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ABC Records

Index ABC Records

ABC Records was an American record label founded in New York City in 1955. [1]

213 relations: Amazing Rhythm Aces, American Broadcasting Company, American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Anchor Records, Apt Records, Archie Shepp, Ariola Records, Art Blakey, Audition Records, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, B. J. Thomas, B.B. King, Back Beat Records, Barbara Mandrell, Barry Mann, Barry McGuire, Betty Carter, Beverly Sills, Big Joe Turner, Bigtop Records, Billy "Crash" Craddock, Billy Davis Jr., Blood, Sweat & Tears, Blue Network, Blue Thumb Records, BluesWay Records, Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods, Bob Thiele, Bobby Bland, Bobby Hammack, Bobby Scott (musician), Bobby Vinton, Brownie McGhee, Carl Carlton, Chancellor Records, Charles Brown (musician), Charles Mingus, Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers, Cliff Richard, Coleman Hawkins, Colonial Records, Colortone Records, Command Records, Compact disc, Competition law, Concord Records, Count Basie, Country music, Creed Taylor, Crosby & Nash, ..., Crowfoot (band), Danny & the Juniors, Disney Music Group, Don Robey, Dot Records, Duke Records, Dunhill Records, Dusty Springfield, Eddie Holman, Eddie Lund, Eddie Vinson, Edward John Noble, EMI, Emitt Rhodes, Enoch Light, Eydie Gormé, Famous Music, Fats Domino, Federal Communications Commission, Ferrante & Teicher, Festival Records, Florence Ballard, Four Tops, Frank Fontaine, Frankie Laine, Freddie Hubbard, Freddy Fender, Gayle McCormick, Genesis (band), George Hamilton IV, Gospel, Grand Award Records, GRT Records, GTO Records, Gulf and Western Industries, Guy Marks, Hello People, Hickory Records, Howard Roberts, Impulse! Records, Isaac Hayes, Jack Scott (singer), James Darren, James Gang, Jazz, Jerden Records, Jim Croce, Jimmy Buffett, Jimmy Reed, Jimmy Rushing, Jimmy Witherspoon, Joe Stampley, Joe Walsh, John Coltrane, John Lee Hooker, John Wesley Ryles, Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, Josh White, Julius La Rosa, Kevin Ayers, Kracker, Kvitka Cisyk, Larry Newton, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Lawrence Welk, Lenny Williams, Leonard Goldenson, Levon Helm, LHI Records, List of record labels, Lloyd Price, Lou Adler, Louis Armstrong, Lu Elliott, Marilyn McCoo, Mario Escudero, Möbius strip, MCA Records, Mickie Finn's, Mighty Clouds of Joy, Myrrh Records, NBC Radio Network, New York City, O. V. Wright, Ornette Coleman, Otis Spann, Paramount Pictures, Passport Records, Paul Anka, Pavlov's Dog (band), Peacock Records, Poco, Polka, Polydor Records, Pop music, Probe Records, Ramones, Ranwood Records, Rare Bird, Ray Charles, RCA, Rhythm and blues, Richard Harris, Rock and roll, Roy Brown (blues musician), Roy Clark, Roy Head, Royal Teens, Rufus (band), Sabicas, Shelly Manne, Shelter Records, Shirley Collie Nelson, Shirley Scott, Sire Records, Smith (band), Soft Machine, Solomon Burke, Song Bird Records, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Terry, Sony Music, Soundtrack album, Soupy Sales, Sparton Records, Steely Dan, Stephen Bishop (singer), Steppenwolf (band), Steve Lawrence, T-Bone Walker, Tangerine Records (1963), The 5th Dimension, The Brass Ring, The Crusaders, The Dells, The Dramatics, The Dubs, The Elegants, The Floaters, The Grass Roots, The Impressions, The Mamas & the Papas, The Marvelows, The O'Kaysions, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Pointer Sisters, The Poni-Tails, The Sapphires, The Sparkletones, The Walt Disney Company, Three Dog Night, Times Square, Tommy Roe, Universal Music Group, Voiceprint Records, W&G Records, Waldorf Music Hall Records, Warner Music Group, Westminster Records, Wha-Koo, Yusef Lateef, 1501 Broadway, 20th Century Fox Records. Expand index (163 more) »

Amazing Rhythm Aces

The Amazing Rhythm Aces is an American country rock group, which has characterized its music as "American music" or "roots music"—a blend of rock, country, blues, R&B, folk, reggae and Latino.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres

American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc.

