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 chose the Blue Thumb name for the label, and the rest is history. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... A&M Records is a record label formed in 1962 by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss. ... King Records is the name of at least two different record labels. ... 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 recorded for the label include The Crusaders, Hugh Masakela, Captain Beefheart, Aynsley Dunbar, Dave Mason, The Pointer Sisters, T-Rex, Ike & Tina Turner, Love, National Lampoon, and Mark Almond. 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 in a 1982 promotional photo. ... 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. ... Dave Mason (born May 10, 1946) is a musician from Birmingham, England who found fame with rock band Traffic. ... The Pointer Sisters was an American vocal group and recording act that achieved great success during the 1970s and 1980s. ... Binomial name Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn, 1905 For the rock group Tyrannosaurus Rex, see T. Rex (band). ... 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 was an American rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... National Lampoon is a 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 1974, when Famous Music was sold off to ABC Records later in the year. ABC kept the Blue Thumb imprint going (primarily for reissues, Pointer Sisters, and Crusaders albums), 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. // History 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 EMI Group is a major record label, based in Kensington in London, in the United Kingdom. ... Gulf and Western Industries, Inc. ... 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. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...

The label was revived in 1995 for non-jazz (usually blues & 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. But in early 2005, the Blue Thumb imprint was deactived & was replaced with Verve Forecast to handle such releases. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form originating around the early 1920s in New Orleans, rooted in Western music technique and theory, and is marked by the profound cultural contributions of African Americans. ... The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on a pentatonic scale and a characteristic twelve-bar chord progression. ... 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. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Universal Music Group (UMG), formerly MCA Music Entertainment (see Music Corporation of America), is the largest major label in the record 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). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also

• List of record labels
• Verve Records
• http://www.billdeyoung.com/bluethumb.htm