Odeon background

In ancient Greece Odeon was a mostly round theatre for song and music performances. In 1903 the International Talking Machine Company was founded by two Germans to produce records with the Odeon building as a symbol. The Swede Carl Lindström in 1896 started a factory in Berlin and was very successful in selling simple low cost phonographs. In the beginning of the 1900s he produced gramophones and records named Parlophon. In 1911 he bought some minor German factories, for example Beka and Odeon.  In 1931 Odeon became a part of the Electric and Musical Industries Ltd EMI which was formed by Columbia and HMV. Odeon was a wellknown brand in Sweden with many popular artists like Ernst Rolf, Zarah Leander and Sven-Olov Sandberg.

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