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Anchor Records

Anchor Records was a UK based record label, co-founded by Ian Ralfini and the American Broadcasting Companies, which owned ABC Records in the United States, in 1974.

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Apt Records

Apt Records was a sub-label from ABC-Paramount Records.

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Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Ariola Records

Ariola Records (also known as Ariola, Ariola-Eurodisc and BMG Ariola) is a German record label.

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Art Blakey

Arthur "Art" Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.

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Audition Records

Audition RecordsArchive.org Audition Records Collection is an e-magazine project born in Berlin in 2010.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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B. J. Thomas

Billy Joe "B.J." Thomas (born August 7, 1942) is an American popular singer.

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B.B. King

Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer.

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Back Beat Records

Back Beat Records was an American record label launched in 1957 as the Houston-based soul sub-label of Duke Records, when it was run by Don Robey.

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Barbara Mandrell

Barbara Ann Mandrell (born December 25, 1948) is an American country music singer, musician, and actress.

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Barry Mann

Barry Mann (born Barry Imberman; February 9, 1939) is an American songwriter, and part of a successful songwriting partnership with his wife, Cynthia Weil.

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Barry McGuire

Barry McGuire (born October 15, 1935) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Betty Carter

Betty Carter (born Lillie Mae Jones; May 16, 1929 – September 26, 1998) was an American jazz singer known for her improvisational technique, scatting and other complex musical abilities that demonstrated her vocal talent and imaginative interpretation of lyrics and melodies.

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Beverly Sills

Beverly Sills (born Belle Miriam Silverman, May 25, 1929July 2, 2007) was an American operatic soprano whose peak career was between the 1950s and 1970s.

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Big Joe Turner

Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner Jr. (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri.

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Bigtop Records

Bigtop Records was an American record label started by music executive Johnny Bienstock and the major music publisher Hill & Range Music and was co-owned along with Big Top Record Distributors (sic).

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Billy "Crash" Craddock

Billy Wayne "Crash" Craddock (born June 16, 1939) is an American country and rockabilly singer.

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Billy Davis Jr.

Billy Davis Jr. (born June 26, 1938 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American musician, best known as a member of the 5th Dimension.

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Blood, Sweat & Tears

Blood, Sweat & Tears (also known as "BS&T") was a jazz-rock American music group.

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Blue Network

The Blue Network (previously the NBC Blue Network) was the on-air name of the now defunct American radio network, which ran from 1927 to 1945.

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Blue Thumb Records

Blue Thumb Records was an American record label founded in 1968 by Bob Krasnow and former A&M Records executives Tommy LiPuma and Don Graham.

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BluesWay Records

BluesWay Records was a subsidiary label of ABC-Paramount Records, begun by Bob Thiele in 1966.

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Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods

Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods are an American pop music group, known mainly for their 1970s hit singles, "Billy Don't Be A Hero" and "Who Do You Think You Are".

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Bob Thiele

Bob Thiele (July 27, 1922 – January 30, 1996) was an American record producer who worked on numerous classic jazz albums and record labels.

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Bobby Bland

Robert Calvin Bland (né Robert Calvin Brooks; January 27, 1930 – June 23, 2013), known professionally as Bobby "Blue" Bland, was an American blues singer.

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Bobby Hammack

Bobby Hammack (né Robert Vernor Hammack, Jr.; 22 January 1922 Brookston, Texas – 28 March 1990 Riverside, California) was an American musician, originally from Texas, whose principal instrument was jazz piano.

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Bobby Scott (musician)

Robert William Scott (January 29, 1937 – November 5, 1990) was an American musician, record producer, and songwriter.

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Bobby Vinton

Stanley Robert Vinton, Jr. (born April 16, 1935), known professionally as Bobby Vinton, is an American singer and songwriter.

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Brownie McGhee

Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee (November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996) was an African-American folk music and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaboration with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.

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Carl Carlton

Carl Carlton (born May 21, 1953) is an American R&B, soul, and funk singer-songwriter, best known for his hits "Everlasting Love" and "She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)".

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Chancellor Records

Chancellor Records was a record label associated with ABC-Paramount Records, which initially distributed the smaller label.

