Challenge Records was founded in Los Angeles in 1957 by cowboy singer Gene Autry and former Columbia Records A&R representative Joe Johnson. Autry's involvement...
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Challenge Records may refer to: Challenge Records (1920s), a United States-based company Challenge Records (1950s-60s label), a United States-based company...
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Century Records Chainsaw Records Chalfont Records Chalice Challenge Records (1920s) Challenge Records (1950s-60s label) Challenge Records (1994) Chameleon Chamillitary...
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companies that produce and distribute records. They are not affiliated with or funded by the three major records labels. According to SoundScan and the Recording...
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Starday Records was an American record label producing traditional country music during the 1950s and 1960s. The label began in 1952 in Beaumont, Texas...
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Vee-Jay Records is an American record label founded in the 1950s, located in Chicago and specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll...
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London Recordings (redirect from Forbidden Fruit (label))
London Records and London Music Stream) is a British record label that marketed records in the United States, Canada, and Latin America for Decca Records from...
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The Highwaymen (country supergroup) (category Columbia Records artists)
1985 and 1995, the group recorded three major label albums as The Highwaymen: two on Columbia Records and one for Liberty Records. Their Columbia works produced...
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Philips Records is a record label founded by the Dutch electronics company Philips and the Dutch-American largest record label company Universal Music...
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Ember Records was a British independent record label established by Jeffrey Kruger. Ember Records was founded in the late 1950s, by avid jazz fan Jeffrey...
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Warner Records Inc. (formerly Warner Bros. Records Inc. until 2019) is an American record label. A subsidiary of the Warner Music Group, it is headquartered...
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Peacock revolution (category 1950s fashion)
with label that dressed Mick Jagger and David Bowie". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 November 2023. Fury, Alexander (29 February 2016). "The Peculiar '60s Designer...
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influential New York City rock and roll impresario and disc jockey of the 1950s, '60s and '70s. During the early days of Beatlemania, he frequently referred...
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Garage rock (redirect from 60s punk)
Garage rock (sometimes called garage punk or '60s punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in...
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leased these recordings to other labels. In the late 1950s, he set up his own label, Rich Records, which released R&B records and the occasional gospel single...
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Leonard Chess (section Chess Records)
the 1950s, Chess Records' commercial success grew with artists such as Little Walter, The Moonglows, The Flamingos, and Chuck Berry, and in the '60s with...
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The Fourmost (category Atco Records artists)
of 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s hit songs. Charley Records later issued a 20-track compilation album also titled First and Fourmost, while EMI Records later...
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Rock music (redirect from 1950s rock and roll)
rebellion of rock music was a male rebellion; the women – often, in the 1950s and '60s, girls in their teens – in rock sang songs as personæ dependent on their...
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History of sound recording (redirect from History of recorded sound)
special-purpose records since the early 1930s and some 78 rpm shellac records were still being made in the late 1950s. Until the mid-1920s records were played...
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Soul music (section Stax Records and Atlantic Records)
[page needed] Stax Records, founded by siblings Estelle and James Stewart, was the second most successful record label behind Motown Records. They were responsible...
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Doo-wop (category 1950s in music)
series of record labels which released many hits in the US. Robinson founded or co-founded Red Robin Records, Whirlin' Disc Records, Fury Records, Everlast...
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Pebbles, Volume 1 (redirect from Mastercharge Records)
Garage Rock From the 1950s to the Present. Reaktion Books. p. 142. "PEBBLES - Vol 01 (RARE 60s GARAGE PSYCH!) Comp LP". Bomp Records. Bovey, Seth (Oct 2006)...
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Sixties Scoop (redirect from 60s Scoop)
name referencing the 1960s, the Sixties Scoop began in the mid-to-late 1950s and persisted into the 1980s. It is estimated that a total of 20,000 Indigenous...
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Book of Records. Company founder Ron Tudor began his career in the music industry in the mid-1950s when he joined Melbourne label W&G Records as a sales...
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Bacchus Archives (category Record labels based in California)
issued / reissued covering the period from the 1950s through to the 1980s and beyond, includes Rockabilly, 60s Garage and Arizona Garage, Psych and Freakbeat...
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record's labels as "Elvis' Gold Records, Vol. 2," with a comma and an abbreviation of "Volume", but on the jacket, it appears as "Elvis' Gold Records...
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Radiohead (redirect from Ticker Tape (record label))
our failing!" He likened their jazz influence to 1950s English bands imitating American blues records. "Pyramid Song" "Pyramid Song" was influenced by...
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released two singles for the International Artists (IA) record label. He moved to Liberty Records label and released seven singles on it, including Earl Thomas...
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Jayne Mansfield (category 1950s Playboy Playmates)
1967) was an American actress and Playboy Playmate. A sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s, Mansfield was known for her numerous publicity stunts and...
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