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Roulette Records was an American record company and label founded in 1957 by George Goldner, Joe Kolsky, Morris Levy and Phil Kahl, with creative control given to producers and songwriters Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore. Levy was appointed director. The label had known ties to New York City mobsters. [1] Levy ran the label with an iron fist. [2]
Topics about Roulette Records albums in general should be placed in relevant topic categories This category contains studio albums released on the Roulette Records label. Please move any non-studio albums to an appropriate subcategory per WikiProject Albums guidelines .
While a Roulette artist had great creative control when recording for the company, the lack of payment for those efforts was difficult. [49] [51] [52] James estimated that Roulette owed him $30–40 million in unpaid royalties. [49] [48] James said Roulette was a front for organized crime, [53] and functioned as a money laundering operation. In ...
The usually reliable Goldmine Comedy Record Price Guide also claims that Pryor authorized the release of this album on Tiger Lily Records. As most sources such as Robert Plante claim, however, the releases on Tiger Lily were usually unauthorized--Tiger Lily being, in fact, a tax scam operated by Morris Levy , the Mafia connected head of ...
A part owner of Roulette Records, Vastola was the listed songwriter on several doo-wop hits from the 1950s and 1960s, including The Valentines song "Lily Maebelle", The Cleftones song "You Baby You", and The Wrens song "Hey Girl". During this period, Vastola also engaged in the counterfeiting of music records, netting him a $500,000 profit.
His four bandmates carried on for a short while under the name Hog Heaven, recording two albums (one "self-titled" on Roulette Records in March 1971 and the second recorded in 1971, but unreleased until 2008), and landing one Hot 100 hit, "Happy", at number 98, but disbanded soon afterwards.
Calla Records was a small, New York City-based independent black owned Soul record label run by Nate McCalla (1930-1980) [1] and active from approximately 1965 to 1977. McCalla was an associate and bodyguard for Morris Levy who headed Roulette Records which had known ties to the mob .
The most prominent artists known to have a record released by Tiger Lily were Richard Pryor, whose album L.A. Jail was released by Tiger Lily, and Rod Stewart, who had a live recording of him in performance at the 1973 Reading and Leeds Festivals released by Tiger Lily in 1976 under the title Reading Festival Featuring Rod Stewart.