King/Federal/Queen

King/Federal/Queen Formed in Ohio in 1943 by Sydney Nathan as a country label, King Records foundered after its first few releases and was relaunched in late 1944 from a new address on Brewster Avenue in Cincinnati. Nathan believed in total control, so the Brewster Avenue address housed a recording studio, record pressing plant, printing press, design studio, warehouse, and distributorship in addition to the label’s offices. The label’s R&B subsidiary, Queen Records, was launched in 1945 with…