Tempo Records was a mid-20th century United States

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 based record label

Record label

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, headquartered in Hollywood, California. It was run by Irving B. Fogel. Tempo bridged the 78 rpm and 33-1/3 rpm

Gramophone record

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 generations, releasing discs in both formats. Artists who recorded for Tempo included jazz harpist/composer Robert Maxwell

Robert Maxwell (songwriter)

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, clarinet

Clarinet

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ist Sid Phillips

Sid Phillips (musician)

Isador Simon "Sid" Phillips was an English jazz clarinetist, bandleader, and arranger.Phillips learned violin and piano as a child, and played reeds in his teens as a member of his brother's European band. He got into the music business as a publisher and director for the Edison-Bell Gramophone...

, cornetist Doc Evans

Doc Evans

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, organist

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 Ben Light, Novachord

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 and organ virtuoso Lloyd Sloop, and violin

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ist Joe Venuti. This company worked with the Navy

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 in the early 1960s.

Tempo Records (Impact)

Tempo was also the name of a semi-major gospel record label that was best known in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were, for at least part of their existence, the contemporary arm of Impact Records, known formally as Tempo/Impact. It was based in Nashville, Tennessee

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, and for a very brief time also had a base in Shawnee Mission, Kansas

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. Some artists that appeared on the Tempo of Kansas City label included the Hawaiians, Sue Ellen Chenault, Otis Skillings and the Couriers.