Rite Record Productions
| Rite Record Productions, Inc. | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Recording company |
| founding | 1950 |
| resolution | 1985 |
| Seat | Cincinnati , Ohio |
| management | Carl Burckhardt |
| Branch | entertainment |
Rite Record Productions, Inc. was an American recording company based in Cincinnati , Ohio . The company owned a studio, a press shop, various record labels and ran a custom label program from 1955 to 1985 .
history
Rite Record Productions was founded in 1950 by entrepreneur Carl Burckhardt Gateway Records, Inc. founded and later in Rite Record Production, Inc. renamed. The company's headquarters were at 9745 Lockland Road, Cincinnati. It initially focused less on publishing music than on making it.
Around 1950 Burckhardt founded the Kentucky Records label , which became a subsidiary of Rite. Other record labels followed, such as Gateway Records and Big 4 Hits Records , all of which were used as budget labels . Burckhardt's goal was to cover current hits from his own musicians who are only known regionally and to offer them on the market for less money in order to appeal to financially weaker customers. The plates, which appeared under these different label names, were recorded by Rite in the Rite Studio, processed and manufactured in its own press shop. Rite himself never achieved hits with it.
In 1955, Rite introduced a program to manufacture custom labels . Burckhardt was aware that King Records dominated this emerging market in Cincinnati at the time, so he got into this business as well. The program meant that anyone - musicians or record companies - could commission Rite to make records. These plates were then provided with a separate matrix number and delivered in various quantities. The so-called first “custom pressing” was Let 'Em Roll / Happy Horns by Tommy Wills & his Club Miami Band on the Club Miami Records label (Club Miami # 501).
1957/1958 Rite sold his budget labels to a company in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , which continued the labels for a while. In the period that followed, recordings that could only be found on the various Rite labels appeared on other budget labels as well. In 1959, Rite was sued under the budget label business principle and the company was fined for boot leggings .
From 1958 the custom service developed into a success, because - influenced by Elvis Presley's triumphant advance - every young person wanted to record records and the market expanded. This program continued until 1985, after which Rite stopped all production. By 1985 a total of 21,423 records had been produced in the custom program.