{{Short description|German record label}} thumb|Label of a Beka Record {{Infobox company | name = Beka Records | type = Incentive | industry = record label | founded = 1903<br>Germany | hq_location = Germany | defunct = 1925 | fate = Tax Dormitory{{Citation needed|reason=Google shows no meaningful results for "tax dormitory". It may be a poor translation or neologism for "bankruptcy"|date=June 2020}} *Sold to Carl Lindström Company *Reincorporated under the Gramophone Company | parent = Carl Lindström Company }} '''Beka Records''' was a record label based in Germany, active from about 1903 to 1925. Before World War I, Beka also made gramophone records for the United Kingdom market under the '''Beka-Grand Records''' label. The company became a subsidiary of the Carl Lindström Company which was sold to the Columbia Graphophone Company in 1926. [[Image:BEKA B.5402-I Engelbert Zaschka.jpg|thumb|right|Slawoma - Der neueste Tanz (Slavoma) by Engelbert Zaschka. Saxophon-Orchester Dobbri of Berlin, 1925]] Artists on the label included Bert Alvey, Jessie Broughton, Albertina Cassani, Lucia Cavalli, Cook & Carpenter, Gerhard Ebeler, Kappelle Willy Krug, Kapelle Merton, Miss Riboet, Phillip Ritte, the Beka London Orchestra, the Dobbri Saxophone Orchestra, the Martina Salon Orchestra, the Meister Orchestra, and the Royal Cowes Minstrels.
A history of Beka Records, together with a listing of known records issued by the label, is published by the City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society (CLPGS) as part of their Reference Series of books.
== See also == * List of record labels
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20061021011342/http://www.mgthomas.co.uk/dancebands/Labels/LabelPhotos/Beka.jpg Photo of the Beka label] {{Authority control}} Category:German record labels Category:Defunct record labels of Germany Category:Record labels established in 1903 Category:Record labels disestablished in 1925 Category:Classical music record labels {{Germany-record-label-stub}} {{Germany-company-stub}}