Century Record Manufacturing Company
Century Record Manufacturing Company was a custom label recording company and record manufacturer founded in 1958, incorporated in California, and based in Saugus, California. It served the music education market, mostly at the collegiate and high school level, although it also produced recordings of professionals. The company went out of business in 1976. Mark Records is a comparable label. The company had its own pressing plant in Saugus. The company was family-owned and a subsidiary of Keysor-Century Corporation.
Ownership
- James Bernard Keysor, Jr., the son of a record manufacturing entrepreneur James Bernard "Bud" Keysor (1906–2000) who founded Keysor-Century Corporation of Saugus, was a partner in Century Record Manufacturing Company.[1] Keysor-Century, founded in 1954, was a manufacturer of polyvinyl chloride resins. RCA Records was Keysor-Century's biggest customer.[2]
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References
- ↑ Music Journal Annual Anthology, pg. 171 (1959) OCLC 4764064
- ↑ Diana Sevanian, Bud Keysor, Patriarch–Entrepreneur, Dead at 94, The Signal (Santa Clara Valley newspaper), May 29, 2000
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