Sugar Hill Records (hip hop label)

Sugar Hill Records
Founded	1979
Founder	Joe Robinson Sylvia Robinson Milton Malden
Defunct	1986
Status	Defunct
Distributor(s)	Rhino Entertainment, BMG Rights Management
Genre	Electro, Boogie, Hip-Hop
Country of origin	United States
Location	Englewood, New Jersey

Sugar Hill Records was a record label specializing in hip hop music that was founded in 1979 by husband and wife Joe and Sylvia Robinson with Milton Malden and financial funding of Morris Levy, the owner of Roulette Records.

Joe Robinson had parlayed a music publishing company that he established years before in New York into the All Platinum, Stang, and Turbo record labels prior to establishing the Sugar Hill label. Artists included his wife Sylvia, of Mickey & Sylvia fame ("who had success in the 50s with Love is Strange"), The Moments (Love on a Two Way Street), Brother to Brother, Shirley and Company ("Shame Shame Shame"), Linda Jones, Jack McDuff and Chuck Jackson.

The Sugar Hill label's first record was "Rapper's Delight" (1979) by The Sugarhill Gang, which was also the first Top 40 hip hop single. Afterwards The Sequence, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Funky Four Plus One, Crash Crew, Treacherous Three, and the West Street Mob, joined the label. Sugar Hill's in-house producer and arranger was Clifton "Jiggs" Chase. The in-house recording engineer was Steve Jerome. Al Goodman, leader of The Moments, ran the show and George Kerr was a major producer. Joe and Sylvia's sons Joey and Leland were also active in the business.. Sugar Hill Records was also part of the Welk Music Group up until April 1 2015. On April 1, 2015, Concord Records acquired both Vanguard Records and Sugar Hill Records from Welk Music Group.

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