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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn org" style="background-color: LightBlue">Dot Records</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Dot_Records_logo.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Dot_Records_logo.png/180px-Dot_Records_logo.png" decoding="async" width="180" height="96" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Dot_Records_logo.png/270px-Dot_Records_logo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Dot_Records_logo.png 2x" data-file-width="308" data-file-height="164" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent company</th><td class="infobox-data">Independent (1950–57)<br /><a href="/wiki/Paramount_Pictures" title="Paramount Pictures">Paramount Pictures</a> (1957–72)<br /><a href="/wiki/Gulf%2BWestern" class="mw-redirect" title="Gulf+Western">Gulf+Western</a> (1966–74)<br /><a href="/wiki/Famous_Music" title="Famous Music">Famous Music</a> Group (1972–74)<br /><a href="/wiki/ABC_Records" title="ABC Records">ABC Records</a> (1974–78)<br /><a href="/wiki/MCA_Records" title="MCA Records">MCA Records</a> (1985–86)<br /><a href="/wiki/Universal_Music_Group" title="Universal Music Group">Universal Music Group</a> (2014–17)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1950<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1950</span>)</span> (original)<br />2014 (revival)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Randy_Wood_(producer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Randy Wood (producer)">Randy Wood</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Gene_Nobles" title="Gene Nobles">Gene Nobles</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Defunct</th><td class="infobox-data">1978<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend itvend">1978</span>)</span> (original)<br />2017<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend itvend">2017</span>)</span> (revival)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Status</th><td class="infobox-data">Defunct</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Distributor(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Self-distributed (1950–68)<br />Famous Music Group (1968–74)<br />ABC Records (1974–78)<br />MCA Records (1985–86)<br /><a href="/wiki/Big_Machine_Label_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Big Machine Label Group">Big Machine Label Group</a> (2014–17)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category">Various (early)<br /><a href="/wiki/Country_music" title="Country music">Country</a> (later)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country of origin</th><td class="infobox-data">U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville, Tennessee</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Dot Records</b> was an American record label founded by <a href="/wiki/Randy_Wood_(record_producer)" title="Randy Wood (record producer)">Randy Wood</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gene_Nobles" title="Gene Nobles">Gene Nobles</a> that was active between 1950 and 1978. The original headquarters of Dot Records were in <a href="/wiki/Gallatin,_Tennessee" title="Gallatin, Tennessee">Gallatin, Tennessee</a>. In its early years, Dot specialized in artists from Tennessee. Then it branched out to include musicians from across the U.S. It recorded <a href="/wiki/Country_music" title="Country music">country music</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues" title="Rhythm and blues">rhythm and blues</a>, <a href="/wiki/Polkas" class="mw-redirect" title="Polkas">polkas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Waltzes" class="mw-redirect" title="Waltzes">waltzes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gospel_music" title="Gospel music">gospel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rockabilly" title="Rockabilly">rockabilly</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop</a>, and early <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_roll" title="Rock and roll">rock and roll</a>. </p><p>After moving to Hollywood in 1956, Dot Records bought many recordings by small local independent labels and issued them nationally. In 1957, Wood sold the label to <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Pictures" title="Paramount Pictures">Paramount Pictures</a>, but remained in charge until 1967, when he departed to join <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Welk" title="Lawrence Welk">Lawrence Welk</a> in the formation of <a href="/wiki/Ranwood_Records" title="Ranwood Records">Ranwood Records</a>. </p><p>In 1968, the label was acquired as part of the acquisition of Paramount by <a href="/wiki/Gulf_and_Western_Industries" title="Gulf and Western Industries">Gulf+Western</a>, which transitioned it to recording exclusively <a href="/wiki/Country_music" title="Country music">country music</a> and placed it under the management of <a href="/wiki/Famous_Music" title="Famous Music">Famous Music</a> in 1971. Gulf+Western sold its labels to <a href="/wiki/ABC_Records" title="ABC Records">ABC</a> in 1974. Dot was renamed to ABC-Dot Records before closing in 1978. </p><p>The label was reactivated in 2014 through a joint venture between <a href="/wiki/Big_Machine_Label_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Big Machine Label Group">Big Machine Label Group</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Republic_Records" title="Republic Records">Republic Records</a> unit of <a href="/wiki/Universal_Music_Group" title="Universal Music Group">Universal Music Group</a> (which owns the original Dot Records catalog). Based in <a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville, Tennessee</a>, the label was retired in 2017. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dot_Records&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_years">Early years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dot_Records&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dot's founder, Randy Wood, a veteran of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">Army</a> during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, settled in <a href="/wiki/Gallatin,_Tennessee" title="Gallatin, Tennessee">Gallatin, Tennessee</a>. There he started an appliance store named Randy's, and began carrying records as an afterthought in 1947. Wood initially carried records in the classical and popular genres, but found his customers were asking for records of such rhythm and blues artists as <a href="/wiki/Joe_Liggins" title="Joe Liggins">Joe Liggins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roosevelt_Sykes" title="Roosevelt Sykes">Roosevelt Sykes</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cecil_Gant" title="Cecil Gant">Cecil Gant</a>. They were staples of the playlist of <a href="/wiki/Nashville" class="mw-redirect" title="Nashville">Nashville</a>'s <a href="/wiki/CBS_Radio" title="CBS Radio">CBS Radio</a> affiliate, <a href="/wiki/WLAC" title="WLAC">WLAC</a>. </p><p>After discovering that their records were only available in limited quantities—and not in Gallatin—Wood formed a mail-order operation by placing a short advertisement with WLAC personalities <a href="/wiki/Bill_%22Hoss%22_Allen" title="Bill "Hoss" Allen">"Hoss" Allen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gene_Nobles" title="Gene Nobles">Gene Nobles</a>. By 1950, his record sales had far surpassed that of the appliances he carried and he renamed his store Randy's Record Shop. As an extension, he formed a label named Randy's, which released "Gene Nobles' Boogie" by Richard Armstrong, and Record Shop Special, which had Gant on its roster.