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Smash Records is an American record label. It was a subsidiary of Mercury Records in the 1960s. Its recording artists included Bruce Channel, Roger Miller, The Left Banke and Jerry Lee Lewis. Image File history File links Smash_records. ... Image File history File links Smash_records. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Mercury Records was a record label founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1945 by Irving Green, Berle Adams and Arthur Talmadge. ... Bruce Channel (pronounced shuh-NELL) (born as Bruce McMeans, on November 28, 1940, in Jacksonville, Texas) was a one-hit wonder known for his 1962 number one hit, Hey! Baby. Channel originally performed on the Louisiana Hayride radio show, and then joined up with harmonica-player Delbert McClinton singing country... A section of the album jacket for Golden Hits. ... The Left Banke was an American 1960s pop-music group which produced two hit singles, Walk Away Renee and Pretty Ballerina. ... Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935), also known by the nickname The Killer, is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter, and pianist. ...

A dispute with King Records led James Brown to release all of his band's instrumental recordings between 1964 and 1967 on Smash. Smash also released Brown's breakthrough 1964 single "Out of Sight."^[1] 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... Link title James Joseph Brown, Jr. ... An instrumental is, in contrast to a song, a musical composition or piece without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments. ... See also: 1963 in music, other events of 1964, 1965 in music, 1960s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 1 - Top of the Pops premieres on BBC television. ... See also: 1966 in music, other events of 1967, 1968 in music, 1960s in music and the list of years in music 1967 was an important year for psychedelic music, with releases from the Beatles Sgt. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ...

Smash shared the numbering system for their singles with other labels that they distributed. The most important of these was Fontana Records. Fontana Records was a record label active in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1960s, as a subsiduary of the Dutch Phillips company. ...

Polygram revived Smash as an R&B/dance label for a short time in the late 80s. 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. ... Rhythm and blues (or R & B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ... Dance music is a style of popular music commonly played in dance music nightclubs, radio stations and shows and raves. ...

See also

• List of record labels

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Notes

1. ^ James Brown Biography. allmusic. Retrieved on 2006-11-22.

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External links

• A discography of Smash albums
• for a singles discography see www.globaldogproductions.com