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King Records is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
, started in 1943 by Syd Nathan
Syd Nathan

Syd Nathan was an United States hillbilly, country & western and rhythm and blues record producer. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He started the Queen Records label in 1943....
 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border....
. At first it specialized in country music
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
, at the time still known as "hillbilly music." King advertised, "If it's a King, It's a Hillbilly -- If it's a Hillbilly, it's a King." One of the label's most important hits was "I'm Using My Bible for a Road Map" by Reno and Smiley
Reno and Smiley

Reno and Smiley were a musical Duet composed of two highly talented musicians, Don Reno and Arthur Lee "Red" Smiley. They were one of the greatest duos in country music of the 1950s and early 1960s....
. Very important recordings in this field were done by The Delmore Brothers
The Delmore Brothers

Alton Delmore and Rabon Delmore , billed as The Delmore Brothers, were country music pioneers and stars of the Grand Ole Opry in the 1930s....
 and Wayne Raney
Wayne Raney

Wayne Raney was an American country music singer and harmonica player.Raney was born on a farm with a foot deformity and could not do heavy labor....
 featuring their close harmony vocals, harmonica, electric guitar and string band playing.

The company also had a "Race Records" (African American
African American

African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the Black people populations of Africa....
) label, Queen Records (which was melted into the King label within a year or two) and most notably (starting in 1950) Federal Records
Federal Records

Federal Records was an United States record label founded in 1950 in music as a subsidiary of Syd Nathan's King Records and based at Cincinnati, Ohio....
 which launched the singing career of James Brown
James Brown

James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
.






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King Records is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
, started in 1943 by Syd Nathan
Syd Nathan

Syd Nathan was an United States hillbilly, country & western and rhythm and blues record producer. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He started the Queen Records label in 1943....
 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border....
. At first it specialized in country music
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
, at the time still known as "hillbilly music." King advertised, "If it's a King, It's a Hillbilly -- If it's a Hillbilly, it's a King." One of the label's most important hits was "I'm Using My Bible for a Road Map" by Reno and Smiley
Reno and Smiley

Reno and Smiley were a musical Duet composed of two highly talented musicians, Don Reno and Arthur Lee "Red" Smiley. They were one of the greatest duos in country music of the 1950s and early 1960s....
. Very important recordings in this field were done by The Delmore Brothers
The Delmore Brothers

Alton Delmore and Rabon Delmore , billed as The Delmore Brothers, were country music pioneers and stars of the Grand Ole Opry in the 1930s....
 and Wayne Raney
Wayne Raney

Wayne Raney was an American country music singer and harmonica player.Raney was born on a farm with a foot deformity and could not do heavy labor....
 featuring their close harmony vocals, harmonica, electric guitar and string band playing.

The company also had a "Race Records" (African American
African American

African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the Black people populations of Africa....
) label, Queen Records (which was melted into the King label within a year or two) and most notably (starting in 1950) Federal Records
Federal Records

Federal Records was an United States record label founded in 1950 in music as a subsidiary of Syd Nathan's King Records and based at Cincinnati, Ohio....
 which launched the singing career of James Brown
James Brown

James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
. In the 1950s, this side of the business outpaced the hillbilly recordings. King Records was highly successful after the hiring of Ralph Bass
Ralph Bass

Ralph Bass , born in The Bronx, New York, was an influential Jewish American rhythm and blues record producer and talent scout for several independent labels and was responsible for many hit records....
 and recorded R&B artists like Valerie Carr
Valerie Carr

Valerie Carr is an African-American singer. Her most fondly remembered single is probably "I Talk Too Much," her answer song to Joe Jones ' 1960 hit, "You Talk Too Much"....
, Roy Brown
Roy Brown

Roy Brown may refer to:*Roy Brown , Montana state Senator and gubernatorial candidate*Roy Brown *Roy Brown , Canadian pilot who was originally credited with shooting down the Red Baron...
, Jack Dupree
Champion Jack Dupree

William Thomas Dupree, best known as Champion Jack Dupree, was an United States blues pianist. His birth date is disputed, given as July 4, July 10, and July 23, in the years 1908, 1909, or 1910....
, Otis Williams & the Charms, Hank Ballard & the Midnighters
Hank Ballard

Hank Ballard was an rhythm and blues singer, the lead vocalist of Hank Ballard and The Midnighters and one of the first proto-rock 'n' roll to emerge in the early 1950s....
, Ivory Joe Hunter
Ivory Joe Hunter

For the Motown producer-songwriter, see Joe Hunter .Ivory Joe Hunter was an African American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist, best known for his hit recording, "Since I Met You Baby " ....
 and Johnny "Guitar" Watson. They also had a long legal battle with James Brown, after he repeatedly violated his King contract.

