brinegar <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> I know that Vocalion archives are not in existence (or haven’t been
>>> located), but I would appreciate any information as to the last known
>>> whereabouts of their existence. I am researching a minister who recorded
>> on
>>> Vocalion from 1927-1931.
>>>
>>> What do you guys/gals know about Vocalion?
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Terri Brinegar
>>> PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology
>>> University of Florida
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>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>
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