Alta Records was a record label founded in Dallas, Texas

Dallas, Texas

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 in the early 1960s by pioneer, radio personality Jim Lowe. Lowe was a popular DJ who hosted a rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

 program "Kat's Karavan" from the WRR-AM studios located at Fair Park in Dallas. He was one of the first DJs in the Southwest

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 to introduce early R&B recording artists to a main-stream, white audience. His program became enormously popular and was broadcast well into the 1960s. Lowe was also noted for airing his "Library Of Laughs" which featured many up and coming comics like Brother Dave Gardner

Brother Dave Gardner

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 and Justin Wilson

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Jim Lowe was a prominent record/music force in the DFW area having founded several labels including White Rock Records, Division Records and Alta Records. Lowe was also the voice of "Big Tex

Big Tex

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" at the State Fair of Texas

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 for many, many years.

Alta Records were produced for the Top 40 radio market and they had several chart successes. Jim Lowe "The Cool Fool" (as he was known as) died in 2000 but left a legacy of popular recordings that have become highly-prized collectables in the world of vinyl.

• Submitter's Note: Dallas' Jim Lowe should not be confused with the Jim Lowe
  Jim Lowe
  Jim Lowe is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his 1956 number-one hit record, "The Green Door". He also served as a disc jockey and radio host and personality, and has been considered an expert on the popular music of the 1940s and 1950s.-Biography:Born in Springfield, Missouri, Lowe...
  
   who recorded "Green Door
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  " for Dot Records
  Dot Records
  Dot Records was an American record label and company that was active between 1950 and 1977. It was founded by Randy Wood. In Gallatin, Tennessee, Wood had earlier started a mail order record shop, known for its radio ads on WLAC in Nashville and its R&B air personality Bill "Hoss" Allen...
  
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Alta Records discography

• 100 - Gloria Barr - Ain't That A Crying Shame/Love Me
• 101 -
• 102 - The Destinys - Think About It/What's Up
• 103 - Odell Booker - Chi Bob/Come Cry On My Shoulder
• 104 - Gene Summers - You Said You Loved Me/Tomorrow
• 105 -
• 106 - Gene Summers - Dance Dance Dance/Juke Box Memories
• 107 - Larry Agan - Honey Don't/Cryin' Time
• 108 - Jimmy Velvit - That's All I Got From You (w/Bobby Hendricks)/I Got A Feeling
• 109 - Jimmy Velvit - Sometimes I Wonder/My Heart Is In Your Hand
• 110 -
• 111 - Peyton Park - Bad Mouth/Blue Norther (1964)
• 112 -
• 113 - Glenn Keener - Oil Break/Tracking
• 114 - Susie Johnson - Sweet Bird/Mourning Dove
• 115 - Susie Johnson - 10,000 Tears/Time Hurries By