43 North Broadway, LLC.
43 North Broadway, LLC is a global rights management company focused on acquiring iconic heritage entertainment-based intellectual property (“IP”) assets including master recordings, music copyrights and songwriter royalties. 43 North has acquired over 100,000 copyrights since its founding, including but not limited to the labels: Metromedia Records, Private Stock Records, Roadshow Records, Everest Records, Tradition Records, Audio Fidelity, Sussex Records, Skye Records, Sierra Records, Jewel - Paula Records, Fire & Fury Records, Chief Records, Enjoy Records, Cash Records, Arvee Records…
Our Labels

Everest Records
43 North Broadway acquired the Everest Record Group of labels from Bernard Solomon.
Everest was founded by Harry D. Belock and Bert Whyte of the Belock Instrument Corporation, in May 1958. The label was sold to Bernard Solomon, former accountant for the Belock Instrument Corporation, in 1962.
The Everest Record Group acquired many labels over the years, Tradition Records, Scala Records, HiFi Records, Arvee Records to name a few.

Riviera
Riviera Records was created for the band The Rivieras, who scored big with their first single, “California Sun”, released in October ’63. Bill Dobslaw was the original owner of the label, managed the band, and occasionally sang with them as well. 43 North Broadway via acquisition owns exclusive worldwide copyrights to Riviera Records.

Roadshow Records
43 North Broadway acquired Roadshow Record catalog and sub-labels from founder Fred Frank.
Roadshow Records was founded by Fred Frank and Sid Maurer in 1972.
Roadshow created the Coast To Coast imprint, whose significant release was by British disco diva Kelly Marie.
Additional sub-labels and publishing companies: Liquid 8, Nature’s Music, Inc., Desert Moon Records, Inc., “0’ Productions, Inc., Desert Rain Music Limited (ASCAP), Desert Moon Songs, LTD. and Triple “0” Songs
The label’s stars included B.T. Express, Enchantment, Kelly Marie and gospel music legend Shirley Caesar.

Audio Fidelity
43 North Broadway via acquisition owns exclusive worldwide copyrights to Audio Fidelity.
American label started by Sidney Frey in the mid 1950’s. Audio Fidelity (AF) became part of Audio Fidelity Records, Inc. in 1964 and of Audiofidelity Enterprises, Inc. in 1970.
In 1997, Colliers Media Company purchased AF out of bankruptcy and acquired by Margate Entertainment LLC in 2005.

Private Stock
Label founded and owned by Larry Uttal in 1974. After his death in 1993 Larry transferred all rights to his son Jai Uttal. 2016 Jai Uttal sold all rights to the Private Stock Records catalog to 43 North Broadway LLC.
Private Stock Record acts include Jose Feliciano, Samantha Sang, Cissy Houston, The Michael Zager Band, David Soul, Austin Roberts, Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band, Starbuck.

Jewel Records
43 North Broadway via acquisition owns exclusive worldwide copyrights to Jewel Records.
Shreveport, Louisiana based label and record company founded by record distributor and jukebox operator Stanley Lewis in 1963 after being encouraged by Leonard Chess to start his own label. He created sister labels Paula Records (named for his wife) and Ronn Records in 1965 and 1966 respectively as the pop and blues divisions. He also started releasing gospel (with the 0000 series) in 1966.
Jewel remained active until Lewis sold the company to eMusic in the late 1990s which in turn was acquired by Fuel Records and ultimately acquired by 43 North Broadway in the 2000s.

Black Jazz Records
43 North Broadway via acquisition owns exclusive worldwide copyrights to Black Jazz Records.
US jazz label founded 1971 in Oakland, CA, with financing and distribution provided by Dick Schory’s Ovation Records and managed by Gene Russell. The label was founded in order to showcase black musicians, invoking a more political and spiritual tone, and explored styles such as funk, free jazz, and soul jazz. 43 North acquired Black Jazz Records from Founder & Owner Dick Schory.
Artists included:
Doug Carn
Calvin Keys
Rudolph Johnson
The Awakening
Cleveland Eaton

Fuel Record Group
43 North Broadway acquired the Fuel Record Group from it’s founder and owner Len Fico. Fuel 2000 is an independent record label, formed in 1994 as part of the Fuel Label Group. One of the biggest independent record labels, it has amassed a catalog with over 20,000 master recordings.

Period Records
43 North Broadway via acquisition owns exclusive worldwide copyrights to Period Records.
US label known primarily for its classical and opera releases operating in the 1940s through to 1957. Recorded numerous jazz LPs as well, and numerous world recordings in the mid-to late 1950s. Originally related to the company Period Music Co. from New York, NY. Acquired in 1965 by Everest Records.

Tradition Records
43 North Broadway via acquisition owns exclusive worldwide copyrights to Tradition Records.
American folk label started in 1966 by Bernie Solomon at Everest Records, after he bought Tradition.
Most of the original Tradition LPs were reissued by Tradition/Everest with new labels on the records, but initially with the original covers, sleeve notes and “TLP” catalog numbers, with the only noticeable difference being the addition of the statement “An Everest Records Production” or similar remarks on the back sleeve. Everest also reissued some of the original LPs with different covers and titles — with different catalog numbers, 4 digits all begining “2” and the prefix “TR”, and some covers were changed in later pressings.

