Roulette Records


Roulette Records was an American record company and label founded in 1957 by George Goldner, Joe Kolsky, Morris Levy and Phil Kahl, with creative control given to producers and songwriters Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore. Levy was appointed director.
The label had known ties to New York City mobsters. Levy ran the label with an iron fist. In 1958 Roost Records was purchased. Goldner subsequently bowed out of his partnership interest in Roulette and, to cover his gambling debts, sold his record labels Tico, Rama, Gee and — years later — End and Gone to Levy, who grouped them into Roulette. Peretti and Creatore later left Roulette and worked as freelance producers for RCA Records throughout the 1960s. They co-founded Avco Records in 1969. In 1971 Roulette took over the catalog of Jubilee Records.

History

During the late 1950s, Roulette scored hits by Buddy Knox, Jimmy Bowen, The Playmates, Jimmie Rodgers, Ronnie Hawkins and The Delicates as well as releasing albums by Pearl Bailey, Dinah Washington and Count Basie.
During the early 1960s, Roulette issued a number of hits connected to the twist dance craze, most notably "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. Other major 1960s hits for the label include "Two Faces Have I" by Lou Christie. A group of United States Marines called The Essex recorded the hit "Easier Said Than Done" while based at Camp Lejeune, NC, in 1963. In 1964, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay first recorded together on Roulette while in the nine-member Au Go Go Singers, the house band for the Cafe Au Go Go in New York City.
In the UK Roulette's records were issued on the EMI Columbia label. In April 1965 the UK music magazine NME reported that Roulette had agreed to offer a sponsored show to the UK pirate radio radio station Radio Caroline. The hour-long show, recorded in the US by disc jockey Jack Spector, was to be broadcast five evenings a week. The contract covered a two-year period and was worth over £10,000 to the station.
According to Tommy James of Tommy James and the Shondells, whose "Hanky Panky", "I Think We're Alone Now", "Mirage", "Mony Mony", "Crimson and Clover" and many others were released during his time at the label, Roulette was a front business for the Genovese crime family. James estimates that the label kept $30 million-$40 million of the group's royalties but afforded it total artistic freedom, whereas another label would have tampered with its formula and might have dropped the group early on. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Roulette was one of the industry's major distributors, handling records for many leading labels.
Levy was the key financial backer for the rap music label Sugar Hill Records, which was founded in 1974 by the husband-and-wife team Joe and Sylvia Robinson. Sugar Hill released the first Top 40 rap single, "Rapper's Delight", in 1979. In the early 1980s, the Robinsons bought Levy out.
In 1981, Henry Stone turned to Levy to help prevent the demise of TK Records, so they set up Sunnyview Records under the Roulette umbrella. In 1986, Levy was arrested, tried and convicted for extorting money from an FBI informant, John LaMonte, but he died in Ghent, New York, before serving any time in prison. In 1989, Roulette Records was sold to a consortium of EMI and Rhino Records, the latter of which was later acquired by Warner Music Group. Rhino would control Roulette’s pop catalogue in the USA, Canada and Mexico, while EMI acquired Roulette’s jazz catalogue worldwide, plus the international distribution of Roulette’s pop catalogue. As of 2013, Warner Music Group now has worldwide rights to the Roulette catalogue as a result of acquiring EMI’s Parlophone label.
Following the acquisition, Rhino and EMI began issuing large royalty checks to former Roulette artists. Tommy James recalled that his checks were in amounts in six or seven digits. Roulette was notorious for not paying royalties to its artists, who had to rely on concerts and personal appearances for their income.
Until 2013, EMI used the Roulette name for the reissue of old Roulette-label material. In the US, Blue Note Records handled the Roulette jazz catalogue for release on the Roulette Jazz label until 2013. It was one of the units of Parlophone that Universal Music was required to sell to Warner Music Group to comply with international regulators.

