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Also appears as "Nashboro Records". Label founded in 1951 by Nashville-based record store owner Ernie Young. Its output was mainly gospel music (with most rock, R&B, blues and soul appearing on subsidiary labels Nasco, Mankind (2), Excello and Abet; reissues appeared on the Ernie's label, named for the company's founder). Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Nashboro was one of the dominant black gospel labels alongside Peacock and Jewel Records. The also distributed other labels, for example , in the 70s. The label went into decline in the early 1980s and was sold to AVI Records in 1982. It managed to survive until 1985 with the few remaining LP releases going through MCA Records distribution. Also credited as a copyright holder (short form for Nashboro Records/Nashboro Record Co./Nashboro Record Co., Inc.). The label's masters are now owned by Universal Music Group's Hip-O Records.
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Abet
Soul/R&B subsidiary label of Ernest L. Young's Nashboro Records, one of the dominant black gospel labels of the 1960s and 1970s. When Abet started in 1966, it almost exclusively released soul m...
Creed Records (2)
1960s-1980s gospel label from Nashville, Tennessee. Sister label of Nashboro Records.
Mankind (2)
Relatively short-lived R&B subsidiary of Nashboro Records (1972-76). The best-known releases were some early efforts by blues legend Z.Z. Hill.
Nasco Records
Crescent Records (2)
1960s gospel label from Nashville, Tennessee. Distributed by . Shared the same label artwork and many releases with .
All Time Gospel Hits
Nashboro Golden Gospel Series
Contact Label
1011 Woodland St. Nashville, TN, 37206 (615) 227-5801 (contact info now obsolete)