Jet Records
| Jet Records | |
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| Parent company | Sony Music Entertainment |
| Founded | 1974 |
| Founder | Don Arden |
| Status | Defunct |
| Distributor(s) |
Island Records (1974-75) (UK) Polydor Records (1975-76) (UK) United Artists Records (1976-78) (UK), (1974-78) (US) CBS Records (1978-85) Warner Music Group (1985-95) Island Def Jam Music Group (1995-present) |
| Genre | Pop, R&B |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Location | London, England |
Jet Records was a British record label set up by Don Arden, with artists such as Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), Roy Wood, Gary Moore, Ozzy Osbourne, Alan Price, Adrian Gurvitz, Riot and Magnum. The first release on the Jet Records label was "No Honestly", a UK top 10 for its singer and writer Lynsey De Paul in November 1974, followed by the Lynsey De Paul album, Taste Me... Don't Waste Me. De Paul wrote the second single on the Jet label, a song called "My One and Only" recorded by U.K. female group "Bones". The fourth single released on the label, "My Man and Me", was written and performed by Lynsey and it was the second U.K. hit single released on Jet Records. Lynsey released a second album entitled Love Bomb, before leaving the label in 1976 after an acrimonious split with Arden, resulting in her third Jet album Take Your Time being unreleased.
ELO were managed by Arden from the band's inception in 1972. They were initially signed to Harvest Records (a division of EMI) in the UK and United Artists Records in the US.Roy Wood left ELO in 1972 and formed his own group, Wizzard. During 1973 and 1974, ELO and Wizzard moved from the Harvest label to Warner Bros. Records in the UK. In 1975, the two bands and Wood's solo releases moved again in the UK to Jet, with their recent Warner Bros. material becoming part of Jet's catalogue.
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