Dot Records (Label)

Dot Records (Label) Country-pop label formed in 1951 by mail-order record dealer Randy Wood out of his Gallatin, Tennessee, home. The company enjoyed great success in the mid to late 1950s, primarily thanks to crooner Pat Boone’s covers of rock hits for the white, teen market. Wood moved the operation to Los Angeles by the decade’s end, and then sold the label to Paramount/Gulf and Western. They, in turn, sold the label to ABC, which revived the Dot name from time to time during the 1970s and…