{{Short description|American record label}} {{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music --> | name = Longhorn Records | image = Longhorn505ABillyGray.jpg | image_size = <!-- size --> | caption = | parent = <!-- parent company, such as "Warner Music Group" --> | founded = {{start date|1957}} | founder = Dewey Groom | fate = <!-- explain the reason of the closing--> | defunct = 1969 | status = Defunct | distributor = <!-- distributors, separate with commas or <br /> --> | genre = Country | country = U.S. | location = Dallas, Texas }}
'''Longhorn Records''' was an American country music record label based in Dallas, Texas. The label was founded in September, 1957.<ref name=bb67>{{cite magazine |last=Sachs |first=Bill |title=Country Music Corner |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6EQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28 |magazine=Billboard |page=28 |date=September 19, 1964}}</ref> Dewey Groom acquired the local Dallas label in 1960 in order to further promote acts that were appearing at the Longhorn Ballroom.<ref name=bb60-1>{{cite magazine |last=Sachs |first=Bill |title=Folk Talent and Tunes: Around the Horn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oR0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA96 |magazine=Billboard |date=26 September 1960 |page=96}}</ref> Bob Wills made his last recordings with the Texas Playboys for Longhorn in 1964 and 1965.<ref name=wills>{{cite book |last1=Townsend |first1=Charles|last2=Townsend |first2=Charles R. |date=1986 |title=San Antonio Rose: The Life and Music of Bob Wills |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kc7yZGTFXUgC&pg=PA38 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |pages=278–279 |isbn=9780252013621}}</ref> Wills made another session with Longhorn, post Playboys, in which the label allowed Wills to make an album of pure folk music, something Wills had long wanted to do but which had never been supported by any of his previous record labels.<ref name=wills /> One of Longhorn's biggest successes was by Phil Baugh, whose song "Country Guitar" appeared at #16 on the Country singles chart, and the accompanying album reach #4 on Billboard's Top Country Albums. Groom closed the label in 1969 in order to devote more of his energies into the Ballroom.<ref name=bb69>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Groom Turns to Ballroom |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zygEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA38 |magazine=Billboard |page=38 |date=March 15, 1969}}</ref>
==Artists== * Clay Allen<ref name=bb60-1 /> * Phil Baugh * Rozena Eads<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Sachs |first=Bill |title=Country Music Corner |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qCgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA32 |magazine=Billboard |page=32 |date=June 12, 1965}}</ref> * Al Gliva<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Sachs |first=Bill |title=Folk Talent and Tunes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j0UEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT60 |magazine=Billboard |page=57 |date=September 29, 1962}}</ref> * Billy Gray<ref name=bb60-1 /> * Janet McBride<ref name=bb69 /> * Vern Stovall<ref name=bb69 /> * Bob Wills
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Category:Record labels established in 1957 Category:Record labels disestablished in 1969 Category:1957 establishments in Texas Category:1969 disestablishments in Texas Category:American country music record labels