Roulette Records artists

25000 Popular Series

Roulette Records 25000 Popular Series of LP records began in 1957 and ran until 1968.
CatalogAlbumArtistNotes
25001Calypso with the Playmates
25002Barrelhouse
25003Buddy Knox
25004Jimmy Bowen
25005Italy
25006Charleston
25007Memories of Hal Kemp Orchestra
25008Showplace of the NationRadio City Music Hall Orchestra
25009Tyree Glenn at the Embers
25010Dorothy Donegan at the Embers
25011Polka
25012Pearl Bailey A Broad
25013Frankie Lymon at the London Palladium
25014Kay Martin and Her Bodyguards
25015DixiecatsJazz All Stars
25016Pearl Bailey Sings for Adults Only
25017Copa Girl
25018Songs My Mother Loved
25019Hi-Fi Harmonica
25020Jimmie Rodgers
25021Pajama PartyVarious Artists
25022Accordion in Hi-Fi
25023Musical Themes of Hollywood U.S.A. & Symphony of the Air
25024Let's Dance and Orchestra
25025Jamaica
25026The Long Hot Summer
25027Guy Pastor and His Dad and Orchestra
25028Italy Revisited with the Tony Dannon Orchestra
25029Curtain Going UpOriginal Dukes of Dixieland
25030Gospel SongsStamps-Baxter Quartet
25031Let's Do the Polka Orchestra
25032Oriental Delight Sextet
25033The Number One Ballads
25034David Niven Reads the World's Most Famous Love Letters
25035Cowboy & The Riders of the Purple Sage
25036Rock 'n Roll
25037St. Louis Blues
25038Dixieland at Carnegie HallVarious Artists
25039Coffee, Cigarettes and Memories
25040Emil Coleman at the Waldorf Astoria
25041With Love
25042Jimmie Rodgers Sings Folk Songs
25043At Play with the Playmates
25044When Good Fellows Get TogetherHugo & Luigi with Their Family Singers
25045Noro Morales at the Harvest Moon Ball
25046Song Stylist Extraordinaire
25047On My Way to Heaven & Wayfarers
25048Buddy Knox and Jimmy Bowen/Jimmy BowenSplit album
25049Greece Orchestra
25050Tyree Glenn at the Roundtable
25051Italia con Pier Angeli
25052A Long, Long Kiss
25053Steve Allen at the Roundtable
25054Love Songs a LaRosa
25055La Guitarra: The Genius of Rolando Valdes-Blain
25056Hello Nice People Orchestra
25057His Golden Year
25058Swingin' My Way Through College Orchestra
25059Rock and Roll Record HopVarious Artists
25060At Home with the Barry Sisters
25061Emotions of Jose Duval
25062Cha Cha Italiana
25063Pearl Bailey Sings Porgy and Bess and Other Gershwin Melodies
25064Swingin' Marchin' Whistlin and his Golden Echo Music
25065Lennie Hayton Introduces Scandinavian Suite No. 1
25066Hawaiian Luau Orchestra
25067Woody Herman Sextet at the Roundtable Sextet
25068Cuttin' Capers
25069Honky Tonk Piano
25070Dixieland in High Society and the Knights of the Roundtable
25071TV Favorites Volume 1
25072Basie Swings, Bennett Sings and Tony Bennett
25073Themes from the Hip Orchestra
25074Folk Songs of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee and Brownie McGhee
25075Try a Little Tenderness with Strings
25076Turk Murphy and His Jazz Band at the Roundtable and His Jazz Band
25077Shy
25078Ronnie Hawkins
25079It Seems Like Only Yesterday Orchestra
25080Dixieland at the RoundtableSalt City Six
25081Twilight on the Trail
25082Joe Reisman Salutes the All-Time Instrumental Favorites
25083On the Sunny Side
25084Broadway Show Stoppers
25085Go Ahead & Rock Rock Rock Orchestra featuring Ella Johnson
