Black Swan Records

Black Swan Records was a United States record label in the 1920s; it was the first to be owned and operated by, and marketed to, African Americans.

Artists recorded

• C. Carroll Clark, baritone, made the label's first record.
• Four Harmony Kings, vocal quartet
• Henry Creamer and J. Turner Layton, vaudeville duo
• Katie Crippen, vaudeville singer
• Kemper Harreld, violinist
• Revella Hughes, soprano
• Alberta Hunter, blues singer
• "Mamie Jones" was actually a pseudonym on Black Swan for singer Aileen Stanley, perhaps the only Caucasian artist to record for the label (she was "passing for colored" on these records).
• Trixie Smith, blues singer, was second only to Ethel Waters in Black Swan sales.
• Florence Cole Talbert soprano
• Ethel Waters, blues and pop song singer. She had the label's first commercially successful records, and remained their best seller.
• Essie Whitman, vaudeville singer