King Records



         


record labels, one of which is no longer in existence.

King Records was a United States based record label of the mid 20th century, specializing in country music, 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". King artists included Homer and Jethro, Grandpa Jones, and the Delmore Brothers.

King's corporate headquarters was in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company also had a "Race Records" (African American) label,

King Records is also the name of an unrelated record company in Japan originally founded in the years after World War II. Now one of Japan's leading record companies, the Japanese King Records is headquartered in Tokyo.

List of record labels





  View Live Article   This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License