Melotone

Melotone Records was a United States based shellac record label. In late 1930, Brunswick Records introduced the Melotone label in the U.S. and Canada as a budget subsidiary issuing 78 rpm disc records. It then became part of the American Record Corporation collection of labels in 1932. The label was discontinued in 1938. In 2010, Melotone Records was refounded as a division of Melotone Music LLC.

During the Depression, Melotone Records was a common cheap priced label. Melotone issued popular dance tunes of the era (usually a group of studio musicians issued under a variety of pseudonyms, including Blind Boy Fuller. Audio fidelity was average for the era even though the shellac material was not quite as high quality as the more expensive labels (although a mint copy played with a good diamond stylus produces good-for-the-era sound).