Cub Records

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Cub Records was an American record label that was active between 1958 and 1968.

history


First success:
The Impalas with "Sorry"

New start in 1967
with number 9150

In March 1958, the New York entertainment company Loews Incorporated founded the record label Orbit Records as a subsidiary of the record company MGM Records . Shortly after it was founded, it was discovered that there were already three record companies with the same name in the USA. Then the label was renamed Cub Records on March 31st. The three singles previously published under Orbit have been relabeled. Until 1960, all singles produced were labeled "Cub Records - A product of Loew's Incorporated". Like MGM, Cub was supposed to publish pop music and had numerous pop music groups in its program from the start. Already in the first year of production 1958 singles with six different groups were released. Eleven singles were produced with the Doo-Wop group The Wanderers, putting them at the top of Cub productions. The most successful group at Cub were the Impalas, who also made doo-wop music. With the title Sorry they reached number two in the Hot 100 of the US music magazine Billbord in the spring of 1959 .

The most successful performer was rhythm and blues singer Jimmy Jones , who had a global success with Handy Man and was placed in the Hot 100 four times by 1961. His 1961 track I Told You So was the last of six Cub songs to hit the US charts. Several performers released singles with Cub at the beginning of their careers, such as B. Al Martino , Wilson Pickett or Johnny Rivers . Cub has also licensed several successful British performers, such as Russ Conway and Adam Faith . In addition to the singles, Cub produced eight music albums in the first two years of its existence , including with the Impalas and Russ Conway.

In March 1960, the company imprint was changed on the record labels, it now appeared the wording "A Product of MGM Records - A division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc." In 1963 Cub stopped its production after 127 singles (catalog number 9127) and only returned back on the market in October 1967 with catalog number 9150 and a redesigned plate label. The revival did not bring the success back, so that Cub Records finally ceased operations in July 1968 after the single catalog number 9162 and a ninth album. In the eight years of production, 141 singles and nine albums were released with 105 artists.

Most singles performers

Title on the Billboard Hot 100

entry title Performers Catalog no. space
March 16, 1959 Sorry The Impalas 9022 02
06/22/1959 Oh what a fool The Impalas 9022 86
12/28/1959 Handy Man Jimmy Jones 9049 02
04/18/1960 Good timin ' Jimmy Jones 9067 03
07/11/1960 That's when I cried Jimmy Jones 9072 83
03/27/1961 I told you so Jimmy Jones 9072 85

Music albums


"Take Off in Sound"
album with Marla Smith
title Interpreter Catalog no. published
Take off in sound Marla Smith 8001 001958
Mamie Webster Sings Toilet Cellphone Mamie Webster 8002 01/1959
The Impalas The Impalas 8003 07/1959
Big Banjo Band Bob Domenick 8004 07/1959
Happy Honky Tonk Piano Russ Conway 8005 10/1959
Spirituals Soul Seekers 8006 11/1959
Mississippi Melody Knightsbridge Orchestra 8007 11/1959
Fancy Fiddlin 'Country Style Howdy Forrester 8008 12/1959
Groovin 'Strings and Things The nitty gritty 80000 06/1968

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