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Charles Brown (musician)

Tony Russell "Charles" Brown (September 13, 1922 – January 21, 1999) was an American blues singer and pianist whose soft-toned, slow-paced blues-club style influenced blues performance in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz double bassist, pianist, composer and bandleader.

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Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers

Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers are a 1960s British rhythm and blues, soul and beat group who had two Top 10 hits with "One Way Love" (#9 UK, 1964) and "Got to Get You into My Life" (#6 UK, 1966).

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Cliff Richard

Sir Cliff Richard, (born Harry Rodger Webb, 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist.

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Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Colonial Records

Colonial Records was a record label located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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Colortone Records

Colortone Records was a record label of Enoch Light.

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Command Records

Command Records (originally Command Performance Records) was a record label founded by Enoch Light in 1959 and later associated with ABC-Paramount Records.

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Compact disc

Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.

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Competition law

Competition law is a law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies.

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Concord Records

Concord Records is an American record label owned by Concord Music and based in Beverly Hills, California.

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Count Basie

William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Creed Taylor

Creed Taylor (born May 13, 1929) is an American record producer, best known for his work with CTI Records, which he founded in 1968.

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Crosby & Nash

In addition to solo careers and within the larger aggregate of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, the musical team of David Crosby and Graham Nash have performed and recorded regularly as a duo, mostly during the 1970s and the 2000s.

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Crowfoot (band)

Crowfoot was an American rock band, initially known as The Beau Gentry.

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Danny & the Juniors

Danny & the Juniors are a doo-wop and rock and roll vocal group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania originally consisting of Danny Rapp, Dave White, Frank Maffei and Joe Terranova.

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Disney Music Group

Disney Music Group (DMG) is the music recording arm of Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Don Robey

Don Deadric Robey (November 1, 1903 – June 16, 1975) - accessed May 2010 was an American record label executive, songwriter and record producer.

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Dot Records

Dot Records is an American record label founded by Randy Wood that was active between 1950 and 1979.

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Duke Records

Duke Records was an American record label, started in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1952 by David James Mattis (WDIA program director and DJ) and Bill Fitzgerald, owners of Tri-State Recording Company.

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Dunhill Records

Dunhill Records was started in 1964 by Lou Adler, Al Bennett, Pierre Cossette and Bobby Roberts as Dunhill Productions to release the music of Johnny Rivers on Imperial Records.

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Dusty Springfield

Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), professionally known as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer and record producer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s.

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Eddie Holman

Eddie Holman (born June 3, 1946) is an American singer and recording artist.

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Eddie Lund

Eddie Lund (October 12, 1909 – December 4, 1973) was a pianist and bandleader.

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Eddie Vinson

Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (born Edward L. Vinson Jr., December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter.

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Edward John Noble

Edward John Noble (October 8, 1882 – December 28, 1958) was an American broadcasting and candy industrialist originally from Gouverneur, New York.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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Emitt Rhodes

Emitt Lynn Rhodes (born February 25, 1950) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer.

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Enoch Light

Enoch Henry Light (18 August 1905, in Canton, Ohio – 31 July 1978, in Redding, Connecticut) was a classically trained violinist, danceband leader, and recording engineer.

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Eydie Gormé

Eydie Gormé (born Edith Garmezano; August 16, 1928 – August 10, 2013) was an American singer who performed solo as well as with her husband, Steve Lawrence, in popular ballads and swing.

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Famous Music

Famous Music Corporation was the worldwide music publishing division of Paramount Pictures, a division of Viacom since 1994.

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Fats Domino

Antoine "Fats" Domino Jr. (February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017) was an American pianist and singer-songwriter.

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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute (and) to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable.

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Ferrante & Teicher

Ferrante & Teicher were a duo of American piano players, known for their light arrangements of familiar classical pieces, movie soundtracks, and show tunes, as well as their signature style of florid, intricate and fast paced piano playing performances.

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Festival Records

Festival Records (later known as Festival Mushroom Records) was an Australian recording and publishing company founded in Sydney in 1952 and operated until 2005.

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Florence Ballard

Florence Glenda Chapman (née Ballard; June 30, 1943 – February 22, 1976) was an American singer.

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Four Tops

The Four Tops are a vocal quartet from Detroit, Michigan, USA, who helped to define the city's Motown sound of the 1960s.

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Frank Fontaine

Frank Fontaine (April 19, 1920 – August 4, 1978) was an American stage, radio, film and television comedian, singer and actor.