<sup id="cite_ref-Dot_A_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dot_A-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After Wood purchased local radio station <a href="/wiki/WHIN" title="WHIN">WHIN</a>, he and Nobles formed Dot, a more widely distributed label, whose first headquarters were in that station's building. Since WHIN broadcast only in the daytime, recording sessions were at night when the station was off the air.<sup id="cite_ref-Dot_A_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dot_A-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One of the first artists he recorded was the young <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Maddox" title="Johnny Maddox">Johnny Maddox</a>, who packed records for him at his store, and whose <a href="/wiki/Honky_tonk" class="mw-redirect" title="Honky tonk">honky tonk</a> piano style graced Dot Records for almost twenty years. Wood's roster of R&B artists included <a href="/wiki/Ivory_Joe_Hunter" title="Ivory Joe Hunter">Ivory Joe Hunter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Liggins" title="Joe Liggins">Joe Liggins</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Four_Dots" class="mw-redirect" title="The Four Dots">the Four Dots</a>, the Big Three Trio, <a href="/wiki/Brownie_McGhee" title="Brownie McGhee">Brownie McGhee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shorty_Long" title="Shorty Long">Shorty Long</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Counts" title="The Counts">the Counts</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Griffin_Brothers" title="Griffin Brothers">Griffin Brothers</a>, who had a number one R&B hit with "Weepin' & Cryin'" (with vocal by Tommy Brown) in 1951. His country artists included <a href="/wiki/Mac_Wiseman" title="Mac Wiseman">Mac Wiseman</a>, who had hits with "<a href="/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Davy_Crockett" title="The Ballad of Davy Crockett">The Ballad of Davy Crockett</a>" and "Jimmy Brown the Newsboy", and, more famously, <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_C._Newman" title="Jimmy C. Newman">Jimmy "C." Newman</a>, who scored many hits on the label (the biggest being "<a href="/wiki/Cry,_Cry,_Darling" title="Cry, Cry, Darling">Cry, Cry, Darling</a>") before leaving for <a href="/wiki/MGM_Records" title="MGM Records">MGM Records</a> in 1958. Wood also recorded such gospel artists as the Fairfield 4, the Gateway Quartet, the Golden Voice Trio, Rosa Shaw, Joe Warren, the Singing Stars, and the Brewsteraires.<sup id="cite_ref-Dot_A_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dot_A-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dot's first major pop act was <a href="/wiki/The_Hilltoppers_(band)" title="The Hilltoppers (band)">The Hilltoppers</a>, whose hits included "<a href="/wiki/P.S._I_Love_You_(1934_song)" title="P.S. I Love You (1934 song)">P.S. I Love You</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Trying_(song)" title="Trying (song)">Trying</a>"; when lead singer <a href="/wiki/Billy_Vaughn" title="Billy Vaughn">Billy Vaughn</a> hit #2 with a revival of <a href="/wiki/Wayne_King" title="Wayne King">Wayne King</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Melody_of_Love_(song)" title="Melody of Love (song)">Melody of Love</a>", he left the group to become the label's main musical director.<sup id="cite_ref-Dot_A_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dot_A-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wood, seeing the demand for rhythm and blues recordings among white audiences, in 1955, hired a number of vocalists to do pop-oriented covers of tunes popular in the genre. The most notable artist who performed that function for Dot was <a href="/wiki/Pat_Boone" title="Pat Boone">Pat Boone</a>, who outsold the original recordings of <a href="/wiki/Otis_Williams_and_the_Charms" title="Otis Williams and the Charms">the Charms</a>' "<a href="/wiki/Two_Hearts_(The_Charms_song)" title="Two Hearts (The Charms song)">Two Hearts</a>", <a href="/wiki/Fats_Domino" title="Fats Domino">Fats Domino</a>'s "Ain't It a Shame" (which was changed to the slightly more grammatically correct "<a href="/wiki/Ain%27t_That_a_Shame" title="Ain't That a Shame">Ain't That a Shame</a>"), <a href="/wiki/The_Five_Keys" title="The Five Keys">the Five Keys</a>' "<a href="/wiki/Gee_Whittakers!" title="Gee Whittakers!">Gee Whittakers!</a>", <a href="/wiki/Little_Richard" title="Little Richard">Little Richard</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Tutti_Frutti_(song)" title="Tutti Frutti (song)">Tutti Frutti</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Long_Tall_Sally" title="Long Tall Sally">Long Tall Sally</a>", <a href="/wiki/The_El_Dorados" title="The El Dorados">the El Dorados</a>' "<a href="/wiki/At_My_Front_Door" title="At My Front Door">At My Front Door</a>", and Ivory Joe Hunter's "<a href="/wiki/I_Almost_Lost_My_Mind" title="I Almost Lost My Mind">I Almost Lost My Mind</a>". Boone in the late spring of 1956 opted to switch to original material in the <a href="/wiki/Bing_Crosby" title="Bing Crosby">Bing Crosby</a>/<a href="/wiki/Frank_Sinatra" title="Frank Sinatra">Frank Sinatra</a> tradition. </p><p>Other notable artists who did R&B covers for Dot included <a href="/wiki/The_Fontane_Sisters" title="The Fontane Sisters">the Fontane Sisters</a> (who covered <a href="/wiki/The_Jewels" title="The Jewels">the Jewels</a>' "<a href="/wiki/Hearts_of_Stone" title="Hearts of Stone">Hearts of Stone</a>", <a href="/wiki/The_Teen_Queens" title="The Teen Queens">the Teen Queens</a>' "<a href="/wiki/Eddie_My_Love" title="Eddie My Love">Eddie My Love</a>", <a href="/wiki/The_Drifters" title="The Drifters">the Drifters</a>' "Adorable", the Marigolds' "Rollin' Stone", and Fats Domino's "Please Don't Leave Me"), <a href="/wiki/Snooky_Lanson" title="Snooky Lanson">Snooky Lanson</a> (with covers of the Jacks' "Why Don't You Write Me" and the Dream Weavers' "It's Almost Tomorrow"), and actress <a href="/wiki/Gale_Storm" title="Gale Storm">Gale Storm</a> (with covers of <a href="/wiki/Frankie_Lymon" title="Frankie Lymon">Frankie Lymon</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Why_Do_Fools_Fall_in_Love_(song)" title="Why Do Fools Fall in Love (song)">Why Do Fools Fall in Love</a>" and <a href="/wiki/Smiley_Lewis" title="Smiley Lewis">Smiley Lewis</a>' "<a href="/wiki/I_Hear_You_Knocking" title="I Hear You Knocking">I Hear You Knocking</a>". (This last was revived by <a href="/wiki/Dave_Edmunds" title="Dave Edmunds">Dave Edmunds</a> in 1970).<sup id="cite_ref-Dot_A_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dot_A-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1956, Dot also made a noteworthy contribution to the <a href="/wiki/Easy_Listening" class="mw-redirect" title="Easy Listening">Easy Listening</a> genre by releasing a recording of popular music arranged by <a href="/wiki/John_Serry_Sr." title="John Serry Sr.">John Serry</a> (<a href="/wiki/Squeeze_Play_(album)" title="Squeeze Play (album)"><i>Squeeze Play</i></a>, DLP-3024, 1956).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Paramount_years">Paramount years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dot_Records&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Paramount years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dot_Paramount_logo.