Cadet Records was started as
Argo RecordsArgo Records was started in December of 1956 as primarily a jazz subsidiary of Chess Records. Originally the label was called Marterry, but bandleader Ralph Marterie objected, and the imprint was quickly renamed Argo. Jazz performers on the label included Ahmad Jamal, King Fleming, and Ramsey Lewis...
in
1955-Events:*January 1 - RCA victor announces a marketing plan called "Operation TNT." The label drops the list price on LPs from $5.95 to $3.98, EPs from $4.95 to $2.98, 45 EPs from $1.58 to $1.49 and 45's from $1.16 to $.89...
as the
jazzJazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
subsidiary of
Chess RecordsChess Records was an American record label based in Chicago, Illinois. It specialized in blues, R&B, gospel music, early rock and roll, and occasional jazz releases....
. Argo changed its name in 1965 to Cadet to avoid confusion with the similarly named label in the UK. Cadet stopped releasing records around
1974-Events:*January - The Ramones form.*January - Joni Mitchell releases her monumental album Court and Spark, supported by the single "Help Me" reaching the highest moment of commercial success....
when its artists were released via Chess.
There was also Cadet Concept records, for rock and more adventurous music, such as the
Rotary ConnectionRotary Connection was a psychedelic soul band formed in Chicago in 1966. The highly experimental band was the idea of Marshall Chess, son of Chess Records founder Leonard Chess. Marshall was the director behind a start-up label, Cadet Concept Records, and wanted to focus on music outside of the...
, and the now-infamous experimental psychedelic
Electric MudElectric Mud is a 1968 album by Muddy Waters which mixed blues with psychedelic rock arrangements on several of Waters' classic songs. The album peaked at #127 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart.-Production:...
album by
Muddy WatersMcKinley Morganfield , better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered "the Father of Chicago blues". He is also the actual father of blues musicians Big Bill Morganfield and Larry "Mud Morganfield" Williams...
.
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Cadet Records was started as
Argo RecordsArgo Records was started in December of 1956 as primarily a jazz subsidiary of Chess Records. Originally the label was called Marterry, but bandleader Ralph Marterie objected, and the imprint was quickly renamed Argo. Jazz performers on the label included Ahmad Jamal, King Fleming, and Ramsey Lewis...
in
1955-Events:*January 1 - RCA victor announces a marketing plan called "Operation TNT." The label drops the list price on LPs from $5.95 to $3.98, EPs from $4.95 to $2.98, 45 EPs from $1.58 to $1.49 and 45's from $1.16 to $.89...
as the
jazzJazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
subsidiary of
Chess RecordsChess Records was an American record label based in Chicago, Illinois. It specialized in blues, R&B, gospel music, early rock and roll, and occasional jazz releases....
. Argo changed its name in 1965 to Cadet to avoid confusion with the similarly named label in the UK. Cadet stopped releasing records around
1974-Events:*January - The Ramones form.*January - Joni Mitchell releases her monumental album Court and Spark, supported by the single "Help Me" reaching the highest moment of commercial success....
when its artists were released via Chess.
There was also Cadet Concept records, for rock and more adventurous music, such as the
Rotary ConnectionRotary Connection was a psychedelic soul band formed in Chicago in 1966. The highly experimental band was the idea of Marshall Chess, son of Chess Records founder Leonard Chess. Marshall was the director behind a start-up label, Cadet Concept Records, and wanted to focus on music outside of the...
, and the now-infamous experimental psychedelic
Electric MudElectric Mud is a 1968 album by Muddy Waters which mixed blues with psychedelic rock arrangements on several of Waters' classic songs. The album peaked at #127 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart.-Production:...
album by
Muddy WatersMcKinley Morganfield , better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered "the Father of Chicago blues". He is also the actual father of blues musicians Big Bill Morganfield and Larry "Mud Morganfield" Williams...
. The label also had a Top 20 hit in 1968 with the single "Pictures Of Matchstick Men" by the British band
Status QuoStatus Quo, also known as The Quo or just Quo, are an English rock band whose music is characterized by their distinctive brand of boogie rock....
through a licensing arrangent with
Pye RecordsPye Records was a British record label. In its first incarnation, Pye's best known artists were Lonnie Donegan , Petula Clark , The Searchers , The Kinks , and Brotherhood of Man . The label changed its name in 1980 but was briefly reactivated in 2006.-History:The Pye Company originally sold...
in London.
The
mastersA master recording is an original recording, from which copies may be made.When recording on to magnetic or digital tape, the original tape is known as the master tape.When recording on to a computer hard disk, it is known as session files....
are now owned by Universal Music.