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Frankie Laine

Frankie Laine (born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio; March 30, 1913 – February 6, 2007) was an Italian American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005.

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Freddie Hubbard

Frederick Dewayne Hubbard (April 7, 1938 – December 29, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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Freddy Fender

Freddy Fender (born Baldemar Garza Huerta; June 4, 1937 – October 14, 2006) was a Mexican-American Tejano, country and rock and roll musician, known for his work as a solo artist and in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados.

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Gayle McCormick

Gayle McCormick (November 26, 1948 – March 1, 2016) was an American singer, best known for her work with the rock band Smith.

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Genesis (band)

Genesis were an English rock band formed at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey in 1967.

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George Hamilton IV

George Hege Hamilton IV (July 19, 1937 – September 17, 2014) was an American country musician.

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Gospel

Gospel is the Old English translation of Greek εὐαγγέλιον, evangelion, meaning "good news".

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Grand Award Records

Grand Award Records was a record label associated with ABC-Paramount Records Grand Award began life as Waldorf Music Hall records in the early 1950s.

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GRT Records

GRT Records was the name of both a U.S. and a Canadian record label, both created by General Recorded Tape, that existed from 1969 to 1979.

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GTO Records

GTO Records was a British record label which released many hits during the 1970s.

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Gulf and Western Industries

Gulf and Western Industries, Inc., (stylized as Gulf+Western) was an American conglomerate.

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Guy Marks

Guy Marks (31 October 1923 – 28 November 1987) was an American actor, comedian, singer and impressionist.

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Hello People

Hello People was a rock group that was created in New York City in late 1967 by producer Lou Futterman.

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Hickory Records

Hickory Records is an American record label founded in 1954 by Acuff-Rose Music, which operated the label up to 1979.

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Howard Roberts

Howard Roberts (October 2, 1929 – June 28, 1992) was an American jazz guitarist, educator, and session musician.

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Impulse! Records

Impulse! Records is an American jazz record company and label established by Creed Taylor in 1960.

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Isaac Hayes

Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer-songwriter, actor, voice actor and producer.

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Jack Scott (singer)

Jack Scott (born Giovanni Domenico Scafone, Jr., January 24, 1936, Windsor, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian American singer and songwriter.

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James Darren

James William Ercolani (born June 8, 1936), known by his stage name James Darren, is an American television and film actor, television director, and singer.

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James Gang

The James Gang was an American rock band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1966.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jerden Records

Jerden Records was an independent record label which operated from May 1960 through April 1971.

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Jim Croce

James Joseph Croce (January 10, 1943 – September 20, 1973) was an American folk and rock singer-songwriter.

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Jimmy Buffett

James William Buffett (born December 25, 1946) is an American musician, songwriter, author, actor, and businessman.

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Jimmy Reed

Mathis James Reed (September 6, 1925August 29, 1976) was an American blues musician and songwriter.

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Jimmy Rushing

James Andrew Rushing (August 26, 1901 – June 8, 1972) was an American blues shouter, balladeer, swing jazz singer, and pianist from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, best known as the featured vocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948.

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Jimmy Witherspoon

James Witherspoon (August 8, 1920 – September 18, 1997) was an American jump blues singer.

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Joe Stampley

Joe Stampley (born June 6, 1943, Springhill, Webster Parish, Louisiana) is an American country music singer.

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Joe Walsh

Joseph Fidler Walsh (born November 20, 1947) is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter.

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John Coltrane

John William Coltrane, also known as "Trane" (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967),.

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John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917; retrieved August 22, 2017. – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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John Wesley Ryles

John Wesley Ryles (born December 2, 1950) is an American country music artist.

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Johnny Kidd & the Pirates

Johnny Kidd & the Pirates were an English rock and roll group led by singer/songwriter Johnny Kidd.

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Josh White

Joshua Daniel White (February 11, 1914 – September 5, 1969) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor and civil rights activist.

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Julius La Rosa

Julius La Rosa (January 2, 1930 – May 12, 2016) was an Italian-American traditional popular music singer, who worked in both radio and television beginning in the 1950s.

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Kevin Ayers

Kevin Ayers (16 August 1944 – 18 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter who was a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement.

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Kracker

For the American musician, see Uncle Kracker, for the Austrian-Czech painter Johann Lucas Kracker Kracker were an American rock band active in the 1970s.

