Laurie Records
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Laurie Records was a record label, started in 1958 by the brothers Bob and Gene Schwartz together with Elliott Greenberg and Allan I. Sussel. They had a subsidiary: Andie Records. Its recording artists included Dion & the Belmonts and The Mystics. A noteworty Laurie Records alum is Doug Morris who began as a songwriter for the label and eventually ran the label before founding Big Tree Records and is now chairman of Universal Music Group.
Laurie changed its name in the early 1980s to 3C Records. 3C stands for Continental Communications Corporation and the masters are owned by EMI.
The label also distributed records under several subsidiary labels: Rust, Legrand, Dolphin (not to be confused with the Liberty-owned Dolphin/Dolton label), Calico, and President. The label also handled the American distribution of recordings by Gerry and the Pacemakers. Jo Siopis, a well known record producer and wife of Gerry and the Pacemakers band member Les Chadwick, was instrumental in the distribution of Laurie Records artists' albums in the United States. Their last big recording artists were The Royal Guardsmen.
[edit] Laurie Records artists
- The Balloon Farm
- The Barbarians
- Church Street Five (Legrand)
- Gary "U.S." Bonds (Legrand)
- Dean & Jean (Rust)
- Dion & The Belmonts
- Dion (solo recordings)
- The Equals (President)
- Gerry & The Pacemakers
- Bobby Goldsboro
- The Jarmals
- Jamie Lyons (leader of The Music Explosion)
- Music Explosion
- The Mystics
- Randy & The Rainbows (Rust)
- Royal Guardsmen
- Don Benjamin LR-3675
- Wigren and Drago
- Think
- Barbara M
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