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Miss Dutton’s, Drummoyne, a few kilometres to the north-west of central Sydney, sold tennis equipment as well as music.

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Jim Davidson and his New Palais Orchestra were one of the leading dance bands in Australia in the 1930s, recording for Regal Zonophone.

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In 1925 Wocord released the first disc recordings made in Australia.

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Square dancing was a popular social activity in Australia during the 1950s, and Eddie Carol one of the leading dance callers.

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Wocord didn’t last long, as their 'indestructible’ records were made with a cardboard base covered in a thin layer of flexible plastic which disintegrated when it got wet and the records would not

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During the 1920s and ’30s there was a shop selling records and/or record players on just about every block of George St in Sydney, NSW.

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The Pianola Company, 252 Collins St, in Melbourne also sold the Aeolian Vocalion range of record players and had 'Complete Stocks of the Worlds Best Artists in Vocal and Instrumental Music’.

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Home Recreations LD, 388 George St, sold the Australian designed and made Salonola, 'The Instrument with the Human Voice'.

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The Aeolian Coy in Sydney manufactured the Vocalion range of 'disc talking machines’, as well as selling records from the major labels of the time such as Vocalion, Columbia, HMV, Zonophone an

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This full colour Columbia sleeve is probably from the mid 1920s, when the Viva-tonal Recording Electric Process was introduced.