King also bought out several other record labels, including Deluxe Records
Deluxe Records

Deluxe Records is the record label off the german hip-hop artist Samy Deluxe, in Hamburg....
 (in 1952), and Bethlehem Records
Bethlehem Records

Bethlehem Records was a record label founded by Gus Wild and bought by King Records . It is mainly remembered for its jazz releases. It was the record company under which Nina Simone's 1958 in music debut album came out ....
.
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When Nathan died in 1968, King Records was acquired by Hal Neely's Starday Records and relaunched as 'Starday and King Records'. The legendary songwriting duo Leiber & Stoller
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Jerome "Jerry" Leiber and Mike Stoller are among the most influential American songwriters and music producers in post-World War II popular music....
 bought the label in 1970, but sold it soon afterwards to Lin Broadcasting which in turn sold it to Tennessee Recording & Publishing, owned by Freddy Bienstock
Freddy Bienstock

Freddy Bienstock is an American Music publisher ....
, Hal Neely, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller; who sold it in 1974 to Gusto Records
Gusto Records

Gusto Records is a Nashville, Tennessee based record company specializing in reissuing and licensing recordings from its vast catalogue of music from acquired record labels and their own studio recordings....
. In 1971, James Brown
James Brown

James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
's recording contract and back catalogue were sold to Polydor Records
Polydor Records

Polydor Records is a record label currently headquartered in the United Kingdom, and is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group....
.

Since 2001, Collectables Records
Collectables Records

Collectables Records is a reissue record label founded in 1980 in music by Jerry Greene. Greene was previously associated with New York City's Times Square Record Shop, Philadelphia's Record Museum retail chain, and the Lost Nite Records and Crimson Records record labels....
 has been remastering and reissuing the King Records catalogue. King Records is now only used as a record label under the parent company, Gusto Records.

King Records artists

  • Kay Adams
    Kay Adams

    Katherine Adams Corleone is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's The Godfather . She was portrayed by Diane Keaton in Francis Ford Coppola's trilogy of films based on the novel....
  • Rush Adams
  • Tex Atchison
  • Bailes Brothers
  • Hank Ballard
    Hank Ballard

    Hank Ballard was an rhythm and blues singer, the lead vocalist of Hank Ballard and The Midnighters and one of the first proto-rock 'n' roll to emerge in the early 1950s....
  • Arne Barnett
  • Curt Barrett
  • Billy Barton
  • Ralph Bass
    Ralph Bass

    Ralph Bass , born in The Bronx, New York, was an influential Jewish American rhythm and blues record producer and talent scout for several independent labels and was responsible for many hit records....
  • Boyd Bennett
    Boyd Bennett

    Boyd Bennett was a songwriter and singer.Bennett was born in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Alabama but attended high school in Tennessee and formed his first band there....
  • Blind Blake
    Blind Blake

    "Blind" Blake was an influential blues singer and guitarist. He is often called "The King Of Ragtime Guitar".Blind Blake recorded about 80 tracks for Paramount Records in the late 1920s and early 1930s....
  • Jimmie Blue
  • Bonnie Lou
    Bonnie Lou

    Bonnie Lou is an United States and Country Music singer. During the mid 1950s, rock and roll was the hottest selling music on the market. Few women however ventured into this territory, like Bonnie Lou....
  • Earl Bostic
    Earl Bostic

    Earl Bostic was an United States jazz and rhythm and blues alto saxophone, a pioneer of the post-war American Rhythm and Blues style. He had a number of popular hits such as "Flamingo", "Harlem Nocturne", "Temptation", "Sleep" and "Where or When", which showed off his characteristic growl on the horn....
  • Duke Bowman
  • Donnie Bowshier
  • Bob Braun
    Bob Braun

    Bob Braun was a local television and radio personality in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was born in Ludlow, Kentucky.He was best known for The Bob Braun Show, which he hosted from 1967 to 1984 ....
  • James Brown
    James Brown

    James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
  • Roy Brown
    Roy Brown

    Roy Brown may refer to:*Roy Brown , Montana state Senator and gubernatorial candidate*Roy Brown *Roy Brown , Canadian pilot who was originally credited with shooting down the Red Baron...
  • Brown's Ferry Four
  • Neal Burris
  • Jack Cardwell
  • Bill Carlisle
    Bill Carlisle

