Perfect Records was a United States

United States

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 based record label

Record label

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 of the 1920s and 1930s. It was a subsidiary of Pathé Records

Pathé Records

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, producing standard lateral cut 78 rpm disc records

Gramophone record

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 for the US market.

Many issues of Perfect records were pressed in red-brown shellac

Shellac

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 as opposed to the more common black shellac of the era. Audio fidelity was about average for the era, but being a cheap label, the records tend to wear easily.

Artists who recorded on Perfect included Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards

Cliff Edwards

Cliff Edwards , also known as "Ukelele Ike", was an American singer and voice actor who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes. He had a number-one hit with "Singin' in the Rain" in 1929...

, Annette Hanshaw

Annette Hanshaw

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, The Ponce Sisters

The Ponce Sisters

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, Willard Robison

Willard Robison

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, Cab Calloway

Cab Calloway

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, Gene Autry

Gene Autry

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, Vernon Dalhart

Vernon Dalhart

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, Lee Morse

Lee Morse

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, Boyd Senter, Al Bernard

Al Bernard

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, Tito Schipa

Tito Schipa

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, and Morton Downey

Morton Downey

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Perfect Records was part of the merger that created American Record Corporation

American Record Corporation

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 (ARC Records ) in July 1929.

The Perfect Records label was revived in 1993 by Dean Blackwood and issued recordings pressed on 78 r.p.m. vinyl by Sun City Girls

Sun City Girls

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, Charlie Feathers

Charlie Feathers

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, Junior Kimbrough

Junior Kimbrough

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, the Balfa Brothers, and John Fahey

John Fahey (musician)

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