{{Short description|American record label}} {{More citations needed|date=July 2016}} {{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music --> | name = Diva Records | image = DivaRecordLabel.jpg | image_size = <!-- size --> | image_alt = <!-- WP:ALT text describing the image --> | caption = Diva Record from 1928 | parent = <!-- parent company, such as "Warner Music Group" --> | founded = 1925 | founder = <!-- name of founders, separated by using commas, {{Flatlist}} or {{Hlist}} --> | defunct = <!-- year the label dissolved, such as {{end date|1990}} --> | status = <!-- leave blank unless "Inactive" --> | distributor = <!-- distributors, separated by using commas, {{Flatlist}} or {{Hlist}} --> | genre = <!-- such as "World" or "Various", separated by using commas, {{Flatlist}} or {{Hlist}} --> | country = United States | location = <!-- headquarters city and state --> | website = <!-- such as "{{URL|www.atlanticrecords.com}}" --> }} '''Diva Records''' was an American record label from 1925 to 1932 that sold records through W. T. Grant retail stores. It was a division of Columbia Records.<ref name="New Grove">{{cite book|editor1-last=Kernfeld|editor1-first=Barry|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz|date=2002|publisher=Grove's Dictionaries Inc.|location=New York|isbn=1-56159-284-6|page=620 |volume=1 |edition=2nd}}</ref>
Artists on the label included Irving Kaufman, Annette Hanshaw, The Golden Gate Orchestra, Sammy Fain, "Hobo" Jack Turner, Walter Cummins, The Broadway Bellhops, Tom Clines, Ed Blossom, The Harmonians, The Royal Troubadours, The Bar Harbor Society Orchestra, Gay Ellis, Tommy Weir, Buck Wilson, Jack Albin and His Hotel Pennsylvania Music, and Vernon Dalhart.
Diva Records were acoustic through early 1929. The audio fidelity of the post-acoustic records, as well as the pressing quality is above average for the era.
==See also== * List of record labels
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==Further reading== * Sutton, Allan. ''Directory of American Disc Record Brands and Manufacturers, 1891-1943'' (Westport & London, 1994)
==External links== *[https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?and%5B%5D=publisher:diva Diva Records] on the Internet Archive's [http://great78.archive.org/ Great 78 Project]
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Category:Record labels established in 1925 Category:Record labels disestablished in 1932 Category:American jazz record labels
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