    Bill Carlisle was an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist....
  • Valerie Carr
    Valerie Carr

    Valerie Carr is an African-American singer. Her most fondly remembered single is probably "I Talk Too Much," her answer song to Joe Jones ' 1960 hit, "You Talk Too Much"....
  • Mark Carter
  • Petula Clark
    Petula Clark

    Petula Clark, Order of the British Empire , is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II....
  • David Allan Coe
    David Allan Coe

    David Allan Coe is an American country music singer who achieved his greatest popularity in the 1970s and 1980s. He has written and performed over 280 original songs throughout his career....
  • Emil Coleman
  • Cowboy Copas
    Cowboy Copas

    Lloyd Estel Copas , better known by his stage name Cowboy Copas, was an United States country music singer....
  • The Cope Brothers
  • Carolina Cotton
  • Mel Cox
  • Bruce Culver
  • Mac Curtis
    Mac Curtis

    Wesley Erwin "Mac" Curtis, Jr. is an American rockabilly musician.Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Curtis began playing guitar at the age of 12, entering local talent competitions....
  • Delmore Brothers
  • Cowboy Jack Derrick
  • Al Dexter
    Al Dexter

    Al Dexter was an American country musician and songwriter. He is best known for "Pistol Packin' Mama", a 1942 hit that was one of the most popular recordings of the World War II years and would later become a hit again with a cover by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters....
  • Jack Dupree
  • Bill Doggett
    Bill Doggett

    William Ballard Doggett was an United States jazz and rhythm and blues pianist and organist.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, his mother, a church pianist, introduced him to music when he was 9 years old....
  • Pop Eckler
  • Red Egner
  • Brother Claude Ely
  • Milton Estes
  • Charlie Feathers
    Charlie Feathers

    Charles Feathers, , was an influential rockabilly and country music performer.Charles Arthur Feathers was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and recorded a string of popular singles like "Peepin' Eyes," "Defrost Your Heart," "Tongue-Tied Jill," and "Bottle to the Baby" on Sun Records, Meteor and King Records in the 1950s....
  • Irving Fields
    Irving Fields

    Irving Fields is an United States pianist and lounge music artist who was born in New York City, New York.Some of his most noteworthy compositions include "Miami Beach Rhumba", "Managua, Nicaragua " and "Chantez, Chantez," covered by Dinah Shore in the 1940s....
  • Curley Fox
  • Charlie Gore
  • Shannon Grayson
  • Rex Griffin
    Rex Griffin

    Alsie "Rex" Griffin was an American country musician....
  • Hardrock Gunter
    Hardrock Gunter

    Sidney Louie Gunter Jr. , known as Hardrock Gunter, is a singer, songwriter and guitarist whose music at the turn of the 1950s prefigured rock and roll and rockabilly music....
  • Wynonie Harris
    Wynonie Harris

    Wynonie "Mr. Blues" Harris , born in Omaha, Nebraska, was an United States blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer of upbeat songs featuring humorous, often ribald lyrics....
  • Esco Hawkins
  • Hawkshaw Hawkins
    Hawkshaw Hawkins

    Harold Franklin Hawkins , better known by his stage name Hawkshaw Hawkins, was a country music singer and member of the Grand Ole Opry from Huntington, West Virginia, West Virginia....
  • Herb and Kay
  • Fiddlin' Red Herron
  • Fairley Holden
  • Sally Holmes
  • Homer and Jethro
    Homer and Jethro

    Homer and Jethro were an United States country music team with a long career from the 1940s through the 1960s, sometimes known as "the thinking man's hillbilly," specializing in comedy Gramophone record and satire versions of popular songs....
  • Earl Hooker
    Earl Hooker

    Earl Hooker was an United States blues guitarist. Hooker was a Chicago slide guitarist in the same league as Elmore James, Hound Dog Taylor, and his mentor, Robert Nighthawk....
  • Paul Howard
    Paul Howard

    Paul Howard is a journalist with the Irish Times on Saturday, an Ireland newspaper. Howard is best known as the author of the paper's Ross O'Carroll-Kelly columns....
  • Billy Hughes
    Billy Hughes

    William Morris 'Billy' Hughes, Companion of Honour, Kings Counsel , Australian politician, was the seventh Prime Minister of Australia, the List of longest-serving members of the Australian House of Representatives, and one of the most colourful figures in Australian political history....
  • Ivory Joe Hunter
    Ivory Joe Hunter

