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page 1Record labels established in 1952
Sun Records
American independent record label in Memphis, Tennessee
Balkanton
right|thumb|A Balkanton logo on a vinyl record
Balkanton () was a state-owned record manufacturing company in Bulgaria founded in 1952. Many of the produced records were, or still are available in the countries of the former Eastern Bloc. Balkanton's plant in Sofia was equipped for all aspects of record manufacturing from recording the masters and pressing the vinyl records to printing the cover.
Multi-channel sound recording was introduced in 1972 with equipment purchased from England. In 1982, Balkanton received its own digital recording equipment. By the mid-1980s, annual LP production rea
Checker
US record label, subsidiary of Chess Records
Debut Records
US record label
Duke Records
American record label
Festival
Australian record label
Pacific Jazz Records
American record label
Cadence
US record label
Bell Records
US record label (active 1952–1974)
Meteor Records
American record label, signed and recorded Southern artists from 1952 to 1957
Parrot Records
American Chicago based record label