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Karvelis - Chicago

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Imprint used for records released by Jonas Karvelis' trading house. Karvelis was a businessman in pre-WWII Lithuania already, selling books, also records, electric, radio gear, musical instruments, with publishing as side business. In 1944, Karvelis escaped from coming Red Army to Austria as DP, and from there in 1950 emigrated to USA, where he re-established his trading house in Chicago soon afterwards and resumed same activity as in pre-war years, in addition he began releasing LPs by exile artists as well as reissuing popular titles from pre-war shellac records.