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Gennett was an American record label, founded in Richmond, Indiana, USA by the Starr Piano Company Friar's Society Orchestra).

Sessions by a few vaudeville blues singers were organized, but extensive recording of race material did not begin until 1923, when [Invalid Label] and [Invalid Label] both recorded for the label. These tracks formed the beginning of a series of recordings now held to be classics. Gennett never had a designated race series: instead, from 1924, it printed the relevant labels with the legend "race record," and was the only company to adopt this policy. The discs were generally issued in batches as part of the general sequence, especially after December 1926, when the catalogue reached 6000; at this point the company started to produce electrically made recordings, the Electrobeams.

Gennett is best ed for the early jazz talent it recordedl, including sessions by Morton, Gene Autry.

The Gennett Company was hit severely by the Great Depression in 1930, and massively cut back on recording and production until it was halted all together in 1934. In 1935 the Starr Piano Company sold some Gennett masters, and the Gennett trademark to Decca Records.