King Records

King Records King Records was an independent record label that thrived between 1944 and 1968. Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, the company specialized in African American and country and western music. However, the firm also managed to record and issue a sizable amount of both black and white gospel music in both genres during their years in business, much of it influential. King Records as a corporation was the brainchild of a Jewish entrepreneur named Sydney Nathan (April 27, 1904; March 5, 1968)…