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/Dot_Paramount_logo.jpg" decoding="async" width="182" height="148" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="182" data-file-height="148" /></a><figcaption>Dot Records logo after its sale to Paramount Pictures combined the original Dot script logo with the Paramount mountain and halo of stars symbol.</figcaption></figure> <p>In late 1956, Wood signed <a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros." title="Warner Bros.">Warner Bros.</a> star <a href="/wiki/Tab_Hunter" title="Tab Hunter">Tab Hunter</a> to a record contract after Chicago disc jockey Howard Miller suggested to Wood that he might want to sign Hunter, who was enormously popular and had just packed a stage show in Chicago with screaming girls. Wood asked if Hunter could sing, but Miller replied, "I don't know, it doesn't matter, I guess." Tab Hunter was the first to tell Wood that he could not sing a note. However, after giving Hunter the <a href="/wiki/Ric_Cartey" title="Ric Cartey">Ric Cartey</a> tune "<a href="/wiki/Young_Love_(1956_song)" title="Young Love (1956 song)">Young Love</a>", Wood told producer Milt Rogers to repeatedly teach Hunter how to sing it until he finally reached the point where he could. The record topped the charts in 1957; Dot's release of a follow-up record from Hunter ("Ninety-Nine Ways") frustrated Warner Bros. chief <a href="/wiki/Jack_L._Warner" title="Jack L. Warner">Jack L. Warner</a>, who retaliated by forming <a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros._Records" class="mw-redirect" title="Warner Bros. Records">Warner Bros. Records</a> and placing Hunter on the label as its first artist.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1957, Wood sold the label to <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Pictures" title="Paramount Pictures">Paramount Pictures</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Dot_C_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dot_C-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but he remained president for another decade. Dot (and Wood) then moved to Hollywood, where the label began to release <a href="/wiki/Soundtrack_album" title="Soundtrack album">soundtrack albums</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Elmer_Bernstein" title="Elmer Bernstein">Elmer Bernstein</a>'s score for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Ten_Commandments_(1956_film)" title="The Ten Commandments (1956 film)">The Ten Commandments</a></i> (1956),<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a 2-LP set that played longer than the usual record album. </p><p>Remakes were commonplace at Dot in the 1960s, with the label having artists such as <a href="/wiki/Tony_Martin_(American_singer)" title="Tony Martin (American singer)">Tony Martin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jo_Stafford" title="Jo Stafford">Jo Stafford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vaughn_Monroe" title="Vaughn Monroe">Vaughn Monroe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gene_Austin" title="Gene Austin">Gene Austin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jimmie_Rodgers_(pop_singer)" title="Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer)">Jimmie Rodgers</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Andrews_Sisters" title="The Andrews Sisters">the Andrews Sisters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Debbie_Reynolds" title="Debbie Reynolds">Debbie Reynolds</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Fisher" title="Eddie Fisher">Eddie Fisher</a> re-record their old hits at various times; in 1968, Dot issued a various-artists album devoted to remakes of these artists' million-sellers.<sup id="cite_ref-Dot_C_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dot_C-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the late 1950s and 1960s, Wood would re-enter the rock and roll market by licensing material from independent producers. Most of his acquisitions charted and became major hits, including leases of Sanford Clark's "The Fool" from producer <a href="/wiki/Lee_Hazlewood" title="Lee Hazlewood">Lee Hazlewood</a>, Bonnie Guitar's "Dark Moon" from Fabor Records, the Del-Vikings' "<a href="/wiki/Come_Go_with_Me" title="Come Go with Me">Come Go with Me</a>" from Fee-Bee Records, Jimmie Dee and the Offbeats' "Henrietta" from Bob Tanner's TNT Records, Robin Luke's "<a href="/wiki/Susie_Darlin%27" title="Susie Darlin'">Susie Darlin'</a>" from Bertram International Records,<sup id="cite_ref-Dot_B_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dot_B-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Lonnie_Donegan" title="Lonnie Donegan">Lonnie Donegan</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Does_Your_Chewing_Gum_Lose_Its_Flavour_(On_the_Bedpost_Overnight%3F)" title="Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?)">Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?)</a>" from <a href="/wiki/Pye_Records" title="Pye Records">Pye Records</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Chantays" title="The Chantays">the Chantays'</a> "<a href="/wiki/Pipeline_(instrumental)" title="Pipeline (instrumental)">Pipeline</a>" from Downey Records, <a href="/wiki/The_Surfaris" title="The Surfaris">the Surfaris</a>' "<a href="/wiki/Wipe_Out_(instrumental)" title="Wipe Out (instrumental)">Wipe Out</a>" from the Princess label, and <a href="/wiki/The_Fireballs" title="The Fireballs">the Fireballs</a>' "<a href="/wiki/Sugar_Shack" title="Sugar Shack">Sugar Shack</a>" from producer <a href="/wiki/Norman_Petty" title="Norman Petty">Norman Petty</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Dot_C_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dot_C-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The label's success on the pop charts would be negatively impacted by the success of <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a> and the subsequent <a href="/wiki/British_Invasion" title="British Invasion">British Invasion</a>, and there were times, between 1964 and 1967, when it could not place a song on the <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100">Billboard Hot 100</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Bubbling_Under_Hot_100" title="Bubbling Under Hot 100">Bubbling Under Hot 100</a> chart or both of the two charts.<sup id="cite_ref-Dot_C_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dot_C-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Pat_Boone" title="Pat Boone">Pat Boone</a> had further success in the 1960s, registering a #1 hit in 1961 with "<a href="/wiki/Moody_River" title="Moody River">Moody River</a>", then coming back in 1962 with a #6 hit with "<a href="/wiki/Speedy_Gonzales_(song)" title="Speedy Gonzales (song)">Speedy Gonzales</a>". He was one of the Big Three Dot album sellers of the 1960s, along with Billy Vaughn and <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Welk" title="Lawrence Welk">Lawrence Welk</a>, whose orchestra members, such as <a href="/wiki/Myron_Floren" title="Myron Floren">Myron Floren</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jo_Ann_Castle" title="Jo Ann Castle">Jo Ann Castle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Feeney" title="Joe Feeney">Joe Feeney</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bob_Ralston" title="Bob Ralston">Bob Ralston</a>, released records alongside him in the 1960s. Welk and Vaughn in particular regularly appeared in the album top-twenty. <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Maddox" title="Johnny Maddox">Johnny Maddox</a>, banjo player <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Peabody" title="Eddie Peabody">Eddie Peabody</a>, <a href="/wiki/Steve_Allen" title="Steve Allen">Steve Allen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Louis_Prima" title="Louis Prima">Louis Prima</a>, <a href="/wiki/Keely_Smith" title="Keely Smith">Keely Smith</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Mills_Brothers" title="The Mills Brothers">the Mills Brothers</a> and organists <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Baxter" title="Eddie Baxter">Eddie Baxter</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_Wright_(organist)" title="George Wright (organist)">George Wright</a> made many albums for Dot as well.