• Starday Records was an American record label producing traditional country music during the 1950s and 1960s. The label began in 1952 in Beaumont, Texas...
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    with Tammy Wynette). In 1956, Jones's debut studio LP was issued on Starday Records titled, Grand Ole Opry's New Star. The label only issued one studio...
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    country music record label Starday Records in January 1957. In July 1958, the Mercury/Starday joint venture was dissolved, and Starday record producer Shelby...
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  • recordings. The catalogues that Gusto owns include King Records (except for recordings by James Brown), Starday, Scepter (except for recordings by Dionne Warwick...
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  • Records (King's budget album label) Bethlehem Records De Luxe Records Federal Records Festival Records Queen Records Starday Records List of record labels...
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    the existing building. Many of Starday Records' top acts, including Red Sovine and Cowboy Copas, recorded hits at Starday Sound, but the studio hosted more...
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    George Jones (category Starday Records artists)
    1954. His first record, the self-penned "No Money in This Deal", was recorded on January 19 and was released in February on Starday Records. This began Jones's...
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    for three months. Other major hits during his successful period with Starday Records in the early 1960s, including "Flat Top" and a remake of "Signed, Sealed...
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    Minnie Pearl (category Starday Records artists)
    and Ernest Tubb. In the 1960s, she moved to Starday Records. At age 54, she recorded a top-10 hit for Starday, "Giddyup Go – Answer", a response to Red...
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    Roger Miller (category Starday Records artists)
    met George Jones, who introduced him to music executives from the Starday Records label who scheduled an audition. Impressed, the executives set up a...
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  • the Echo Valley Boys. Browning left Island Records at the end of 1958 for Starday Records where he recorded four album sides. Browning returned to truck...
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    a joint venture with Starday Records specifically for releasing artists performing country music. Mercury bought out Starday's half in 1958. In 1997...
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    The Oak Ridge Boys (category Starday Records artists)
    baritone Ron Page, and bass Herman Harper. They recorded an album on the Checker Records label, one on Starday, and three on Skylite. In 1961, Gatlin changed...
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  • Eddie Noack (category Starday Records artists)
    recorded Noack's song "We Smiled" as a B-side in 1956 for Starday.) "Too Hot To Handle", his own composition, was leased by Four Star to TNT Records,...
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    Buck Owens (category Starday Records artists)
    fiddle and retained pedal steel guitar into the 1970s, their sound on records and onstage was always more stripped-down and elemental. The band's signature...
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    Blue (Bill Mack song) (category Starday Records singles)
    Decca Records throughout the 1950s) signed to Starday in 1965. Don Pierce, Starday president and co-founder who had worked with Mack to record "Blue"...
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  • still coming in, Dick went back to work, this time as a record promoter for Starday Records, a record label that was based in Nashville, Tennessee. Dick married...
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    Dottie West (category Starday Records artists)
    regional television. Her aspirations to write and record country led to West getting a Starday Records recording contract in 1959. West and her family then...
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  • working on the radio in Texas, he contacted Starday Records, sending the tapes over to the label. Starday Records pressed for Nelson 500 copies of the single...
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    Jimmy Dean (category Starday Records artists)
    credited to "C. Graves" on the Quality label). Dean signed with Columbia Records in 1957. He had minor pop hits, such as "Little Sandy Sleighfoot" (a Christmas...
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  • Favorites (Starday Records) 1963: Bluegrass Spectacular (Starday Records) 1965: Travel On (Starday Records) 1972: Ola Belle Reed (Rounder Records) 1973: Country...
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    Glen Campbell (category Starday Records artists)
    albums in a career that spanned five decades, selling over 45 million records worldwide, including twelve gold albums, four platinum albums, and one...
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  • Agenant, Willem (1996). Columbia 78 Rpm Record Listing, 20001 Thru 21571, Plus OKeh Records 18001 Thru 18059. Joyce Record Club. p. 59. Retrieved October 29...
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  • David "Stringbean" Akeman (category Starday Records artists)
    Akeman's inspiration. Akeman did not record as a solo artist until the early 1960s, when he was signed by the Starday label. Akeman remained a celebrated...
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  • New Grass Revival (category Starday Records artists)
    debut album, The Arrival of the New Grass Revival, later in 1972 on Starday Records. The New Grass Revival bucked tradition, with long hair, informal clothing...
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  • King Records. In 1962, Bethlehem Records was sold and absorbed by King Records. After Syd Nathan died in 1968, King was acquired by Starday Records and...
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  • Red Sovine (category Starday Records artists)
    After recording close to 50 sides with Decca by 1959, Sovine signed to Starday Records and began touring the club circuit as a solo act. That same year, Sovine...
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  • Lonzo and Oscar (category Starday Records artists)
    Records in the late 1950s through the early 1960s. The songs which Starday Records released by Melba Montgomery in the 1960s came from Nugget Records...
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  • (Canaan Records) 1977: 16 All-Time Favorites (Starday Records) 1983: Come into the Light (Calvary) 1985: The Old Rugged Cross (Golden Circle Records) 2000:...
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  • Pappy Daily (category Record producers from Texas)
    was an American country music record producer and entrepreneur who cofounded the Texas-based record label Starday Records. Daily worked with many of the...
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