Record Cards
Description: Blue Goose Records was an American independent record label set up in the early 1970s by Nick Perls. While on Blue Goose's sister label, Yazoo Records, Perls compiled rare 78 rpm recordings from the 1920s by Charley Patton, Blind Willie McTell, Memphis Jug Band, Blind Blake, and Blind Lemon Jefferson. On Blue Goose Records he recorded not only 'rediscovered' black blues artists like Sam Chatmon, Son House, Yank Rachell, Shirley Griffith and Thomas Shaw, but also younger blues and jazz performers, including Larry Johnson, Jo Ann Kelly, Woody Mann, John Lewis, Roy Book Binder, R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders, Rory Block, Roger Hubbard, Alan Seidler, and Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts' member Graham Hine.
Description: Stax Records is an American record company, originally based in Memphis, Tennessee. Founded in 1957 as Satellite Records, the label changed its name to Stax Records in 1961. It also shared its operations with sister label Volt Records. Stax was influential in the creation of Southern soul and Memphis soul music. Stax also released gospel, funk, and blues recordings. Renowned for its output of blues music, the label was founded by two siblings and business partners, Jim Stewart and his sister Estelle Axton. It featured several popular ethnically integrated bands (including the label's house band, Booker T. & the M.G.'s) and a racially integrated team of staff and artists unprecedented in that time of racial strife.
Description: Roto Records was a record label based in Lincoln, Nebraska. The name "Roto" was chosen simply because "it goes round and round." The label's first releases were in 1956 by local artists Bobby Lowell and The Rock-a-Boogie Boys. The label continued releasing recordings by Lowell and other local artists through the mid-1980s.
Description: In 1967, 68-year-old New Zealand native Burt Munro made motorcycle history by setting a new official land speed record - 184.087 mph with unofficial top speed of 205.67 mph—when he raced his heavily modified 1920 Indian Scout Streamliner across the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, U.S.A.
Description: Man's Ruin Records was an independent record label founded in 1994. The label's eclectic catalog is vast, ranging from the relatively famous, to the lesser known. Man's Ruin prided itself in being the opposite of everything that was wrong with the record industry, keeping their operation very straight forward. They did not make signed contracts with the artists that they released, and profits were split 50-50 between band and label. Recordings were licensed for 2–5 years, and all rights were retained by the bands. The label became began to falter after a combination of events, including having outgrown its original distributor, and losing its lease at the height of the Bay Area Dot-Com boom. This combination led to the label's untimely demi
Description: The chain got to be a auxiliary of the Nehi Record Conveying Enterprise. founded Peaches in 1963 and went on to ended up president of Nehi. At its crest, Peaches had 50 stores in 22 cities with over 2,000 representatives. In June 1981, Peaches recorded a appeal for insolvency beneath Chapter 11 citing $20 million in obligation (identical to $161 in 2022) for its 35 stores coast to coast, owed to Citibank and six diverse record merchants.