<sup id="cite_ref-Dot_C_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dot_C-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Known for artist loyalty, many of these artists stayed with Dot for over a decade, partly because Wood had a reputation for fairmindedness. His label was not impacted by any of the record industry scandals of the 1950s and Wood told a 1959 congressional hearing on payola that his books were open.<sup id="cite_ref-Dot_A_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dot_A-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Hamilton_Records" title="Hamilton Records">Hamilton Records</a>, a subsidiary, was founded in 1958 for rockabilly and rhythm & blues. It also functioned as a venue for albums by their regular roster of artists that could be retailed for $1.98, since all or most of the material featured on them was in the public domain, thereby obviating the need to pay song royalties. It distributed <a href="/wiki/Steed_Records" title="Steed Records">Steed Records</a> and the only two records from <a href="/wiki/Carnival_Records" title="Carnival Records">Carnival</a>, owned by <a href="/wiki/Herb_Alpert" title="Herb Alpert">Herb Alpert</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Moss" title="Jerry Moss">Jerry Moss</a>. Two other subsidiary labels were created: Crystalette Records and Acta Records. In 1967, Dot picked up distribution of <a href="/wiki/DynoVoice" class="mw-redirect" title="DynoVoice">DynoVoice</a>, owned by <a href="/wiki/Bob_Crewe" title="Bob Crewe">Bob Crewe</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Bell_Records_(1950s-70s)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bell Records (1950s-70s)">Bell Records</a>. Later in 1967, Randy Wood left Dot to found <a href="/wiki/Ranwood_Records" title="Ranwood Records">Ranwood Records</a> with Welk. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Country_music_label">Country music label</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dot_Records&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Country music label"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dot_Records_logo_1968.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Dot_Records_logo_1968.jpg/220px-Dot_Records_logo_1968.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="69" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Dot_Records_logo_1968.jpg/330px-Dot_Records_logo_1968.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Dot_Records_logo_1968.jpg/440px-Dot_Records_logo_1968.jpg 2x" data-file-width="563" data-file-height="177" /></a><figcaption>Dot's logo after Gulf+Western acquired Paramount. The Paramount logo was removed when Famous Music took over.</figcaption></figure> <p>Two years after Paramount was purchased by <a href="/wiki/Gulf%2BWestern" class="mw-redirect" title="Gulf+Western">Gulf and Western</a> in 1968, Dot was rebranded as a country music label, a move which revitalized the label's chart presence, albeit on the <a href="/wiki/Hot_Country_Songs" title="Hot Country Songs">Hot Country Songs</a> chart instead of the <a href="/wiki/Hot_100" class="mw-redirect" title="Hot 100">Hot 100</a>. Country artists on the label included <a href="/wiki/Freddy_Fender" title="Freddy Fender">Freddy Fender</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roy_Clark" title="Roy Clark">Roy Clark</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Mandrell" title="Barbara Mandrell">Barbara Mandrell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Billy_%22Crash%22_Craddock" title="Billy "Crash" Craddock">Billy "Crash" Craddock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Narvel_Felts" title="Narvel Felts">Narvel Felts</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Oak_Ridge_Boys" title="The Oak Ridge Boys">the Oak Ridge Boys</a>, <a href="/wiki/Don_Williams" title="Don Williams">Don Williams</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Overstreet" title="Tommy Overstreet">Tommy Overstreet</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Wesley_Ryles" title="John Wesley Ryles">John Wesley Ryles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Carver_(musician)" title="Johnny Carver (musician)">Johnny Carver</a>, <a href="/wiki/Donna_Fargo" title="Donna Fargo">Donna Fargo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Red_Steagall" title="Red Steagall">Red Steagall</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ray_Price_(musician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ray Price (musician)">Ray Price</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Stampley" title="Joe Stampley">Joe Stampley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buck_Trent" title="Buck Trent">Buck Trent</a>, Sue Richards, <a href="/wiki/Eddy_Raven" title="Eddy Raven">Eddy Raven</a>, <a href="/wiki/Diana_Trask" title="Diana Trask">Diana Trask</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ray_Griff" title="Ray Griff">Ray Griff</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ray_Pillow" title="Ray Pillow">Ray Pillow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Doug_Sahm" title="Doug Sahm">Doug Sahm</a> (formerly of the <a href="/wiki/Sir_Douglas_Quintet" title="Sir Douglas Quintet">Sir Douglas Quintet</a>), <a href="/wiki/Joe_Barry_(singer)" title="Joe Barry (singer)">Joe Barry</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Freddy_Weller" title="Freddy Weller">Freddy Weller</a> (formerly of <a href="/wiki/Paul_Revere_%26_the_Raiders" title="Paul Revere & the Raiders">Paul Revere & the Raiders</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-Dot_C_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dot_C-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the transition, Dot's pop back catalog was deleted and was transferred to the newly founded <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Records_(1969)" title="Paramount Records (1969)">Paramount</a> label.<sup id="cite_ref-Dot_C_6-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dot_C-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1971, Gulf and Western placed Dot under the umbrella of the <a href="/wiki/Famous_Music" title="Famous Music">Famous Music</a> Group,<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which included <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Records_(1969)" title="Paramount Records (1969)">Paramount Records</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stax_Records" title="Stax Records">Stax</a> (until 1970), and <a href="/wiki/Blue_Thumb_Records" title="Blue Thumb Records">Blue Thumb</a>, with distribution of <a href="/wiki/Sire_Records" title="Sire Records">Sire</a> (now owned by <a href="/wiki/Warner_Music_Group" title="Warner Music Group">Warner Music Group</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Neighborhood_Records" title="Neighborhood Records">Neighborhood</a>, originally owned by <a href="/wiki/Melanie_Safka" class="mw-redirect" title="Melanie Safka">Melanie Safka</a>. By 1968, Lawrence Welk had acquired his portion of the Dot back catalog and subsequently reissued the material on his own Ranwood label.