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[[Image:BekaRecord.jpg|rightthumb|Label of a Beka Record]]
'''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.
{{Infobox company
|name = Beka Records
|type = [[Privately held company|Incentive]]
|industry = [[record label]]
|foundation = 1903<br>[[Germany]]
|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 [[His Master's Voice]]
|parent = [[Carl Lindström Company]]
}}
'''Beka Records''' was a [[record label]] based in [[Germany]], active from about [[1903 in music|1903]] to [[1925 in music|1925]]. Before [[World War I]], Beka also made [[gramophone recordsrecord]]s 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 in music|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, [[Philip Ritte|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==
[[Category:Defunct record labels]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061021011342/http://www.mgthomas.co.uk/dancebands/Labels/LabelPhotos/Beka.jpg Photo of the Beka label]
 
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