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Kvitka Cisyk

Kvitka (or "Kasey") Cisyk (Квітка Цісик, Kvitka Tsisyk; April 4, 1953, The Ukrainian Week (11 April 2013) – March 29, 1998) was an American coloratura soprano of Ukrainian ethnicity.

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Larry Newton

Larry Newton (né Louis I. Nutinsky 7 May 1920 Philadelphia – 30 January 2005, Pompano Beach, Florida) was an American record company entrepreneur, who, earlier in his career, worked with several independent labels.

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Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs (born September 4, 1953) is an American actor and singer.

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Lawrence Welk

Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992) was an American musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted the television program The Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982.

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Lenny Williams

Leonard Charles Williams (born February 16, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, best known for his work during the 1970s.

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Leonard Goldenson

Leonard H. Goldenson (December 7, 1905 – December 27, 1999) was a president of the U.S. television and radio network ABC.

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Levon Helm

Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm (May 26, 1940 – April 19, 2012) was an American musician and actor who achieved fame as the drummer and one of the vocalists for The Band.

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LHI Records

LHI Records was an American record label founded by Lee Hazlewood.

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List of record labels

For lists of record labels, see.

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Lloyd Price

Lloyd Price (born March 9, 1933) is an American R&B vocalist, known as "Mr.

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Lou Adler

Lou Adler (born December 13, 1933) is an American record producer, music executive, talent manager, songwriter, film director, film producer, and co-owner of the famous Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, California.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz.

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Lu Elliott

Lu Elliot (August 3, 1924 – March 5, 1987) was a jazz and blues singer and recording artist.

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Marilyn McCoo

Marilyn McCoo (born September 30, 1943) is an American singer, actress, and television presenter, who is best known for being the lead female vocalist in the group The 5th Dimension, as well as hosting the 1980s music countdown series Solid Gold.

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Mario Escudero

Mario Escudero Valero Jiménez Valverde (October 11, 1928 – November 19, 2004) was one of a handful of Spanish flamenco guitar virtuosos who helped spread flamenco beyond their homeland when they migrated to the United States in the early 1950s.

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Möbius strip

The Möbius strip or Möbius band, also spelled Mobius or Moebius, is a surface with only one side (when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space) and only one boundary.

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MCA Records

MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group (now Universal Music Group), which the label was part of until its dissolution in 2003.

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Mickie Finn's

Mickie Finn's (also known as Mickey Finn's) was the creation of piano player Fred E. Finn, who developed the concept in several different forms: a 1960s nightclub in San Diego, a television show on NBC in 1966, a series of compilation record albums issued from 1966 on, and a stageshow continuing on into the 21st century.

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Mighty Clouds of Joy

The Mighty Clouds of Joy are an American traditional gospel music quartet.

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Myrrh Records

Myrrh Records, also known as Myrrh Worship, was an American Christian music record label.

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NBC Radio Network

The National Broadcasting Company's NBC Radio Network (known as the NBC Red Network prior to 1942) was an American commercial radio network, founded in 1926.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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O. V. Wright

Overton Vertis "O.

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Ornette Coleman

Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer.

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Otis Spann

Otis Spann (March 21, 1924 or 1930 – April 24, 1970) was an American blues musician, whom many consider to be the leading postwar Chicago blues pianist.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Passport Records

Passport Records was a U.S.-based independent record label that existed between 1973 and 1988.

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Paul Anka

Paul Albert Anka, (born July 30, 1941) is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actor.

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Pavlov's Dog (band)

Pavlov's Dog is a 1970s progressive rock/AOR band formed in St. Louis, Missouri in 1972.

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Peacock Records

Peacock Records was an American record label, started in 1949 by Don Robey in Houston, Texas, United States.

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Poco

Poco is an American country rock band originally formed by Richie Furay, Jim Messina and Rusty Young.

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Polka

The polka is originally a Czech dance and genre of dance music familiar throughout Europe and the Americas.

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Polydor Records

Polydor is a British record label and company, that operates as part of Universal Music Group.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Probe Records

Probe Records was a sub-label of ABC Records.

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Ramones

The Ramones were an American punk rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974.

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Ranwood Records

Ranwood Records was an American record label started in 1968 by Randy Wood (after he left Dot Records) and Lawrence Welk.

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Rare Bird

Rare Bird were an English progressive rock band, formed in 1969.