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With the rest of the Famous Music Group, in 1974, Dot was bought by <a href="/wiki/ABC_Records" title="ABC Records">ABC</a>, which had tried to purchase the label years before, and renamed it to ABC/Dot Records, a name it retained before the label was discontinued at the start of 1978.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ABC/Dot headquarters became the <a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville</a> office of ABC Records. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Abcdotrecordslogo.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Abcdotrecordslogo.jpg/220px-Abcdotrecordslogo.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="71" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Abcdotrecordslogo.jpg/330px-Abcdotrecordslogo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Abcdotrecordslogo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="342" data-file-height="110" /></a><figcaption>The ABC/Dot Records logo. The logo first read 'ABC/Dot' and the word 'Records' was added later.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>ABC Records was then sold to <a href="/wiki/MCA_Records" title="MCA Records">MCA Records</a> in 1979. MCA's Nashville division briefly revived the Dot label in 1985–86 for a series of one-off albums by country music artists such as <a href="/wiki/Jan_Howard" title="Jan Howard">Jan Howard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jeanne_Pruett" title="Jeanne Pruett">Jeanne Pruett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jim_Ed_Brown" title="Jim Ed Brown">Jim Ed Brown</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Browns" title="The Browns">the Browns</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carl_Perkins" title="Carl Perkins">Carl Perkins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Billie_Jo_Spears" title="Billie Jo Spears">Billie Jo Spears</a>, <a href="/wiki/Porter_Wagoner" title="Porter Wagoner">Porter Wagoner</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tompall_Glaser" title="Tompall Glaser">Tompall Glaser</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The merger of the MCA Records and PolyGram Records families became the foundation for <a href="/wiki/Universal_Music_Group" title="Universal Music Group">Universal Music Group</a> in 1999. Currently, the Dot pop music catalog is managed by Universal Music's <a href="/wiki/Geffen_Records" title="Geffen Records">Geffen Records</a>. The country back catalog is managed by the former Decca and <a href="/wiki/Coral_Records" title="Coral Records">Coral</a> unit, which was rebranded as <a href="/wiki/MCA_Nashville_Records" class="mw-redirect" title="MCA Nashville Records">MCA Nashville</a>, except for those by Roy Clark and Hank Thompson (owned by their respective estates). </p><p>Randy Wood died at age 94 in his La Jolla, California, home on April 9, 2011, from complications after a fall. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Revival">Revival</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dot_Records&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Revival"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Big_Machine_Records" title="Big Machine Records">Big Machine Records</a> revived the Dot Records name for a new label in March 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The label's first signees included <a href="/wiki/Maddie_and_Tae" class="mw-redirect" title="Maddie and Tae">Maddie and Tae</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Drake_White" title="Drake White">Drake White</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Steven_Tyler" title="Steven Tyler">Steven Tyler</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Big Machine discontinued the label in 2017. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Artists">Artists</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dot_Records&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Artists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-notice" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/20px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/30px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text" style="width: auto;"><div class="mbox-text-span">This list is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists#Incomplete_lists" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists">incomplete</a>; you can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dot_Records&action=edit">adding missing items</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">May 2010</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>(**indicates a master purchase/lease from another record company) </p> <table> <tbody><tr> <td width="30">  </td> <td valign="top"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Liberace" title="Liberace">Liberace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hal_Aloma" title="Hal Aloma">Hal Aloma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Alexander" title="Arthur Alexander">Arthur Alexander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Allen" title="Steve Allen">Steve Allen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Wright_(organist)" title="George Wright (organist)">George Wright</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_Baxter" title="Eddie Baxter">Eddie Baxter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_American_Breed" title="The American Breed">The American Breed</a> (Acta)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Andrews_Sisters" title="The Andrews Sisters">The Andrews Sisters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernie_Andrews" title="Ernie Andrews">Ernie Andrews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Armstrong" title="Louis Armstrong">Louis Armstrong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Austin" title="Gene Austin">Gene Austin</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Ashman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles Ashman (page does not exist)">Charles Ashman</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Barlow" title="Jack Barlow">Jack Barlow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Count_Basie" title="Count Basie">Count Basie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Whiting" title="Margaret Whiting">Margaret Whiting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_Baxter" title="Eddie Baxter">Eddie Baxter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Baskerville_Hounds" title="The Baskerville Hounds">The Baskerville Hounds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leon_Berry" title="Leon Berry">Leon Berry</a></li> <li>Danny Boy (Danny Wahlquist)</li> <li>Al Bollington (British organist)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pat_Boone" title="Pat Boone">Pat Boone</a></li> <li>Pat & <a href="/wiki/Shirley_Boone" class="mw-redirect" title="Shirley Boone">Shirley Boone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Eden" title="Barbara Eden">Barbara Eden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Boyd" title="Jimmy Boyd">Jimmy Boyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Brennan" title="Walter Brennan">Walter Brennan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Ed_Brown" title="Jim Ed Brown">Jim Ed Brown</a> & The Browns</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Blenders" title="The Blenders">The Blenders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Browning_Bryant" title="Browning