Classical Vinyl - Telefunken label - can anyone educate me here?

I just typed in 'Telefunken record label' and 5 seconds later learned all about it.

yeah - did some more homework this morning. Discogs actually has a ton of info and it answered all my questions. Thanks.

Anytime  is a good time for some  accordian  polka!

https://images.app.goo.gl/dgoY5SyuB3SPHWep8

My neighborhood record monger knows I'm a cyclist, so he saved this Telefunken for me. Makes for  a quirky framed piece in the bathroom. 

French polkas??

Blasphemy!!

Telefunken was one of those exotic sounding (to my ears) labels when I started buying records in the mid seventies.  German only notes, artists that were generally unknown in the states, high import prices.  Later I learned that their history stretched back into the 1930s and possibly earlier, and that they were responsible for many famous records made in Germany before and during WWII.

  They renamed themselves as Teldec in the eighties and then folded some time after that.  I never knew that they were part of the Decca stable but given the label consolidation in the Classical industry it doesn’t surprise me.

  They had a spin off label dedicated to Early Music named Das Alte Works that was very important in launching the Historically Informed Performance Practice (HIPP) movement 

@mahler123 Thanks! Discogs has a lot of interesting info on Teldec, Telefunken vinyl and the Decca relationship. Strange bedfellows as they say, esp after WW2.

I’ve got some good CDs that were issued by Teldec but they just weren’t as much fun as buying the LPs with the German notes, etc