    For the Motown producer-songwriter, see Joe Hunter .Ivory Joe Hunter was an African American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist, best known for his hit recording, "Since I Met You Baby " ....
  • Bill Hutlo
  • The Ink Spots
    The Ink Spots

    The Ink Spots were a popular African American vocal group that helped define the musical genre that led to rhythm & blues and rock and roll, and the subgenre doo-wop....
  • Louis Innis
  • Little Willie John
    Little Willie John

    William Edward John, better known by the stage name Little Willie John was an American R&B singer of the 1950s and early 1960s, best known for his hits "All Around the World" and the cover version "Fever " , a tune copied by Peggy Lee and made famous in 1958....
  • Johnny & Jack
  • Rome Johnson
  • Ann Jones
    Ann Jones

    Ann Jones may refer to:*Ann Haydon-Jones, British tennis champion, born 1938*Ann Jones , born 1953, Labour politician and member of the National Assembly for Wales representing Vale of Clwyd...
  • Grandpa Jones
    Grandpa Jones

    Louis Marshall "Grandpa" Jones was an United States banjo player and "old time" country music and gospel music singer....
  • Howdy Kemp
  • Art Kibbee
  • Nelson King
  • Steve Lawrence
    Steve Lawrence

    Steve Lawrence is an United States singer, perhaps best known as a member of a Duet with his wife Eydie Gorm?, billed as Steve and Eydie. The two have appeared together since appearing regularly on Steve Allen 's The Tonight Show in the mid-1950s....
  • Ann Leaf
  • Lightcrust Doughboys
  • Charlie Linville
  • Buddy Livingstone
  • Shorty Long
    Shorty Long

    Frederick Earl "Shorty" Long was an African-American soul music singer, songwriter, and record producer for Motown's Soul Records imprint. He was a native of Birmingham, Alabama, United States, and a 1980 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame....
  • Trini Lopez
    Trini Lopez

    Trini Lopez is a Mexican-American singing and guitarist....
  • J. E. Mainer
    J. E. Mainer

    J. E. Mainer was an American old time music fiddler who followed in the wake of Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers....
  • Wade Mainer
    Wade Mainer

    Wade Mainer is an American singer and banjoist. With his band, the Sons of the Mountaineers, he is credited with bridging the gap between old-time mountain music and Bluegrass music and is sometimes called the "Grandfather of Bluegrass." In addition, he innovated a two-finger banjo fingerpicking style, which was a precursor to modern three-f...
  • Kitty Mann
  • Eddie Martin
  • Jimmy Martin
    Jimmy Martin

    Jimmy Martin was an United States bluegrass music musician, known as the "King of Bluegrass"....
  • Luke McDaniel
    Luke McDaniel

    Luke McDaniel , who also recorded under the stage name Jeff Daniels, was an American country music singer and songwriter.McDaniel was born in Ellisville, Mississippi and raised on a farm....
  • Minnie Pearl
    Minnie Pearl

    Minnie Pearl was the stage name of Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon , a country comedienne who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years and on the television show Hee Haw from 1969 to 1991....
  • Deke Moffitt
  • Marvin Montgomery
  • Clyde Moody
    Clyde Moody

    Clyde Moody , also known as the "Hillbilly Waltz King" and sometimes as "The Genial Gentleman of Country Music" was one the great founders of American Bluegrass music....
  • Lattie Moore
  • Moon Mullican
    Moon Mullican

    Aubrey Wilson Mullican , known as Moon Mullican, was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and pianist. However, he also sang and played jazz, rock 'n' roll and the blues....
  • Bud Newman
  • Mac O'Dell
  • Matty O'Neil
  • Jimmy Osborne
  • Hot Lips Page
  • Randall Parker
  • Hank Penny
    Hank Penny

    Herbert Clayton Penny was an accomplished banjo player and practitioner of western swing. He worked as a comedian best known for his backwoods character "That Plain Ol' Country Boy" on TV with Spade Cooley....
  • Red Perkins
  • Jack Perry
  • Teddy Phillips
  • Pied Pipers
  • Dewey Price
  • Tommy Prisco
  • Reno and Smiley
    Reno and Smiley

    Reno and Smiley were a musical Duet composed of two highly talented musicians, Don Reno and Arthur Lee "Red" Smiley. They were one of the greatest duos in country music of the 1950s and early 1960s....
  • Wayne Raney
    Wayne Raney

    Wayne Raney was an American country music singer and harmonica player.Raney was born on a farm with a foot deformity and could not do heavy labor....
  • Don Reno
    Don Reno