Bryant">Browning Bryant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rusty_Bryant" title="Rusty Bryant">Rusty Bryant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Burke" title="Jerry Burke">Jerry Burke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashley_Campbell_(musician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashley Campbell (musician)">Ashley Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jo_Ann_Castle" title="Jo Ann Castle">Jo Ann Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Chantays" title="The Chantays">The Chantays</a>**</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Children_of_Rain" title="Children of Rain">Children of Rain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Clark" title="Roy Clark">Roy Clark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanford_Clark" title="Sanford Clark">Sanford Clark</a>**</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Colours_(band)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Colours (band) (page does not exist)">Colours</a><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Cornelius" title="Helen Cornelius">Helen Cornelius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Cornell" title="Don Cornell">Don Cornell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_Costa" title="Eddie Costa">Eddie Costa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Counts" title="The Counts">The Counts</a></li> <li>Brian Collins</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Crosby" title="Bob Crosby">Bob Crosby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mac_Curtis" title="Mac Curtis">Mac Curtis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Velva_Darnell" title="Velva Darnell">Velva Darnell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Dartells" title="The Dartells">The Dartells</a>**</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Dee&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jimmy Dee (page does not exist)">Jimmy Dee</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> </td> <td width="30">  </td> <td valign="top"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Dell-Vikings" class="mw-redirect" title="The Dell-Vikings">The Dell-Vikings</a>**</li> <li>Frank DeRosa</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lonnie_Donegan" title="Lonnie Donegan">Lonnie Donegan</a>**</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Dorsey" title="Jimmy Dorsey">Jimmy Dorsey</a></li> <li>Jim Doval and the Gauchos</li> <li>Barbara Eden</li> <li>The Fairmount Singers</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donna_Fargo" title="Donna Fargo">Donna Fargo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fear_Itself_(band)" title="Fear Itself (band)">Fear Itself</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freddy_Fender" title="Freddy Fender">Freddy Fender</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Fina" title="Jack Fina">Jack Fina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Fireballs" title="The Fireballs">The Fireballs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_Fisher" title="Eddie Fisher">Eddie Fisher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myron_Floren" title="Myron Floren">Myron Floren</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brian_Foley_(singer)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brian Foley (singer) (page does not exist)">Brian Foley</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Fontane_Sisters" title="The Fontane Sisters">The Fontane Sisters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Four_Lads" title="The Four Lads">The Four Lads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Frawley" title="William Frawley">William Frawley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Gaddy" title="Bob Gaddy">Bob Gaddy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cecil_Gant" title="Cecil Gant">Cecil Gant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jan_Garber" title="Jan Garber">Jan Garber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Althea_Gibson" title="Althea Gibson">Althea Gibson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Gilmer" class="mw-redirect" title="Jimmy Gilmer">Jimmy Gilmer</a> & <a href="/wiki/The_Fireballs" title="The Fireballs">The Fireballs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Griffin_Brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="The Griffin Brothers">The Griffin Brothers</a> featuring <a href="/wiki/Margie_Day" title="Margie Day">Margie Day</a></li> <li>The Griffin Brothers featuring <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Brown_(singer)" title="Tommy Brown (singer)">Tommy Brown</a></li> <li>The Griffin Brothers</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bonnie_Guitar" title="Bonnie Guitar">Bonnie Guitar</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Jack_Halloran" title="Jack Halloran">Jack Halloran</a> Singers</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hamilton_Streetcar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hamilton Streetcar (page does not exist)">Hamilton Streetcar</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Head" title="Roy Head">Roy Head</a><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Milt_Herth_(organist)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Milt Herth (organist) (page does not exist)">Milt Herth (organist)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Hilltoppers_(band)" title="The Hilltoppers (band)">The Hilltoppers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivory_Joe_Hunter" title="Ivory Joe Hunter">Ivory Joe Hunter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tab_Hunter" title="Tab Hunter">Tab Hunter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gunilla_Hutton" title="Gunilla Hutton">Gunilla Hutton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Illusion_(band)" title="The Illusion (band)">The Illusion</a> (Steed)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tommy_Jackson_(fiddler)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tommy Jackson (fiddler) (page does not exist)">Tommy Jackson</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_James" title="Harry James">Harry James</a></li> <li>Denise Jannah</li> <li>Carol Jarvis</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danny_Kaye" title="Danny Kaye">Danny Kaye</a></li> <li>Sandra Kaylor</li></ul> </td> <td width="30">  </td> <td valign="top"> <ul><li>Sylvia and the Five Panthers</li> <li>Dr. Charles Kendall</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Kendalls" title="The Kendalls">The Kendalls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Usher" title="Gary Usher">Gary Usher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Kerouac" title="Jack Kerouac">Jack Kerouac</a><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anita_Kerr" title="Anita Kerr">Anita Kerr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andy_Kim_(singer)" title="Andy Kim (singer)">Andy Kim</a> (Steed)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonny_Knight" title="Sonny Knight">Sonny Knight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Lennon_Sisters" title="The Lennon Sisters">The Lennon Sisters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wally_Lewis" title="Wally Lewis">Wally Lewis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberace" title="Liberace">Liberace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Lowe" title="Jim Lowe">Jim Lowe</a></li> <li>Warren Luening</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robin_Luke" title="Robin