Back Beat
Also appears as "Back Beat Records" or "Backbeat".
American label originally from Houston, TX, launched in August 1957. A subsidiary of Don Robey's Peacock Records, best known for recordings by Roy Head, O.V. Wright and Carl Carlton.
For any unofficial / bootleg copies of this label please use Back Beat
Shut down in 1974 by ABC Records (which bought Robey's labels two years earlier; the remaining acts, including Carlton, were transfered to the parent ABC label).
Later renamed ABC Back Beat.
45 RPM Catalog Number, Date and Label Identification:
500 through 530 (1957–1959): White label.
531 and higher (1960 forward): Red "drum" label.
The label name is often shown as one word, "Backbeat."
Contact:American label originally from Houston, TX, launched in August 1957. A subsidiary of Don Robey's Peacock Records, best known for recordings by Roy Head, O.V. Wright and Carl Carlton.
For any unofficial / bootleg copies of this label please use Back Beat
Shut down in 1974 by ABC Records (which bought Robey's labels two years earlier; the remaining acts, including Carlton, were transfered to the parent ABC label).
Later renamed ABC Back Beat.
45 RPM Catalog Number, Date and Label Identification:
500 through 530 (1957–1959): White label.
531 and higher (1960 forward): Red "drum" label.
The label name is often shown as one word, "Backbeat."
Earlier:
5208 Wylie
Houston, TX
Later (circa 1970):
2809 Erastus St.
Houston, TX 77026