XYZ Records
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XYZ Records was a record label
founded by Frank Slay and Bob Crewe, mainly as an outlet for their own songs. The label opened in 1957
and was sporadically active till about 1960. Their only success was with The Rays
"Silhouettes" that was taken over for national distribution by Cameo Records in Philadelphia. The initial XYZ recordings were numbered 100 through to 106.
In late 1958 United Artists
financed the reactivation of XYZ and The Rays once again were in the studios re-recording one of their earlier couplings "Elevator Operator/Souvenir of Summertime" which was released as number 2001. Further recordings in this period were numbered 600 through to 611, all without much success.
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founded by Frank Slay and Bob Crewe, mainly as an outlet for their own songs. The label opened in 1957
1957 in music
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and was sporadically active till about 1960. Their only success was with The Rays
The Rays
The Rays was an American group formed in New York in 1955, and active in the 1950s. They first recorded for Chess Records. Their biggest hit single was "Silhouettes," a moderately-slow doo-wop piece of pop music that reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1957, released on XYZ Records...
"Silhouettes" that was taken over for national distribution by Cameo Records in Philadelphia. The initial XYZ recordings were numbered 100 through to 106.
In late 1958 United Artists
United Artists
United Artists Corporation is an American film studio. The original studio of that name was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks....
financed the reactivation of XYZ and The Rays once again were in the studios re-recording one of their earlier couplings "Elevator Operator/Souvenir of Summertime" which was released as number 2001. Further recordings in this period were numbered 600 through to 611, all without much success.