Counterpoint Records
43 North Broadway via acquisition owns exclusive worldwide copyrights to Counterpoint Records.
American label, originally established in 1949 as Esoteric by Bill Fox and Jerry Newman. In 1957 the label changed its name to Counterpoint, due to the increased emphasis on pop, jazz, and classical. The label was sold to Eichler Record Corporation in 1960. In 1963 the label and its catalog was sold to Everest Record Group, and the label was named Counterpoint / Esoteric Records.

HiFi Records
43 North Broadway via acquisition owns exclusive worldwide copyrights to HiFi Records.
Hollywood-based independent label founded in 1956 by Richard Vaughn that was among the pioneers of stereophonic recording. Hifi Records mainly output was Jazz & Pop-Instrumentals as well as it released influential albums in Exotica-music. 43 North Broadway, LLC. acquired exclusive worldwide rights to HiFi Records catalog.

Esoteric Records
43 North Broadway via acquisition owns exclusive worldwide copyrights to Esoteric Records.
American label established in 1949 by Bill Fox and Jerry Newman. The label was acquired by Everest Record Group in 1963. 43 North acquired all assets of Esoteric Records under its acquisition of Everest Record Group.
A few artists include:
El Pili
Harry And Jeanie West
Sonar Senghor And His Troupe
Claudia Muzio
New York Woodwind Quintet…

Everest Records Archive Of Folk & Jazz Music
43 North Broadway via acquisition owns exclusive worldwide copyrights to Everest Records Archive Of Folk & Jazz Music and sub-labels.
Everest Records Archive Of Folk & Jazz Music is an American folk and jazz label, originally founded as Archive Of Folk Music in 1965.

Beverly Hills Records
43 North Broadway via acquisition owns exclusive worldwide copyrights to Beverly Hills Records.
Beverly Hills Records was established in 1969 by the motion picture company Beverly Hills Studios with it’s record and publishing companies managed by Morris I. Diamond. In the 1970’s Diamond acquired the assets of Beverly Hills Records. 43 North acquired all rights to Beverly Hills Records from Diamond.
A few of the artists include:
Chet Baker
Debbie Reynolds
Melvin Van Peebles
Jaye P. Morgan…

DCC Compact Discs
43 North Broadway via acquisition owns exclusive worldwide copyrights to DCC Records.
Formed – 1986 & closed 2001
Former ABC-Dunhill Records promotions executive Marshall Blonstein, who served in the same capacity with Epic Records-CBS as well as serving as president of Island Records and co-founding Ode Records, (re-)launched Dunhill Compact Classics (sans ABC) in 1986 – a week after hearing his first CD in a record shop.

Deesu Records
43 North Broadway via acquisition owns exclusive worldwide copyrights to Deesu Records.
US soul record label founded by Allen Toussaint and Marshall E. Sehorn in 1970 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Some releases from the label spelled the name as “Dee-Su”.
The label sometimes quotes “Deesu” and sometimes “Deesu Records”
The label was associated with Sansu and was a division of Sansu Enterprises Inc. Early releases from the label were distributed by Dover Records, Inc.

Cash Records
43 North Broadway via acquisition owns exclusive worldwide copyrights to Cash Records.
American R&B record label located in Los Angeles, CA and founded by John Dolphin. Active from 1954 to 1968.
Specialized in rhythm and blues and vocal harmony groups aimed at a white teenage audience.
Part of the ‘Dolphin’s Of Hollywood’ roster of labels along with Money Records, Recorded In Hollywood, and Lucky Records.

Recorded In Hollywood Records
43 North Broadway via acquisition owns exclusive worldwide copyrights to Recorded In Hollywood Records.
Label founded in 1950 by John Dolphin, founder of the Dolphins Of Hollywood chain of record stores in Los Angeles. Dolphin built up an R&B music empire which laid some of the foundations of a West Coast black music industry.
The label concentrated on jazz and blues music.
Its first major hit, with R&B singer Percy Mayfield’s “Two Years of Torture”

Money Records
43 North Broadway via acquisition owns exclusive worldwide copyrights to Money Records.
Money Records was founded by John Dolphin in 1954. Dolphin sold the label and its assets to Don Pierce of Hollywood Records 1957. 43 North acquired Money Records assets
A few artists:
The Larks “The Jerk”
Bettye Swann “Make Me Yours”
Memphis Slim “My Country Gal”
The Turks “I’m A Fool”

Sound stage 7 Records
43 North Broadway via acquisition owns exclusive worldwide copyrights to Sound Stage 7 Records.
Sound stage 7 Records is a subsidiary label of Monument started in 1963 by Fred Foster and later connected to John Richbourg and his assistant Allen Orange. It was mostly used for the release of Soul/R&B singles, and only released a small amount of LPs.
Artists on this label included Joe Simon, The Dixiebelles, Allen Orange, The O’Jays, Arthur Alexander, and Ivory Joe Hunter.

J.O.B. Records
43 North Broadway via acquisition owns exclusive worldwide copyrights to J.O.B. Records.
J.O.B. Records is a US blues record label formed in 1949 in Chicago, Illinois by Joe Brown & James B. Oden. Also appears as “J.O.B.” only or “JOB Records”.
The label was sold to Paula Records in 1972.