25086Shepherd and His Flock Orchestra
25087Happy Organ
25088Music for Wise Guys
25089Great American Waltzes
25090Born to Be Blue
25091Jack Teagarden at the Roundtable
25092Relax'n with Chico Randall
25093Rock n' Roll BandstandVarious Artists
25094Ev'ry Hour, Ev'ry Day
25095It's Christmas Once Again
25096Memorie di Roma
25097Christmas CarolsSt. Patrick's Cathedral Choir
25098On the Beach Musical Score from the film.
25099Sounds in the Night
25100Marc of Fredericks and Orchestra
25101More Songs for Adults Only
25102Mr. Dynamo
25103When the Spirit Moves You
25104Once More with Feeling
25105Polka! Polka! Polka!
25106Original Hit RecordsVarious Artists
25107A Thousand Miles Away
25108Salute Italia
25109Woo Hoo
25110On Stage
25111Island Paradise Orchestra
25112Dixieland at the Roundtable
25113Smooth and Rocky with The Al Cohn Orchestra
25114Instrumental Imports
25115Let's Have a Ball
25116Songs of the Bad Old Days
25117Accent Italino
25118Las Vegas Late Show Quartet
25119Jazz Maverick
25120The Folk Ballads of Ronnie Hawkins
25121Folk Scene U.S.A.
25122Neapolitan MemoriesDoreen
25123Jimmy Durante at the Copacabana
25124Ivory and Bone
25125Naughty But Nice
25126Italiano U.S.A.
25127New Sensations in Sound
25128At Home with Jimmie Rodgers: An Evening of Folk Songs
25129Swings for Dancers
25130Sing Along with Emmett Kelly
25131Banjo & Calls Sing AlongVarious Artists
25132Civil War Almanac Volume 1: The Yankees
25133Civil War Almanac Volume 2: The Rebels
25134Italy Volume 2
25135Voice of Hawaii
25136Side by Side
25137Ronnie Hawkins Sings the Songs of Hank Williams
25138Tyree Glenn at London House in Chicago
25139Wait for Me
25140In Love for the Very First Time
25141It's Happy Polka Time & His Polka Poppers
25142St. Patrick's Cathedral Choir Sings Christmas SongsSt. Patrick's Cathedral Choir
25143You Talk Too Much
25144The Best of Pearl Bailey
25145Fidoodlin
25146Grimm's Hip Fairy Tales
25148Swing Folksongs
25149That's Paris Orchestra
25150The Folk Song World of Jimmie Rodgers
25151Melodie O'Italia
25152Dream Bar
25153Return to Rome
25154It Happened One Night
25155Pearl Bailey Sings Songs of Harold Arlen
25156We Belong Together
25157Shalom
25159Murray the "K's" Sing Along with the Original Golden Gassers!Various Artists
25160The Best of Jimmie Rodgers Folk Songs
25161My Name...Jose Jimenez
25162Pat Harrington, Jr. as Guido Panzini and Bill Dana as Kookie as Ever and Bill Dana
25163Enzo Stuarti
25164The Gospel in Words & Music
25165Top Polka Million Sellers & His Orchestra
25166Doin' the Twist at the Peppermint LoungeJoey Dee and the Starliters
25167Happy Sounds with the Louis Bellson Orchestra
25168Hey, Let's TwistVarious Artists
25169Twistin' at the Roundtable with the Orchids
25170Dinah '62
25171All the World is TwistinJoey Dee and the Starliters
25172Twistin' at the Miami Beach Peppermint LoungeSeven Blends
25173Back at the Peppermint LoungeJoey Dee and the Starliters
25174Twistin' Knights at the Roundtable and His Comets
25175Let's All Twist at Peppermint Lounge and His Escapades
25176The Most of the TwistVarious Artists
25177The Dixie Sound of Jack Teagarden
25178Brilliant Big Band Ballads and Blues
2517915 Million Sellers
25180In Love
