Essex Records

Essex Records was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1951 by David Miller primarily to record contemporary country and western, rhythm and blues as well as jazz and gospel. Jack Howard was the promotion manager. The label had little popular success. They issued a 1954 single called "Oh, Mein Papa". Later they became known for the release of the early Bill Haley & His Comets recordings such as "Rock the Joint" and "Crazy Man Crazy" the latter of which is the first rock and roll recording to make the American record charts when it was released in 1953.cite book
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The label also released the first 12-inch album of rock and roll music with its 1954 Haley compilation "Rock with Bill Haley and the Comets". Haley's first big hit, "Crazy Man, Crazy" was followed by two other chart hits, "Fractured", and "Live It Up". In 1954, Haley left Essex for Decca Records] . The colour of the Essex label was orange with the print in black. [cite web
url=http://www.bsnpubs.com/miller/essex.html
title=Essex Album Discography
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accessdate=2007-04-21] cite book
first=Jim
last= Dawson
authorlink=
coauthors=
year= 2005
title= Rock Around the Clock
edition=
publisher= Backbeat Books
location= San Francisco
pages= pp 46-56
id=ISBN 0-87930-829-X ]

ee also

*List of record labels

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