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Sundazed Records is a 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...
 based in Coxsackie
Coxsackie

Coxsackie may refer to:* Coxsackie , New York* Coxsackie , New York* Coxsackie virus -- any of a group of 23 Coxsackie A viruses and 6 Coxsackie B viruses....
, in the Catskills of New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
. It specializes in obscure and rare recordings from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Label founders Bob Irwin and his wife Mary started the label in 1989. Irwin's skill at restoring old vinyl records for the (then new) CD format, attracted the attention of major labels, who increasingly solicited him to help them re-issue material from their back catalogues.






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Sundazed Records is a 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...
 based in Coxsackie
Coxsackie

Coxsackie may refer to:* Coxsackie , New York* Coxsackie , New York* Coxsackie virus -- any of a group of 23 Coxsackie A viruses and 6 Coxsackie B viruses....
, in the Catskills of New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
. It specializes in obscure and rare recordings from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Label founders Bob Irwin and his wife Mary started the label in 1989. Irwin's skill at restoring old vinyl records for the (then new) CD format, attracted the attention of major labels, who increasingly solicited him to help them re-issue material from their back catalogues. He helped Sony Music release their archival Legacy Records label. Later, his restoration work included early material by the likes of Bob Dylan, Nancy Sinatra
Nancy Sinatra

Nancy Sandra Sinatra is an United States singer and actor. She is the daughter of singer/actor Frank Sinatra from his first wife, Nancy Barbato, and remains known for her 1966 signature song "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"....
, and The Byrds
The Byrds

The Byrds were an American Rock music band. Formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964, The Byrds underwent several lineup changes, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group's disbandment in 1973....
.

The first Sundazed releases were 60's recordings by The Knickerbockers
The Knickerbockers

The Knickerbockers were an American pop/rock music group best remembered for their 1965 hit, "Lies." The band was formed in 1962 in Bergenfield, New Jersey by brothers Beau Charles and John Charles with fluctuating personnel until 1964, when they met Buddy Randell ....
 and The Five Americans, and heavily reflected Irwin's personal preference for garage rock
Garage rock

Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 in music to 1967 in music. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name....
 and surf music
Surf music

Surf music is a genre of popular music associated with surf culture, particularly Orange County, California and other areas of Southern California....
. Later releases included the albums of The Turtles
The Turtles

The Turtles are an United States Pop music and folk rock band led by vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, who became notable for numerous Top 40 hits beginning with their cover version of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe" , and "Happy Together " ....
, Liverpool Five
Liverpool Five

The Liverpool Five were a rock and roll quintet that was part of the British Invasion of the 1960s. The five members of the band came to the United States by way of Japan in 1965....
, and Jan and Dean
Jan and Dean

Jan and Dean were a rock and roll duet , popular from the late 1950s through the mid 1960s, consisting of William Jan Berry and Dean Ormsby Torrence ....
's long-lost album Save for a Rainy Day. The company recently reissued the complete catalog of LP
LP album

Long play record albums are 33? rpm Polyvinyl chloride Gramophone records , generally either 10 or 12 inches in diameter. They were first introduced in 1948, and served as a primary release format for Sound recording and reproduction until the compact disc began to significantly displace them by 1988, and eventually leaving the mainstr...
s by New Orleans funk
Funk

Funk is an United States Music genre that originated in the mid- to late-1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music....
 pioneers The Meters
The Meters

The Meters were an United States funk band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Meters performed and recorded their music from the late 1960s until 1977....
 on vinyl and CD.

In 2000 Sundazed had a staff of 15 and two mixing studios, including a vintage
Vintage

Vintage, in wine-making, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product. A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year....
 audio equipment
Audio equipment

A piece of audio equipment is any device designed principally to reproduce, record or process sound. This includes microphones, receiver s, AV Receivers, CD players, tape recorders, amplifiers, mixing consoles, effects units and loudspeakers....
 collection.

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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