25181Come On, Let's Play with Pearlie Mae
25182Two Tickets To Paris Various Artists
25183Drinking Again
25184The Trombone Artistry of Tyree Glenn
25185This Was BurlesqueOriginal Cast Album
25186How to Strip for Your HusbandOrchestra conducted by Sonny Lester
25187Songs for the John
25188Hit Movie Themes in Italiano
25189Back to the Blues
25190Modern Dance Band Sounds of Country & Western Hits Orchestra
25191Murray the K Presents Golden Gassers for Hand HoldersVarious Artists
25192Murray the K Presents Golden Gassers for a Dance PartyVarious Artists
25193Bossa Nova
25195About Good Little Girls and Bad Little Boys
25196The Next One Will Kill You
25197Joey Dee
25198The Barry Sisters in Israel
25199Folk Songs
25200Lowdown Back Porch BluesLouisiana Red
25201The Funniest New Comic Since the Last New Comic
25202How to Belly Dance for Your Husband and His FriendsLittle Egypt and the Sonny Lester Orchestra
25203At Home with That Other Family and Gwen Davis
25204Tapped Wires and Rhonda Brown
25205Don Sherman at the Playboy Club
25206Bossa Nova Italian Style
25207Golden Goodies Volume 1Various Artists
25208Lou Christie
25209Golden Goodies Volume 4: Goodies for a Dance PartyVarious Artists
25210Golden Goodies Volume 2Various Artists
25211Golden Goodies Volume 3Various Artists
25212Golden Goodies Volume 7Various Artists
25213Golden Goodies Volume 9Various Artists
25214Golden Goodies Volume 8Various Artists
25215Golden Goodies Volume 5Various Artists
25216Golden Goodies Volume 6Various Artists
25217Golden Goodies Volume 10Various Artists
25218Golden Goodies Volume 12Various Artists
25219Golden Goodies Volume 11Various Artists
25220Dinah '63
25221Dance-Dance-Dance
25222C'est la Vie
25223Old Country Polka
25224More How to Strip for Your HusbandOrchestra conducted by Sonny Lester
25225More How to Belly Dance for Your HusbandLittle EgyptOrchestra conducted by Sonny Lester
25228Rendezvous in Istanbul
25229Rendezvous in Greece
25230Rendezvous in Armenia
25231Strike Up the Band and Count BasieReissue of 25072 with different track order
25232Ragtime U.S.A
25233Gospel Concert: The Ward Singers Recorded Live
25234Easier Said Than Done
25235A Walkin' Miracle
25236And Now...The Missing Otis Trio
25237Meetin'
25238Instrumental Golden Goodies Volume 13Various Artists
25239Golden Goodies Volume 14Various Artists
25240Golden Goodies Volume 15Various Artists
25241Golden Goodies Volume 16Various Artists
25242Golden Goodies Volume 17Various Artists
25243Portrait of Mr. T
25244In Tribute
25245Organ Dynamics
25246Young and Lively featuring Anita Humes
25247Golden Goodies of 1963 Volume 18Various Artists
25248Your Favorite Groups and Their Golden Goodies Volume 19Various Artists
2524920 Original Winners Volume 1Various Artists
25250Jerry Blavatt Presents the Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon
2525120 Original Winners Volume 2Various Artists
25252Hootenanny NashvilleGene & Jerry
25253A Stranger on Earth
25254Good Guy Jack Spector Presents 22 Original WinnersVarious Artists
25255The Best of Ronnie Hawkins
25256Golden Goodies GoodiesVarious Artists
25257The Magic World of ItalyVarious Artists
25258The World of the Barry Sisters
25259The Risque World of Pearl Bailey