Luke">Robin Luke</a>**</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maddie_%26_Tae" title="Maddie & Tae">Maddie & Tae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Maddox" title="Johnny Maddox">Johnny Maddox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Mandrell" title="Barbara Mandrell">Barbara Mandrell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Martin_(entertainer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tony Martin (entertainer)">Tony Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wink_Martindale" title="Wink Martindale">Wink Martindale</a></li> <li>Wink Martindale & Robin Ward</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robin_McNamara" title="Robin McNamara">Robin McNamara</a> (Steed)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Mills_Brothers" title="The Mills Brothers">The Mills Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Minor_(actor)" title="Mike Minor (actor)">Mike Minor</a></li> <li>Mint Tattoo</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaughn_Monroe" title="Vaughn Monroe">Vaughn Monroe</a></li> <li>Tiny Morrie</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greg_Morris" title="Greg Morris">Greg Morris</a></li> <li>Mount Rushmore</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Narz" title="Jack Narz">Jack Narz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Newman" class="mw-redirect" title="Jimmy Newman">Jimmy Newman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Nimoy" title="Leonard Nimoy">Leonard Nimoy</a><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ken_Nordine" title="Ken Nordine">Ken Nordine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nervous_Norvus" title="Nervous Norvus">Nervous Norvus</a>**</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Novak" title="Larry Novak">Larry Novak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tommy_Overstreet" title="Tommy Overstreet">Tommy Overstreet</a></li> <li>Bunny Paul</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_Peabody" title="Eddie Peabody">Eddie Peabody</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Phantom" title="The Phantom">The Phantom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Priddy" title="Nancy Priddy">Nancy Priddy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Prima" title="Louis Prima">Louis Prima</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeanne_Pruett" title="Jeanne Pruett">Jeanne Pruett</a></li> <li>Bobby Rand</li></ul> </td> <td width="30">  </td> <td valign="top"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jimmie_Rodgers_(pop_singer)" title="Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer)">Jimmie Rodgers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitch_Ryder" title="Mitch Ryder">Mitch Ryder</a> (DynoVoice) (catalog now controlled by <a href="/wiki/Rhino_Records" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhino Records">Rhino Records</a>/<a href="/wiki/Warner_Music_Group" title="Warner Music Group">Warner Music Group</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wesley_Ryles" title="John Wesley Ryles">John Wesley Ryles</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=San_Francisco_Hub_Caps&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="San Francisco Hub Caps (page does not exist)">San Francisco Hub Caps</a> (pseudonym for George Wright - album made using percussion section of Pasadena Studio pipe organ)<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lalo_Schifrin" title="Lalo Schifrin">Lalo Schifrin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Serry_Sr." title="John Serry Sr.">John Serry Sr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Sharpe" title="Ray Sharpe">Ray Sharpe</a></li> <li>The Shenandoah Trio</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Shields" class="mw-redirect" title="The Shields">The Shields</a>**</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Shires_(duo)" title="The Shires (duo)">The Shires</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Six_Fat_Dutchmen" title="Six Fat Dutchmen">Six Fat Dutchmen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keely_Smith" title="Keely Smith">Keely Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margo_Smith" title="Margo Smith">Margo Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharon_Smith_(musician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sharon Smith (musician) (page does not exist)">Sharon Smith</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jo-El_Sonnier" title="Jo-El Sonnier">Jo-El Sonnier</a></li> <li>Jimmy Spellman</li> <li>The Split Level</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Stampley" title="Joe Stampley">Joe Stampley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dodie_Stevens" title="Dodie Stevens">Dodie Stevens</a></li> <li>Val Stöecklein</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gale_Storm" title="Gale Storm">Gale Storm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_String-A-Longs" title="The String-A-Longs">The String-A-Longs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Sunshine_Boys" title="The Sunshine Boys">The Sunshine Boys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Surfaris" title="The Surfaris">The Surfaris</a>**</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hank_Thompson_(musician)" title="Hank Thompson (musician)">Hank Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diana_Trask" title="Diana Trask">Diana Trask</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Traubel" title="Helen Traubel">Helen Traubel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Tyler" title="Steven Tyler">Steven Tyler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leroy_Van_Dyke" title="Leroy Van Dyke">Leroy Van Dyke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Vaughn" title="Billy Vaughn">Billy Vaughn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robin_Ward_(singer)" title="Robin Ward (singer)">Robin Ward</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Welk" title="Lawrence Welk">Lawrence Welk</a></li> <li>The Lawrence Welk Glee Club</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drake_White" title="Drake White">Drake White</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Whiting" title="Margaret Whiting">Margaret Whiting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Williams" title="Don Williams">Don Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Easy_Williams&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Easy Williams (page does not exist)">Easy Williams</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lew_Williams" title="Lew Williams">Lew Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mac_Wiseman" title="Mac Wiseman">Mac Wiseman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Work" title="Jimmy Work">Jimmy Work</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Wright_(organist)" title="George Wright (organist)">George Wright</a></li> <li>Dr. Norman Wright</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yankee_Dollar" class="mw-redirect" title="Yankee Dollar">Yankee Dollar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barry_Young_(musician)" title="Barry Young (musician)">Barry Young</a></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dot_Records&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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href="http://www.bsnpubs.com/dot/dotstory.html">"Randy Wood: The Dot Records Story, Part 1"</a>. <i>Bsnpubs.com</i>. May 6, 2003<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 29,</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Bsnpubs.com&rft.atitle=Randy+Wood%3A+The+Dot+Records+Story%2C+Part+1&rft.date=2003-05-06&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bsnpubs.com%2Fdot%2Fdotstory.