{{Short description|British record company and label}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Use British English|date=September 2013}} {{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music --> | name = 77 Records | founded = {{start date|1957}} | founder = Doug Dobell | genre = Folk, blues, jazz | country = UK }}
'''77 Records''' was a British record company and label established in 1957 by Doug Dobell,<ref name="New Grove">{{cite book|last1=Gardner|first1=Mark|editor1-last=Kernfeld|editor1-first=Barry|editor1-link=Barry Kernfeld|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz|date=2002|publisher=Grove's Dictionaries Inc.|location=New York|isbn=1-56159-284-6|page=547|volume=3|edition=2nd}}</ref> the proprietor of 'Dobell's Jazz Record Shop' at 77 Charing Cross Road, London. The label specialised in folk, blues, and jazz.
Several British jazz musicians, such as Acker Bilk, Bruce Turner, Tubby Hayes, Les Condon, Dick Morrissey, Brian Lemon and Buck Clayton, recorded on the label in the mid-1960s.<ref name=wirz>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wirz.de/music/77.htm|title=Illustrated 77 Records discography|website=Wirz.de|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>
British rhythm and blues performers such as Alexis Korner also recorded for 77 Records, as did many American artists. 77 Records distributed the releases of US labels, including recordings by Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Lightnin' Hopkins, Scrapper Blackwell, Reverend Gary Davis, Robert Pete Williams, Big Joe Williams, Sunnyland Slim, Joe Turner, Little Brother Montgomery, Yank Rachell, and Sleepy John Estes.<ref name=wirz/>
In 1960, Dobell started a short-lived spin-off label, Folklore, which released albums by Steve Benbow, Dominic Behan, Dick Fariña and Eric Von Schmidt, and Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner, amongst others.<ref name=wirz/> A 1963 album by Dick Fariña and Eric Von Schmidt, released on Folklore, featured "Blind Boy Grunt", alias Bob Dylan, on harmonica.<ref name=wirz/> The label also reissued recordings licensed from independent American record labels such as Arhoolie.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.technobeat.com/HUCKER2/HIP.html|title=From the Hip|website=Technobeat.com|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>
==See also== * Lists of record labels
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{discogs label|77 Records}}
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Category:British jazz record labels Category:Blues record labels Category:Folk record labels