25260The World of Dinah Washington
25261The World of Jack Teagarden
25262Music to Stop Smoking By Quartet
2526320 Original Winners Volume 3Various Artists
2526420 Original Winners Volume 4Various Artists
25265Melodie d'Italia
25266Polish Songs
25267Yiddish Songs
25268Wedding Polkas
25269Dinah WashingtonCompilation
25270What's New
25271Songs by James Van Heusen
25272Let's Go Bobo!
25273WFUN Good GuysVarious Artists
25274Drums!, Drums!, Drums!Olatunji
25275Rockin' in the 25th Century
25276My Fair Lady Goes Latin
25277Race!
25278By Jupiter & Girl Crazy & Roy Kral
25279Polynesian Rendezvous and George Tumahai
25280They Call Us Au Go-Go Singers
25281Love Songs from a Cop
25282Songs I Sang with Guy Lombardo
25283Cascading VoicesHugo & Luigi
25284I Sing in a Pub
25285Jewish Folk Songs and Sholom Secunda
25286More Italian Songs Mama Never Taught
25287More Polish Songs Mama Never Taught
25288Greek Songs Mama Never Taught Me
25289The Best of Dinah Washington
2529020 All Time No. 1 HitsVarious Artists
25291WMAK Jet Set-22 WinnersVarious Artists
25292Life with Liz and Dick
2529320 Original Winners of 1964Various Artists
25294The Greatest Hits of Little Anthony and the ImperialsLittle Anthony and the Imperials
25295WHK Good GuysVarious Artists
25297England's Newest Singing Sensations
25298Organ Shindig
25299And Now
25300For Women Only
25301More of Frankie Randall
25302The Tiffiny Singers
2530350 Best Loved Italian Songs
2530420 "Big Boss" Favorites: 10 Great Hits of 1964 - 10 Great Oldies HitsVarious Artists
25306Music of the Middle East
25307WING Lively GuysVarious Artists
25308The Many Faces of the Detergents
25309Polka Spectaculars and his Polka Poppers
25310The Hullaballoos On Hullabaloo
25311German Songs Mama Taught Me
25312Live from the Ratfink Room
25313Sincerely
25314Tales
25315Tweetie Pie
25316Shame and Scandal in the Family
25317The Detective
25318Searching the Gospel
25320Polish Songs Mama Never Taught Me
25321Slovenian Songs Mama Taught Me and His Happy Slovenians
25322Music for Batman and Robin
25323Sam and DaveSam & Dave
25324Live at the Taft
25325Polka Memories & Polka Team
25326The Exciters
25328Dave "Baby" Cortez In Orbit
25329Etta Jones SingsWith Junior Mance, Kenny Burrell, Frank Wess, Joe Newman, Milt Hinton
25330Honky Tonk a-la Mod!
25331Strike Up the Band & Count Basie
25332Lou Christie Strikes AgainStereo reissue of Lou Christie Strikes Back
25333WWIN Astro Jocks Present 20 Original WinnersVarious Artists
25334This Hombre Called Lemon
25336Hanky PankyTommy James and the Shondells
25337WOL- Soul BrothersVarious Artists
25338K-BOX Dusty DiscsVarious Artists
25339The Matadors Meet the Bull
25343What's New!!!
25344It's Only LoveTommy James and the Shondells
25245Man in Love
25346I Keep Comin' Back!
25347Color Me OBG: Station WDRCVarious Artists
25348KGFJ Sounds of SuccessVarious Artists
25349Canzone D'AmoreRay Allen
25350Our AnniversaryShep and the Limelites
25351Aqui Se Habla Espanol
25352Songs of My People
25353I Think We're Alone NowTommy James and the Shondells
25354Parallel-a-Stitt
25355Something Special! The Best of Tommy James and the ShondellsTommy James and the Shondells
25356Ma Vie
25357Gettin' TogetherTommy James and the Shondells

