Roulette Records is a record label which was started late 1956 by George Goldner, Joe Kolsky, Morris Levy and Phil Khals, but the label was soon sold to Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore. Morris Levy was appointed director of the label. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... George Goldner (1918–1970) was a record company owner and promoter. ... Morris Levy was an American music industry executive, who ran Roulette Records. ... We dont have an article called Hugo Peretti Start this article Search for Hugo Peretti in. ... Luigi Creatore (born December 21, 1920 in the Hells Kitchen section of New York City) is a retired American songwriter and record producer. ...

Some years later they sold the label to Levy, to found Avco Records. Levy grouped Gee, Rama and Tico into Roulette Records. Some years later he also bought Gone Records and End Records from Goldner. In 1958 Roost Records was purchased. Avco Records was a record label started in the early 1960s by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore and Joseph Levine. ... Gee Records was acquired by Morris Levy and incorporated into Roulette Records. ... Rama Records was acquired by Morris Levy and incorporated into Roulette Records. ... Tico Records was a record label acquired by Morris Levy and incorporated into Roulette Records. ... Gone Records was acquired by Morris Levy and incorporated into Roulette Records. ... End Records was acquired by Morris Levy and incorporated into Roulette Records. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Roost Records (also known as Royal Roost Records) was a record label established in 1949, primarily to record jazz, taking its secondary name from the New York club with which it was associated. ...

During the 1960s, Roulette scored a number of hits connected to the Twist craze, most notably by releasing "Peppermint Twist" by Joey Dee and the Starliters. They also released a rare album of Twist songs by Bill Haley & His Comets, Twistin' Knights at the Roundtable. Another major 1960s hit for the label was "Mony Mony" by Tommy James and the Shondells. It was also on the Roulette label that in 1964 Stephen Stills and Richie Furay first recorded together while in the nine-member Au Go Go Singers, house band for the famous Cafe Au Go Go in NYC. The Twist was a rock and roll dance popular in the early 1960s and also the name of the song that originated it. ... Peppermint Twist is a song recorded and released by Joey Dee and the Starliters in 1961. ... The current version of the article or section reads like an advertisement. ... The original members of Bill Haley and His Comets, c. ... Tommy James and the Shondells was a rock and roll group, initially formed in 1964 as The Shondells. ...

Although founded by husband and wife Joe and Sylvia Robinson, Morris Levy would be the key financial founder for another project, the rap music label Sugar Hill Records in 1974. The rap label would create the first Top 40 hip hop single, "Rapper's Delight" (1979). In the early 1980s, the Robinsons bought Levy out. Joe Robinson is an English actor and stuntman born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 31 May 1927. ... Sylvia Robinson (born Sylvia Vanderpool, March 6, 1936 in New York) is a singer, musician and producer. ... Sugar Hill Records was the name of a rap music label that was founded in 1974 by husband and wife Joe and Sylvia Robinson with financial funding of Morris Levy, the owner of Roulette Records. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Hip hop music, also referred to as rap or rap music, is a style of popular music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... Rappers Delight is a 1979 single by American hip hop trio The Sugarhill Gang; it is widely acknowledged as the first hip hop hit single. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...

In 1981 Henry Stone turned to Morris to help salvage the demise of TK Records, so they setup Sunnyview Records under the Roulette umbrella. In 1986 Morris was exposed and convicted for extorting money from an FBI wired, small-time music wholesaler named John LaMonte. He fled the country while awaiting his appeal, and died shortly after. In 1989 Roulette Records was sold to a consortium off EMI and Rhino Records. Rhino has the rights to the pop/R&B catalogue in North America while EMI has the rights in the rest of the world. EMI has the global rights to the jazz catalogue and the Roulette name. Among its roster of stars were Count Basie and "Little" Esther Philips. 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... TK Records was one of the record labels started by Henry Stone. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The EMI Group is a major record label, based in Kensington in London, in the United Kingdom. ... Rhino Entertainment is a specialty record label originally known for releasing retrospectives of famous comedy performers, including Stan Freberg, Tom Lehrer, and Spike Jones. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... William Count Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, and bandleader. ... Esther Mae Jones (1935-1984) who performed as Little Esther and as Esther Phillips, was an American singer; she performed in the pop, country, jazz, and rhythm and blues fields, including soul music. ...

Today, EMI uses the Roulette name for the reissue of Roulette label material. In the United States, Blue Note Records handles the Roulette jazz catalogue for release on the Roulette Jazz label. Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff. ...

See also

• List of record labels