Warwick Records was a record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 established in 1959

1959 in music

-Events:*January 5 – The first sessions for Ella Fitzgerald's George and Ira Gershwin Songbook are held.*January 12 – Tamla Records is founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit, Michigan....

 with Morty Craft as president. Early labels were maroon with silver print and then became red with black print. The first 150 or so releases bore the text "A Division of United Telefilm Records

United Telefilm Records

United Telefilm Records was a record label.It was the mother label of Warwick Records....

, Inc" until somewhere in 1961 this changed to show the company as part of Seven-Arts Record Productions.

Best selling artists on the label were Johnny and the Hurricanes

Johnny and the Hurricanes

Johnny and the Hurricanes was a rock and roll band that began as The Orbits in Toledo, Ohio in 1957. Led by saxophonist Johnny Paris , they were school friends who played on a few recordings behind Mack Vickery, a local rockabilly singer.-Career:They signed with Harry Balk and Irving Micahnik of...

 ("Red River Rock", "Reveille Rock", "Beatnik Fly", etc.), the String-A-Longs

The String-A-Longs

The String-A-Longs were an instrumental group from Plainview, Texas, produced by Norman Petty on Warwick Records. They consisted of Richard Stephens, lead guitar, Keith McCormack and Jimmy Torres, rhythm guitars, Aubrey de Cordova, bass guitar and Don Allen, drums.Their biggest hit single was...

 ("Wheels

Wheels (The String-A-Longs song)

Wheels is The String-A-Longs' biggest hit single , in 1961 . The tune peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the number 8 single of 1961 according to Billboard. The track reached number 8 in the UK Singles Chart...

", "Brass Buttons"), the Raging Storms  ("The Dribble Twist") and the Fireballs

The Fireballs

The Fireballs, sometimes billed as Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs, is an American rock and roll group, particularly popular at the end of the 1950s and in the early 1960s...

 ("Quite A Party"). Warwick filed for bankruptcy in 1962

1962 in music

-Events:*January 1 – The Beatles and Brian Poole and the Tremeloes both audition at Decca Records, a company which has the option of signing one group only...

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