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King Records was an American label founded in 1943 by Syd Nathan in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The label owned several divisions, including Federal Records, which launched the career of James Brown. It released original material until 1975.
Dec 30, 2022 · From its Cincinnati headquarters — “not contaminated by New York, Los Angeles or Chicago,” boasted its roly-poly, cigar-chomping founder, Syd Nathan — King Records recorded, produced and manufactured records featuring seminal acts, first in country music and then in what were called at the time “race records,” before Black musicians ...
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King Records was an important record label owned by Syd Nathan that was active from 1943-1968. The King Records studio building is located in the Evanston neighborhood of Cincinnati, OH. King Records recorded in the genres of hillbilly/Appalachian folk, bluegrass, country, jazz, doo-wop, R&B, funk, and soul.
Feb 3, 2022 · Over a dozen Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductees recorded at King Records during its 30-year history, including Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, Dave Bartholomew, Ja mes Brown and the Famous Flames, Bootsy Collins, the “5” Royales, Little Willie John, Fredd y King, and Professor Longhair.
- Laura Maidens
- 2018
From 1943 until 1971 Cincinnati's King Records revolutionized the process in which music was recorded, manufactured, distributed and promoted with 250 hit songs and more than 150 million records in everything from Jazz, Country, Bluegrass and Rhythm & Blues and Rock and Roll.
Prominent midwestern American record label that operated in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1943 until 1968. For the Japanese label of the same name, please see King Records. For the UK label of the same name, please see King Records (4).