    Don Reno was a Bluegrass music and country musician best known as a banjo player in partnership with Arthur Lee "Red" Smiley and later Bill Harrell....
     and Red Smiley
  • Johnny Rion
  • Kenny Roberts
    Kenny Roberts (musician)

    Kenny Roberts was a country music singer, born in Lenoir City, Tn., but raised on a farm outside of Greenfield, MA.He started in music at the age of 11, when he organized a band comprised entirely of young harmonica players....
  • Floyd Robinson
    Floyd Robinson

    Floyd Andrew Robinson is a former outfielder in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox , Cincinnati Reds , Oakland Athletics , and Boston Red Sox ....
  • Mickey Rooney
    Mickey Rooney

    Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
  • Leon Rusk
    Leon Rusk

    Malcolm Leon Rusk was a 1940s country singer and music writer. He was born in Canyon, Texas and died, aged 28, in an accident near Tulia, Texas....
  • Ralph Sanford
  • Shelton Brothers
    Shelton Brothers

    Shelton BrothersThe Shelton Brothers, Bob, Joe and Merle, were pioneer, country musicians and renowned recording artists based out of Texas from the mid 1930s through the 1960s....
  • Riley Shephard
  • Sheppard Brothers
  • Arthur Q. Smith
  • The Stanley Brothers
    The Stanley Brothers

    The Stanley Brothers - United States Bluegrass music musicians....
  • Roy Starkey
  • Ann Stevens
  • April Stevens
  • Redd Stewart
    Redd Stewart

    Redd Stewart born Henry Ellis Stewart was an American country music songwriter and recording artist born in Ashland City, Tennessee. While still a child, his family moved to Louisville, Kentucky....
  • Ocie Stockard
  • Billy Strickland
  • Swanee River Boys
  • Guerney Thomas
  • Jimmy Thomason
  • Jimmy Thompson
  • Cal Tinney
  • Lee Tully
  • Zeb Turner
  • Ruth Wallis
    Ruth Wallis

    Ruth Wallis was a novelty cabaret singer....
  • Billy Ward and the Dominoes
    Billy Ward and the Dominoes

    Billy Ward and His Dominoes were one of the top United States Rhythm and blues groups of the 1950s, and launched the careers of both Clyde McPhatter and Jackie Wilson....
  • Preston Ward
    Preston Ward

    Preston Meyer Ward was a lefty-hitting, righty-throwing first baseman/outfielder/third baseman, who played 9 seasons in the major leagues, playing in both the National League and American League Leagues....
  • Johnny "Guitar" Watson
  • Wanda Wayne
  • Skeeter Webb
  • Jimmy Weidener
  • Chuck Wells
  • Joe Wheeler
  • Otis Williams & the Charms
  • Luke Wills
  • Boots Woodall
    Boots Woodall

    Dennis "Boots" Woodall was a country musician in the late 40's and 50's, heading up a band that recorded for King, Bullet and Capitol labels, known as The Radio Wranglers....
  • Ernest Worley
  • George Wright
    George Wright

    George Wright may refer to:In politics, law and government:*George Wright , Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island...
  • Ruby Wright
    Ruby Wright

    Ruby Wright was an American singer and song writer. Though not very successful in the United States she had two hits in the United Kingdom. The first, Bimbo made number 7 in April 1954, whilst in May 1959, her version of Three Little Stars hit the charts at number 19 in the United Kingdom....
  • The York Brothers
    The York Brothers

    The York Brothers, Leslie and George were a country music duo from the 1930s through the 1940s. Born inLouisa, Kentucky, the York brothers made their recording debut in 1939 with songs like "Going Home", "Mountain Rosa Lee", "Lets not sleep Again", and "Speak to me little Darling"....


Labels associated with King Records

  • Deluxe Records
    Deluxe Records

    Deluxe Records is the record label off the german hip-hop artist Samy Deluxe, in Hamburg....
  • Federal Records
    Federal Records

    Federal Records was an United States record label founded in 1950 in music as a subsidiary of Syd Nathan's King Records and based at Cincinnati, Ohio....
  • Queen Records
  • Bethlehem Records
    Bethlehem Records

    Bethlehem Records was a record label founded by Gus Wild and bought by King Records . It is mainly remembered for its jazz releases. It was the record company under which Nina Simone's 1958 in music debut album came out ....


See also

  • List of record labels
    List of record labels

    This is a list of notable record labels.Owing to the large number of entries, the list has been divided by the first letter of the label's name, with labels starting with a number added to this page:...


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