- Regency Records
Regency Records is a
record label founded by Georgia record producer and TV/RadiosyndicatorJohnny Carter and North Georgia disc jockeyLamar Gravitt in 1965. Regency Records was originally a part of the C-R-Co (Cherokeeland Recording Company), based in Calhoun, GA near the 1800s national capital of the Cherokee Indians.The label operated as a part of Jay Enterprises when Carter moved to Tennessee in 1966, and became a part of Cherokee Album Corporation when Carter returned to Georgia in 1968.Regency released a series of singles, and one album in 1972 by a Tennessee garage bandNeutral Spirits . The self-titled album by the group is a highly prized collector's item worldwide, because most copies of the disc were destroyed in a fire. Fortunately, the original analog master tape was preserved by the producer, and has been released on CD, as well as by Florida re-release label GearFab.Regency would later be the home of the Dutch rock band Diesel in the early 1980s, releasing a pair of this band's albums, the first of which included the internationally successful hit, "Sausalito Summernight."
Regency is now a division of
National Recording Corporation , and records a mixture of genres in one of the largest state-of-the-art audio/video soundstages in the State of Georgia.*
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