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Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known professionally as Ray Charles, was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer.

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RCA

The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded as the Radio Corporation of America in 1919.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Richard Harris

Richard St.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Roy Brown (blues musician)

Roy James Brown (September 10, 1920 or 1925May 25, 1981) was an American R&B singer, songwriter and musician, who had a significant influence on the early development of rock and roll and the direction of R&B.

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Roy Clark

Roy Linwood Clark (born April 15, 1933) is an American singer and musician.

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Roy Head

Roy Kent Head (born January 9, 1941 in Three Rivers, Texas) is an American singer, best known for his hit "Treat Her Right".

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Royal Teens

The Royal Teens was a New Jersey rock and roll band that formed in 1956, which was composed of Bob Gaudio on piano, Tom Austin on drums, Billy Dalton on guitar, and Billy Crandall on saxophone.

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Rufus (band)

Rufus was an American funk band from Chicago, Illinois best known for launching the career of lead singer Chaka Khan.

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Sabicas

Sabicas (proper name: Agustín Castellón Campos) (16 March 1912 – 14 April 1990) was a flamenco guitarist of Romani origin.

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Shelly Manne

Sheldon "Shelly" Manne (June 11, 1920 – September 26, 1984), was an American jazz drummer.

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Shelter Records

Shelter Records was a U.S. record label started by Leon Russell and Denny Cordell that operated from 1969 to 1981.

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Shirley Collie Nelson

Shirley Collie Nelson (March 16, 1931 – January 27, 2010), born Shirley Angelina Simpson, was an American country music and rockabilly singer, yodeler, guitarist and songwriter.

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Shirley Scott

Shirley Scott (March 14, 1934 – March 10, 2002) - accessed May 2010 was an African-American hard bop and soul-jazz organist.

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Sire Records

Sire Records is an American record label that is owned by Warner Music Group and distributed by Warner Bros. Records.

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Smith (band)

Smith was an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1969.

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Soft Machine

Soft Machine are an English rock and jazz band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs.

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Solomon Burke

Solomon Burke (born James Solomon McDonald, March 21, 1940 – October 10, 2010) was an American preacher and singer who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues as one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s.

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Song Bird Records

Song Bird Records (also known as SongBird Records) was started at the end of 1963 as a gospel music subsidiary of Houston, Texas-based Duke/Peacock Records.

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Sonny Rollins

Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians.

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Sonny Terry

Saunders Teddell, or Saunders Terrell (or other variants, sources differ) (October 24, 1911 – March 11, 1986), known as Sonny Terry, was an American Piedmont blues and folk musician, who was known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers and occasionally imitations of trains and fox hunts.

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Sony Music

Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is a Japanese-owned global music conglomerate owned by Sony and incorporated as a general partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. (in Japanese), Sony Corporation The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records, and Sony Corporation bought the company in 1988, renaming it under its current name in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture called Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which transferred the businesses of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group into one entity. However, in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake, and the company reverted to the SME name shortly after; the buyout allowed Sony to acquire all of BMG's labels, including former Columbia Pictures subsidiary Arista Records as well as RCA Records, and led to the dissolution of BMG, which instead relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is the second largest of the "Big Three" record companies in the world, behind Universal Music Group (UMG) and ahead of Warner Music Group (WMG). Sony's music publishing division is the world's largest music publisher after the acquisition of EMI. It also owns SYCO Entertainment, which operates some of the world's most successful reality TV format including Got Talent and The X Factor.

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Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television show.

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Soupy Sales

Milton Supman (January 8, 1926 – October 22, 2009), known professionally as Soupy Sales, was an American comedian, actor, radio/television personality, and jazz aficionado.

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Sparton Records

Sparton Records was a Canadian record company which was based in London, Ontario.

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Steely Dan

Steely Dan is an American rock band founded by core members Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals) in 1972.

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Stephen Bishop (singer)

Earl Stephen Bishop (born November 14, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter, actor, and guitarist.

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Steppenwolf (band)

Steppenwolf is a Canadian-American rock band, prominent from 1968 to 1972.

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Steve Lawrence

Steve Lawrence (born Sidney Liebowitz; July 8, 1935) is an American singer and actor, best known as a member of a duo with his wife Eydie Gormé, billed as "Steve and Eydie".