25358
The Fallen Angels
25359Don't Walk, Dance!
25360This Is My Song
25361The Big Three Featuring Cass Elliot''

42000 Pop series

3000 Pop Series

Birdland Jazz Series

The Roulette 52000 Birdland Series of 12 inch LPs commenced in 1958 and consists of 124 album releases over 10 years.
CatalogAlbumArtistNotes
52001Life Is a Many Splendored Gig Orchestra
52002Appearing NightlyMitchell-Ruff Duo
52003Basie Orchestraaka E=MC2 and The Atomic Mr. Basie
52004Movin' In & Co.
52005A Man Ain't Supposed to Cry
52006Kenya-Afro Cuban JazzMachito & His Orchestra
52007Count Basie Presents Eddie Davis Trio + Joe Newman Trio and Joe Newman
52008The Rites of Diablo
52009Locking Horns & Zoot SimsRerelease of Rama Records LP
52010Southern Breeze
52011Basie Plays Hefti & Orchestra
52012A Message from Newport
52013Mitchell-Ruff Duo Plus Strings and BrassMitchell-Ruff Duo
52014Joe Newman with Woodwinds
52015Monday Night at Birdland, Curtis Fuller, Billy Root and Lee Morgan
52016Jeri Southern Meets Johnny Smith
52017'Round Midnight
52018Sing Along with Basie, Joe Williams, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
52019Eddie Davis Trio Featuring Shirley Scott, Organ Trio
52020Sweet Talk
52021Memories Ad-Lib & Joe Williams
52022Another Monday Night at Birdland, Curtis Fuller, Billy Root and Lee Morgan
52023Sweetenings
52024Basie One More Time Orchestra
52025Jazz for JuniorsMitchell-Ruff Duo
52026Machito with Flute to BootMachito
52027A Message from Birdland Orchestra
52028Breakfast Dance and Barbecue and His Orchestra featuring Joe Williams
52029Basie/Eckstine Incorporated & Billy Eckstine
52030Joe Williams Sings About You
52031Piano Portraits by Phineas Newborn
52032Chairman of the Board
52033Everyday I Have the Blues with Count Basie and His Orchestra
52034Jazz Mission to MoscowMitchell-Ruff Duo
52035Illinois Jacquet Plays Cole Porter
52036Dance Along with Basie and His Orchestra
52037The Sound of MusicMitchell-Ruff Duo
52038Maynard Ferguson Plays Jazz for Dancing
52039That Kind of Woman
52040England's Ambassador of Jazz
52041Patented by Edison Quintet
52042In the Vernacular
52043I Love a Piano
52044Not Now, I'll Tell You When
52045School of Rebellion
52046Dreamy
52047Newport Suite
52048My Crying Hour
52049Gretsch Drum Night at BirdlandVarious Artists
52050The Most Volume 1Various Artists
52051String Along with Basie
52052No Cover, No Minimum
52053The Most Volume 2Various Artists
52054Just the Blues & Count Basie
52055Let's Face the Music and Dance
52056Kansas City Suite & His Orchestra
52057The Most Volume 3Various Artists
52058No Coast Jazz Quartet
52059Collaboration
52060The Divine One
52061Count Basie/Sarah Vaughan & Count Basie
52062The Most Volume 4Various Artists
52063Seven Deadly Sins
52064Maynard '61
52065Basie at Birdland
52066Sentimental and Melancholy
52067Gretsch Drum Night Volume 2Various Artists
52068Two's Company & Chris Connor
52069Together & Harry "Sweets" Edison
52070After Hours
52071Have a Good Time with Joe Williams
52072Count Basie Swings, Tony Bennett Sings & Tony Bennett
52074Together for the First Time & Duke Ellington
52075The Most Volume 5Various Artists
52076"Straightaway" Jazz Themes
52078Conga SoulCandido
52079Soul Brother
52080A Night at Count Basie's
52081The Best of Basie
52082You're Mine You
52083Maynard '62
52084Si! Si! M.F.
52085Swingin' Night at Birdland
52086The Legend
52087Big Band Jazz from the Summit
52088Lalo = Brilliance
52089The Best of Basie Vol. 2
52090Maynard '63
52091Snowbound
52092The Explosive Side of Sarah Vaughan
52093Back to Basie & the Blues Orchestra & Joe WilliamsCompilation
52094The Best of Birdland Volume 1 / Lee Morgansplit album
52095Skin Burns
52096Jazz from Abroad
52097Bobo's Beat
52098The Mighty Two & Gene Krupa
52099Basie in Sweden
52100Star Eyes
52101Message from Maynard
52102One Is a Lonesome Number
52103The Great Reunion & Duke Ellington
52104The Lonely Hours
52105New Kind of Love
52106Easin' It
52107Maynard '64
52108We Three, Dinah Washington, & Joe Williams
52109The World of Sarah Vaughan
52110The World of Maynard Ferguson
52111The World of Basie Volume 1
52112Sweet 'n' Sassy
52113Back with Basie
52114My Fair Lady
52115The Return of Bud Powell
52116Sarah Sings Soulfully
52117Big Band Scene '65/Maynard Ferguson
52118Sarah + 2
52119Live!
52120Explorations/Lalo Schifrin
52121Jazz
52122Afro-Jazziac & Machito
52123Sarah Slightly Classical
52124Quote, UnquoteCompilation

5000 Jazz Series

2-LP Birdland Series

500 Comedy Series

800 Soundtrack Series

All of the soundtracks in this series were for films released in the United States during 1966.
CatalogAlbumArtistNotes
801A Study in Terror
802The Russian Adventure
803Sleeping Beauty
804The Peach ThiefSimeon Pironkov
805Four in the Morning

