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Capitol Records was founded in the United States during the Second World War and rapidly became one of America’s major popular-music companies. Its 78s featured leading singers, jazz musicians and orchestras including Nat King Cole, Jo Stafford and Stan Kenton, and later Frank Sinatra, placing Capitol firmly at the centre of post-war American popular music.

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