Sutton Records

Sutton Records
Parent company	Sutten Enterprises
Founder	Bob Blythe
Status	defunct
Genre	Various
Country of origin	United States
Location	Hollywood, California

Sutton Records was a budget record label that was sold in outlets other than record shops. The outlets for Sutton were supermarkets, gas stations etc., would be serviced by rack jobbers. In addition to cover versions, the label issued recordings by The Ink Spots, Jesse Crawford and Jimmy Witherspoon.

Sutton was founded by Bob Blythe, the former president of Tops Records. In 1963, the label began with 225 records in its catalogue. Some of the label catalogues that they sourced their recordings from were Music Craft, Omega and Tiara. One solo artist to have a record issued on the label was Jimmy Witherspoon with Stormy Monday And Other Blues By. One of the groups to have an albums released on the label was a group called New Dimension who never released any singles. Tony Hilder and Robert Hafner had a deal with Sutton. This is an example of one of the many budget releases were packaged in generic sleeves and sent straight to shops to go into the cut-out bins and racks. In 1965, it was announced in the October 16 issue of Billboard, that Pat Collins aka the "Hip Hypnotist" was to do a couple of albums for the label.

Manny Kopelman was a significant shareholder. Vice-president in charge of Sales was Danny Weston. Artie Belnick left Sutton to go and work for Connoisseur Records in 1964.

...
Wikipedia