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T-Bone Walker

Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker (May 28, 1910 – March 16, 1975) was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who was a pioneer and innovator of the jump blues and electric blues sound.

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Tangerine Records (1963)

Tangerine Records was a record label owned by Ray Charles between 1962 and 1973.

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The 5th Dimension

The 5th Dimension is an American popular music vocal group, whose repertoire includes pop, R&B, soul, jazz, light opera and Broadway—the melange was coined as "Champagne Soul." Formed as The Versatiles in late 1965, the group changed its name to the hipper "The 5th Dimension" by 1966.

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The Brass Ring

The Brass Ring was a group of American studio musicians led by saxophonist and arranger Phil Bodner.

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The Crusaders

The Crusaders was an American jazz fusion group that was popular in the 1970s. The group was known as the Jazz Crusaders before shortening its name in 1971.

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The Dells

The Dells were an American R&B vocal group.

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The Dramatics

The Dramatics (formerly The Dynamics) are an American soul music vocal group, formed in Detroit, Michigan, in 1964.

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The Dubs

The Dubs are an American doo wop vocal group formed in 1956, best known for their songs "Could This Be Magic", "Don't Ask Me to Be Lonely" and "Chapel of Dreams".

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The Elegants

The Elegants is an American doo-wop vocal group, that was started in 1958 by Vito Picone, Arthur Venosa, Frank Tardogno, Carman Romano and James Moschello in South Beach, Staten Island, New York.

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The Floaters

The Floaters were an American R&B vocal group, from the Sojourner Truth housing projects in Detroit, Michigan, that formed in 1976.

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The Grass Roots

The Grass Roots are an American rock band that charted frequently between 1966 and 1975.

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The Impressions

The Impressions are an American music group originally formed in 1958.

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The Mamas & the Papas

The Mamas & the Papas were a Canadian-American folk rock vocal group who recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968.

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The Marvelows

The Marvelows were an American soul group from Chicago, formed in 1959.

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The O'Kaysions

The O'Kaysions are an American pop / blue-eyed soul group originally from Wilson, North Carolina, United States.

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The Oak Ridge Boys

The Oak Ridge Boys are an American country and gospel vocal quartet.

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The Pointer Sisters

The Pointer Sisters are an American R&B singing group from Oakland, California, who achieved mainstream success during the 1970s and 1980s.

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The Poni-Tails

The Poni-Tails were an American girl group from Lyndhurst, Ohio.

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The Sapphires

The Sapphires were an American pop ensemble from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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The Sparkletones

The Sparkletones (sometimes credited as Joe Bennett & the Sparkletones) were an American rock and roll/rockabilly group from Spartanburg, South Carolina.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

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Three Dog Night

Three Dog Night is an American rock band.

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Times Square

Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment center and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue.

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Tommy Roe

Thomas David "Tommy" Roe (born May 9, 1942)) is an American pop music singer-songwriter. Best-remembered for his hits "Sheila" (1962) and "Dizzy" (1969), Roe was "widely perceived as one of the archetypal bubblegum artists of the late 1960s, but cut some pretty decent rockers along the way, especially early in his career,” wrote the Allmusic journalist Bill Dahl.

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Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group (also known in the United States as UMG Recordings, Inc. and abbreviated as UMG) is an American global music corporation that is a subsidiary of the French media conglomerate Vivendi.

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Voiceprint Records

Voiceprint Records was a record label based in England, founded in 1990 by Rob Ayling.

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W&G Records

W&G Records was an Australian recording company that operated from the early 1950s to the 1970s.

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Waldorf Music Hall Records

Waldorf Music Hall Records was a budget record label exclusively sold in Woolworth stores from 1954 to 1959.

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Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group (WMG, also referred to as Warner Music or WEA International) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City.

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Westminster Records

Westminster Records was an American classical music record label, issuing original recordings until 1965.

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Wha-Koo

Wha-Koo was an American rock band best known for their 1978 single, "(You're Such a) Fabulous Dancer", which peaked at #101 on the Billboard and #10 on the Australian charts.

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Yusef Lateef

Yusef Abdul Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston; October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in America, in 1950.

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1501 Broadway

1501 Broadway, also known as the Paramount Building, is a 33-story, office building.

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20th Century Fox Records

20th Century Fox Records, also known as 20th Fox Records and 20th Century Records, was a wholly owned subsidiary of film studio 20th Century Fox.

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References

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