Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Odeon Records was a record label founded in 1903 by Max Strauss and Heinrich Zunz of the International Talking Machine Company in Berlin, Germany. It was named after a famous theatre in Paris, whose classical dome appears on the Odeon record label. In 1904 Odeon launched the first double-sided gramophone records. The American Record Company began doing pressings of 10 -inch blue-shellac discs for Odeon to export to Europe in 1905 or 1906, all double-sided. In 1909 it created the first recording of a large orchestral work and what may have been the first record album when it released a 4-disk set of Tchaikovsky''s Nutcracker Suite with Hermann Finck conducting the London Palace Orchestra.