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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Starday-King Sound Studios was a recording studio in the Madison neighborhood in northeast Nashville, Tennessee. Built in 1960, Starday Sound once was...
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music 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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Gusto owns include King Records (except for recordings by James Brown), Starday, Scepter (except for recordings by Dionne Warwick, and the pre-RCA recordings...
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Blue (Bill Mack song) (category Starday Records singles)
Coral and Decca Records throughout the 1950s) signed to Starday in 1965. Don Pierce, Starday president and co-founder who had worked with Mack to record...
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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...
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George Jones (category Starday Records artists)
February on Starday Records. This began Jones's association with producer and mentor H.W. "Pappy" Daily. The song was cut in the living room of Starday Records'...
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Nathan died in 1968, King was acquired by Hal Neely's Starday Records and restarted as Starday-King Records. The songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and...
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Cowboy Copas (category Starday Records artists)
one 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...
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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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Tony Rice: (guitar Lead Vocals) & Larry Rice: (Mandolin)) (recorded by Starday, April 1973; released in 1978 by Gusto GT-0010) 1975: J. D. Crowe & The...
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their name: Nashville Records, an imprint of Starday Records operational in the 1960s and 1970s after Starday dissolved its partnership with Mercury Records...
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Glen Campbell (category Starday Records artists)
Glen Travis Campbell (April 22, 1936 – August 8, 2017) was an American country singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actor. He was best known for a series...
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"Pappy" Daily from Houston. Daily was promotion director for Mercury and Starday Records and signed Richardson to Mercury. Richardson's first single, "Beggar...
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country music and Western swing. They recorded with producer Jim Beck for Starday Records but their early singles, including "Who Put the Turtle in Myrtle’s...
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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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Eddie Noack (category Starday Records artists)
(The band later 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...
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He recorded his biggest hit "Blackland Farmer" for Starday in 1956. In 1959 he signed with Starday Records and released several singles which became hits...
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Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith (category Starday Records artists)
Crossroads Quartet 1962 (Starday) Mister Guitar 1962 (Starday) Arthur Smith: In Person 1963 (Starday SLP 241) Goes to Town 1963 (Starday) Arthur Smith and Voices...
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Buck Owens (category Starday Records artists)
Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens Jr. (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and band leader. He was the lead singer for...
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Bill Clifton (category Starday Records artists)
Mountain Folk Songs – Starday Records (1960) Carter Family Memorial Album – Starday Records (1961) Bluegrass Sound Of – Starday Records (1962) Soldier...
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Dottie West (category Starday Records artists)
television. Her aspirations to write and record country led to West getting a Starday Records recording contract in 1959. West and her family then moved to Nashville...
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record producer and entrepreneur who cofounded the Texas-based record label Starday Records. Daily worked with many of the well-known artists in country music...
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Commerce Commission and "little white pills" as a reference to amphetamines. Starday Records in Nashville followed up on Dudley's initial success with the release...
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vinyl single)". Starday Records. 45-160. Jones, George (May 1955). ""Hold Everything"/"What's Wrong with You" (7" vinyl single)". Starday Records. 45-188...
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Rose Lee Maphis (section Starday Records)
Rose Lee Maphis (born Doris Helen Schetrompf; December 29, 1922 – October 26, 2021) was an American country singer and musician. She performed as a harmony...
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Why Baby Why (category Starday Records singles)
originally recorded by George Jones. Released in late 1955 on Starday Records and produced by Starday co-founder and Jones' manager Pappy Daily, it peaked at...
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Occupation Musician Instrument(s) Vocals, mandolin, dobro, guitar Years active 1957–1996 Labels Starday, Sugar Hill Records, Rebel Records, Folkways, Mercury...
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Bill Browning (section Starday Records)
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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