Blue Thumb Records was an American record label founded in 1968 by Bob Krasnow, along with former A&M Records executives Tommy Lipuma and Don Graham. Krasnow had been in the record business for a number of years, working as a promotion man for King Records and also working for Buddah/Kama Sutra Records. Blue Thumb was originally intended to be the name of Captain Beefheart's band, but Bob didn't think the name was right for the group. However, he choose the name for his label, and the rest is history. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A&M Records is an American record label, owned and operated by Universal Music Group. ... U.S. King Records logo King Records was a United States based record label, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, started in 1943 by Syd Nathan, specializing in country music, at the time still known as Hillbilly music. King advertised If its a King, Its a Hillbilly -- If its... While working at Kama Sutra Records, Art Kass was unhappy with the distribution deal with MGM Records and started Buddah Records around 1967. ... Kama Sutra Records was started in 1964 as Kama Sutra Productions, a production house. ...

Some of the acts that appeared on the label include The Crusaders, Hugh Masakela, Captain Beefheart, Robbie Basho, Tom Rapp, Aynsley Dunbar's Retaliation, Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, Dave Mason, The Pointer Sisters, T-Rex (in its earlier incarnation as Tyrannosaurus Rex), Ike & Tina Turner, Love, Mark-Almond, and National Lampoon (on the Banana label imprint). The Crusaders are also an Amiga demo scene music group. ... Hugh Masekela (born Johannesburg, April 4, 1939) is a South African flugelhorn and cornet player. ... Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet on January 15, 1941 in Glendale, California) is a musician and visual artist, best known by the pseudonym Captain Beefheart. ... Robbie Basho (born August 31, 1940, died February 28, 1986) was one of the pioneers of the acoustic steel string guitar in America. ... Tom Rapp (born 1947) is an American composer and folk singer. ... Prolific English drummer Aynsley Dunbar (born on January 10, 1946, in Liverpool, England) has worked with some of the top names in rock and roll, including John Mayall, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, David Bowie, and Sammy Hagar. ... Dan Hicks (born December 9, 1941) is a musician whose style blends elements of folk and jazz (and bits of other genres, too). ... Dave Mason, born David Thomas Mason, May 10, [[1946], is a multi-talented musician -- singer, songwriter, and guitarist -- from Worcester, England, who first found fame with the rock band Traffic. ... The Pointer Sisters was an American vocal group and recording act that achieved great success during the 1970s and 1980s. ... T.Rex (originally known as Tyrannosaurus Rex, also occasionally spelled T Rex or T-Rex), were an English rock band fronted by Marc Bolan. ... Tina Turner on the cover of her 1991 album Simply the Best Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939) is an African American R&B, pop, rock and soul singer, Buddhist and occasional actress probably best known for her scorching performances with the Ike and Tina Turner... Love is infact Sophie Ollig and Sam Irving! remember that folks ... Jon Mark & Johnny Almond Mark–Almond was an English band of the late 1960s and early 1970s, who worked in the territory between rock and jazz. ... January 1973 cover of National Lampoon National Lampoon was an American humor magazine that began in 1970 as an offshoot of the Harvard Lampoon. ...

Blue Thumb started out distributing themselves, but went to Capitol/EMI for distribution during late 1970 and early 1971. Gulf and Western's Famous Music Group took over distribution from mid 1971 until late 1974, when the Famous Music record labels was sold off to ABC Records later in the year. ABC kept the Blue Thumb imprint going (primarily for reissues, and for albums by the Pointer Sisters and the Crusaders), right up until ABC was bought out by MCA Records during the first part of 1979. MCA then discontinued the Blue Thumb imprint altogether. Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, owned by EMI. // The Capitol Records company was founded by the songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942, with the financial help of movie producer Buddy DeSylva and the business acumen of Glenn Wallichs, (1910-1971) (owner of Music City, at the... The EMI Group (LSE: EMI) is a music company comprising the major record label, EMI Music, based in Brook Green in London, England, and EMI Music Publishing, based on Charing Cross Road, London. ... Gulf and Western Industries, Inc. ... Famous Music is a music publisher in the United States. ... ABC Records started in 1955 as ABC-Paramount Records, the recording arm of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres. ... The Music Corporation of America, commonly known as MCA, is a United States based corporation in the music business. ...

The label was revived in 1995 for non-jazz (usually blues and adult contemporary) releases. This remained so, even after the 1998 mega-merger with parent Universal Music Group and PolyGram and being put under the fold of the Verve Music Group. In early 2005, the Blue Thumb imprint was deactived and was replaced with Verve Forecast to handle such releases. Jazz is a musical art form that originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States at around the start of the 20th century, mostly popular in the 1920s. ... The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that typically follows a twelve-bar structure. ... Adult contemporary music, frequently abbreciated to just AC, is a type of radio format that plays mainstream and pop music, without hip-hop or rap since, as per the name, it is geared more towards adults than teens. ... Universal Music Group (UMG), formerly MCA Music Entertainment Group, is the largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry. ... PolyGram was the name from 1972 of the major label recording company started by Philips as a holding company for its music interests in 1945. ... Verve Records is an American Jazz record label, founded by Norman Granz in 1956, which absorbed the catalogues of his earlier labels: Norgran Records and Clef Records (founded 1953). ... Verve Records is an American Jazz record label, founded by Norman Granz in 1956, which absorbed the catalogues of his earlier labels: Norgran Records and Clef Records (founded 1953). ...

See also

• List of record labels
• Verve Records

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External links

• The Story of Blue Thumb Records
• Blue Thumb Discography