80000 Original Cast Series

10 Original Cast Series

100 Echoes Series

Reissue series from used by the label during 1973. All these albums have "Echoes of An Era" somewhere in the title. They are two-album sets.
CatalogAlbumArtistNotes
101Echoes of an Era: The Maynard Ferguson YearsMaynard Ferguson
102Echoes of an Era: The Count Basie YearsCount Basie
103Echoes of an Era: The Stan Getz YearsStan Getz
104Echoes of an Era: The Dinah Washington YearsDinah Washington
105Echoes of an Era: The Sarah Vaughan YearsSarah Vaughan
106Echoes of an Era: Diz and BirdDizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker
107Echoes of an Era: Count Basie with Tony Bennett and Sarah VaughanCount Basie, Tony Bennett and Sarah Vaughan
108Echoes of an Era: Music to Keep Your Husband HappySonny Lester
109Echoes of an Era: The Louis Armstrong YearsDuke Ellington and Louis Armstrong
110Echoes of an Era: The Maynard Ferguson and Herbie Mann YearsMaynard Ferguson and Herbie Mann
111Echoes of an EraJack Tatum, Erroll Garner, Bud Powell & B. Taylor
112Echoes of a Rock Era: The Early YearsVarious Artists
113Echoes of a Rock Era: The Middle YearsVarious Artists
114Echoes of a Rock Era: The Later YearsVarious Artists
115Echoes of a Rock EraVarious Artists
116Echoes of an Era: Message From Newport/Newport SuiteMaynard Ferguson
117Echoes of an Era: Queen of the BluesDinah Washington
118Echoes of an Era: The Best of Count BasieCount Basie
119Echoes of an Era: The Best of Stan GetzStan Getz
120Echoes of an Era: The Best of Charlie ParkerCharlie Parker
121Echoes of an EraJohnny Dankworth and Billy Strayhorn
122Echoes of an Era: Maynard Ferguson '61/Si! Si! M.F.Maynard Ferguson
123Echoes of an EraStan Getz and Sonny Stitt
124Echoes of an Era: Kansas City Suite/Easin' ItCount Basie
125Echoes of an Era: The Immortal Dinah WashingtonDinah Washington
126Echoes of an EraCount Basie, Stan Getz and Sarah Vaughan
127Echoes of an Era: Birdland Live at Carnegie HallVarious Artists
128Echoes of an EraJoe Newman, Zoot Sims, John Coltrane and Ray Draper
129Echoes of an EraJackie McLean Quintet and Sextet
130Echoes of an Era: Bantu AfrikaRandy Weston
131Echoes of an EraArt Blakey and his Jazz Messengers
132Echoes of an Era: VernacularJohn Handy

59000 Original Rock N' Roll Hits Series

This was the label's final effort at repackaging its old recordings.
CatalogAlbumArtistNotes
59001Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 50s, Volume 1Various Artists
59002Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 50s, Volume 2Various Artists
59003Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 50s, Volume 3Various Artists
59004Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 50s, Volume 4Various Artists
59005Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 50s, Volume 5Various Artists
59006Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 50s, Volume 6Various Artists
59007Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 50s, Volume 7Various Artists
59008Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 50s, Volume 8Various Artists
59009Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 50s, Volume 9Various Artists
59010Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 60s, Volume 10Various Artists
59011Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 60s, Volume 11Various Artists
59012Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 60s, Volume 12Various Artists
59013Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 60s, Volume 13Various Artists
59014Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 60s, Volume 14Various Artists
59015Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 60s, Volume 15Various Artists
59016Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 60s, Volume 16Various Artists

9000 African Series

These albums, which were acquired by Roulette for U.S. distribution, were recorded in the continent of Africa.
CatalogAlbumArtistNotes
9001Songs of New NationsThe De Paur Chorus
9002Life in the BushVarious Artists
9003Music of West AfricaVarious Artists
9004Dahomey GuineeVarious Artists

65000 International Series

These albums, which were acquired by Roulette for U.S. distribution, were recorded in the continent of Africa.
CatalogAlbumArtistNotes
9001Uhuru AfrikaRandy Weston
65002Around the World in PercussionLouis Bellson

75000 Classical Series

100 Demo Series