Gateway Records was a Cincinatti, Ohio, based budget record label, founded in 1952.
The label belonged to Carl Burckhardt’s record company Rite Record Productions and issued cover versions of hit recordings.
There were three different Gateway labels: Gateway, Gateway Top Tune, and Gateway Parade of Hits. The records were recorded and manufactured by Rite.
Rite sold Gateway in 1958 to a Philadelphia record company, which closed the label the same year.
Chwyli Dnistra was an Ukrainian publishing house that published Ukrainian books, records, greeting cards and art albums.
It has been founded 1954 in Cleveland (USA) by Vasily Ilchyshyn.
Publishing products have diverged in the US, Canada and European countries.
In total, Chwyli Dnistra (Waves of the Dniester) released 45 records which contained about 500 titles.
The recordings featured songs by artists and collectives of the Ukrainian diaspora, as well as recordings from other record labels.
The numbering system is from CD-01 to CD-45.
CD-01 to CD-13 discs (except CD-7) were 78 rpm records
CD-14 to CD-45 were released at 33 rpm.
Federal Records was an American record label founded in 1950 as a subsidiary of Syd Nathan’s King Records and based in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was run by famed record producer Ralph Bass and was mainly devoted to Rhythm & Blues releases. The company also released hillbilly and rockabilly recordings from 1951 onward, e.g., “Rockin’ and Rollin” by Ramblin’ Tommy Scott on Federal 10003.
Singles were published on both 45 and 78 rpm speed formats. James Brown was touring with The Famous Flames when they were signed to Federal in 1956. The group’s first Federal single, “Please, Please, Please,” was a regional hit and eventually sold a million copies. Federal also issued such classics as The Dominoes’ “Sixty Minute Man”, and “Have Mercy Baby” as well as Hank Ballard & The Midnighters’ “Work With Me, Annie” which was opposed immediately by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) but went on to be an enormous hit.
Between 1962 and 1965 Freddie King, one of the three Blues “kings” (Freddie, B.B. and Albert), released a series of albums, mostly instrumentals, for Federal.
There has also been a Federal label in the 1920s in Albany, NY.
Dart Records was a record label from Cleveland, Ohio.
It seems that it only operated in 1949 – 1953. All the known pressings were made by Chester Budny, one of Cleveland’s great southside polka musicians of the 1940s and 1950s. He recorded from 1949 to 1953 on Bravo, Dart, and Columbia records.
The record series began with 100 and ended approx. with 112 due to the fact that Chester Budny only recorded 24 songs on 78rpm records.
Fraternity Records was established by songwriter Harry Carlson in Cincinnati, Ohio in the year 1954 .
The label had a few hits in the 1950s and 1960s by artists such as Lonnie Mack, Jimmy Dorsey or Cathy Carr, but never had a lasting impact, but the label managed to survive for decades, well into the 1980s. Shad O’Shea purchased the company from Carlson in 1975.
