Gusto Records
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| Parent company | Gusto Records, Inc. |
| Founded | 1973 |
| Founder | Moe Lytle Tommy Hill |
| Distributor(s) | Gusto Records |
| Genre | Various |
| Country of origin | U.S. |
| Location | Nashville, Tennessee |
| Official website | www |
Gusto Records is a Nashville, Tennessee based record company specializing in reissuing and licensing recordings.
The catalogues Gusto owns include King Records (except for recordings by James Brown),Starday, Scepter (except for recordings by Dionne Warwick, and the pre-RCA recordings of The Guess Who), Wand (except for recordings by The Kingsmen)Musicor, Chart, Federal, Audio Lab, Ovation, Step One, Atteiram, and others. Gusto is believed to maintain the largest, independently-owned collection of record masters.
Gusto was founded in 1973 by Gayron "Moe" Lytle and songwriter Tommy Hill, who owned the Stop Records label. Tommy Hill operated the business while Moe was still in St. Louis. In 1974, Moe Lytle moved to Nashville, and bought Tommy Hill's interest in the company, along with the Stop Records label, shortly thereafter. It acquired Starday-King Records from Tennessee Recording & Publishing, which was owned by , Hal Neely, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in 1975. In the late-1970s, Gusto purchased the Chart and Ovation catalog. Gusto acquired the Musicor, Scepter and Wand catalogues from the bankrupt Springboard International Records in 1984 from Jay-Koala, along with many masters that were recorded by Springboard themselves. Gusto also acquired Little Darlin' Records, and a large classical catalog in the same purchase. The Indigo and Audiograph masters were added in the 1980s. The most recent acquisitions were the Mel Street masters, the Step One master catalog, and the Atteream masters which included a large bluegrass catalog.
Gusto owns the longest-operating recording studio in Nashville. Best known as Starday Studios, it opened in 1952 and is still used today in 2008 for transferring some of the older style masters to other formats, and some new recordings.
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