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADot+Records" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bsnpubs.com/dot/dotb.html">"Dot Album Discography, Part 2 (1955-1960)"</a>. <i>bsnpubs.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 29,</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Bsnpubs.com&rft.atitle=Dot+Album+Discography%2C+Part+6+%281971%E2%80%931977%29&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbsnpubs.com%2Fdot%2Fdotf.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADot+Records" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=KSQEAAAAMBAJ&q=1985+%2B+mca+%2B+nashville+%2B+dot&pg=PT90"><i>Billboard - Google Books</i></a>. October 12, 1985<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 2,</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Billboard+-+Google+Books&rft.date=1985-10-12&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DKSQEAAAAMBAJ%26q%3D1985%2B%252B%2Bmca%2B%252B%2Bnashville%2B%252B%2Bdot%26pg%3DPT90&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADot+Records" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRau2014" class="citation web cs1">Rau, Nate (March 24, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/industries/music/2014/03/24/big-machine-resurrects-dot-records-name/6830685/">"Big Machine resurrects Dot Records name"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tennessean" title="The Tennessean">The Tennessean</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 27,</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Tennessean&rft.atitle=Big+Machine+resurrects+Dot+Records+name&rft.date=2014-03-24&rft.aulast=Rau&rft.aufirst=Nate&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tennessean.com%2Fstory%2Fmoney%2Findustries%2Fmusic%2F2014%2F03%2F24%2Fbig-machine-resurrects-dot-records-name%2F6830685%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADot+Records" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140715223735/http://www.bigmachinelabelgroup.com/story/news-homepage/big-machine-label-group-and-republic-records-revive-legendary-dot-records">"Republic Records Revive Legendary Dot Records"</a>. <i>Bigmachinelabelgroup.com</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 29,</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Bigmachinelabelgroup.com&rft.atitle=Republic+Records+Revive+Legendary+Dot+Records&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigmachinelabelgroup.com%2Fstory%2Fnews-homepage%2Fbig-machine-label-group-and-republic-records-revive-legendary-dot-records&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADot+Records" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bigmachinelabelgroup.com/story/news-homepage-dot_records/dot-records-announces-maddie-and-tae-as-inaugural-act-on-roster">DOT RECORDS ANNOUNCES MADDIE & TAE AS INAUGURAL ACT ON ROSTER</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140712000805/http://www.bigmachinelabelgroup.com/story/news-homepage-dot_records/dot-records-announces-maddie-and-tae-as-inaugural-act-on-roster">Archived</a> July 12, 2014, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> <i>Retrieved June 11, 2014</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.musicrow.com/2014/06/bmlgs-dot-records-signs-drake-white/">"BMLG's Dot Records Signs Drake White"</a>. <i>Musicrow.com</i>. 20 June 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 25,</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Musicrow.com&rft.atitle=BMLG%27s+Dot+Records+Signs+Drake+White&rft.date=2014-06-20&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.musicrow.com%2F2014%2F06%2Fbmlgs-dot-records-signs-drake-white%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADot+Records" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/6524266/steven-tyler-signs-with-big-machine-label-group">"Steven Tyler Signs With Big Machine Label Group"</a>. <i>Billboard.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 25,</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Billboard.com&rft.atitle=Steven+Tyler+Signs+With+Big+Machine+Label+Group&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.billboard.com%2Fbiz%2Farticles%2F6524266%2Fsteven-tyler-signs-with-big-machine-label-group&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADot+Records" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFUnterberger" class="citation web cs1">Unterberger, Richie. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/p12588">"Allmusic.com"</a>. <a href="/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 20,</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Allmusic.com&rft.pub=AllMusic&rft.aulast=Unterberger&rft.aufirst=Richie&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.allmusic.com%2Fartist%2Fp12588&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADot+Records" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://myspace.com/royheadandthetraits">"The Story of Roy Head and The Traits"</a>. <i>Myspace.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 20,</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Myspace.com&rft.atitle=The+Story+of+Roy+Head+and+The+Traits&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fmyspace.com%2Froyheadandthetraits&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADot+Records" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBirmingham2006" class="citation web cs1">Birmingham, Jed (March 22, 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/beat-vinyl">"Beat Vinyl: Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker"</a>. <i>Realitystudio.org</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">November 14,</span> 2007</span>. <q>The ultimate Beat Generation collectible on vinyl might be Jack Kerouac's <i>Poetry of the Beat Generation</i> on Dot Records.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Realitystudio.org&rft.atitle=Beat+Vinyl%3A+Reports+from+the+Bibliographic+Bunker&rft.date=2006-03-22&rft.aulast=Birmingham&rft.aufirst=Jed&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Frealitystudio.org%2Fbibliographic-bunker%2Fbeat-vinyl&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADot+Records" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDeMara2015" class="citation news cs1">DeMara, Bruce (February 27, 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2015/02/27/five-things-you-didnt-know-about-leonard-nimoy.html">"Five things you don't know about Leonard Nimoy"</a>. <i>The Toronto Star</i>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0319-0781">0319-0781</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 25,</span> 2016</span>. <q>Leonard Nimoy, who died Feb. 27 at the age of 83, was more than his most famous character, Spock. He also wrote poetry, sang and loved photography.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Toronto+Star&rft.atitle=Five+things+you+don%27t+know+about+Leonard+Nimoy&rft.date=2015-02-27&rft.issn=0319-0781&rft.aulast=DeMara&rft.aufirst=Bruce&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thestar.com%2Fentertainment%2F2015%2F02%2F27%2Ffive-things-you-didnt-know-about-leonard-nimoy.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADot+Records" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dot_Records&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bsnpubs.com/dot/dotstory.html">The Dot Records 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