{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music --> | name = Herwin Records | image = <!-- logo, such as "LABEL-LOGO.jpg" --> | image_size = <!-- size --> | image_alt = <!-- WP:ALT text describing the image --> | caption = <!-- a caption for the image --> | parent = <!-- parent company, such as "Warner Music Group" --> | founded = {{start date|1924}} | founder = Herbert Schiele<br />Edwin Schiele | defunct = {{end date|1930}} | status = Inactive | distributor = <!-- distributors, separate with commas or <br /> --> | genre = Jazz, blues, old-time | country = U.S. | location = St. Louis, Missouri | url = <!-- such as "{{URL|www.atlanticrecords.com}}" --> }} '''Herwin Records''' was a mail-order record label founded in 1925 by two brothers, Herbert and Edwin Schiele in St. Louis, Missouri. The name of the label comes from their first names (HERbert and EdWIN).<ref name="Kennedy">{{cite book|last1=Kennedy|first1=Rick|title=Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Records and the rise of America's musical grassroots|date=2013|publisher=Indiana University Press|location=Bloomington, Ind.|isbn=978-0-253-00747-6|page=170|edition=Rev. & expanded}}</ref><ref name="New Grove">{{cite book|last1=Rye|first1=Howard|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=231|volume=2|edition=2nd}}</ref>
Herwin sold budget jazz, blues, and old-time music discs that were pressed by Gennett and Paramount.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lFozfD24tAQC&q=Herwin&pg=PA287 Oliver, Paul (2001) ''Yonder Come the Blues: The Evolution of a Genre'', p. 287. Cambridge University Press] At Google Books. Retrieved 13 July 2013.</ref> The records were advertised in farming magazines and sold through the mail.<ref name="New Grove" /> The catalogue included Charley Patton, Chubby Parker, and Ernest Stoneman.<ref name="Kennedy" />
Herwin closed in 1930 when it was bought by the Wisconsin Chair Company, the owner of Paramount. A second '''Herwin Records''' was started in 1971 by Bernard Klatzko, a collector who reissued rare, early-jazz discs.<ref name="New Grove" />
==See also== *List of record labels
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==External links== * [http://www.wirz.de/music/herwin.htm Illustrated Herwin Records discography] ("Postwar" Klatzko releases)
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Category:Record labels established in 1924 Category:Record labels disestablished in 1930 Category:Re-established companies Category:Blues record labels Category:American jazz record labels