Jubilee/Josie (Label)

Jubilee/Josie (Label) Jubilee was originally founded in May 1946 by producer Herb Abramson; he sold it to Jerry Blaine in September 1947 when he partnered with Ahmet Ertegun in the nascent Atlantic label. The company scored its major single hits with doo-wop groups, beginning in 1953 with Crying in the Chapel by the Orioles (Jubilee 5122); other doo-wop hits followed in the mid-1950s on the subsidiary Josie label, including the Cadillacs’s Speedo (#17 pop, 1956; Josie 785) and the teen-pop…