Regal Records (1949)
Regal Records was an American blues and rhythm & blues label based in Linden, New Jersey .
Regal Records was founded in 1949 by David and Jules Braun and Fred Mendelsohn. The first recording session in September 1949 appeared under # 3231 - Mistreated Blues by Blazer Boy Locks . 1950 the label took on the distribution of Royal Roost Records , a small New York jazz label; It also took over the master tapes for the Detroit label Sensation. In 1951, Regal founded the country sub-label RFD Records , which was discontinued that same year. In November 1951, the owners of Regal announced the end of the label, whose contract artists Paul Gayten , Annie Laurie , Sammy Cotten , Larry Darnell and Titus Turner switched to Okeh Records . Regal's master tapes were then acquired by King Records , which Syd Nathan owned. The Braun brothers eventually returned to DeLuxe Records, which they co-founded and which was now owned by Syd Nathan.
Other artists under contract with Regal included Roosevelt Sykes , Chubby Newsome , Blind Willie McTell , Milt Larkin , Sunnyland Slim and Savannah Churchill .
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- ↑ The Braun brothers founded the Deluxe Records label in early 1944, on which u. a. Billy Eckstine recordings released and sold to King Records before Regal was founded; see. Lou Gouden: Reggae Heritage: Jamaica's Music History, Culture & Politic , p. 145.