# Moby Dick Records

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**Moby Dick Records** was a small disco record label founded by Boys Town Gang producers Bill Motley (DJ Bill Motley) and Victor Swedosh in 1980.[1][2] Its headquarters were located at 573 Castro Street, [San Francisco, California](/source/San_Francisco), United States.[2] Swedosh also owned the Moby Dick Bar (opened in 1977) located in the [Castro district](/source/Castro_District,_San_Francisco).[1][3]

The label was known for "The Moby Dick Sound" and contributing to "Frisco Disco". Its famous acts included [Boys Town Gang](/source/Boys_Town_Gang), [Yvonne Elliman](/source/Yvonne_Elliman), [Loverde](/source/Frank_Loverde) and [Patrick Cowley](/source/Patrick_Cowley). Moby Dick also distributed C & M Records, as well as associating with the late night partiers from the [Trocadero Transfer](/source/Trocadero_Transfer), a popular disco nightclub at the time.[4]

“In fact, Moby Dick Records, the owners, they were some of the first to go too, from AIDS. They were a big up-and-coming record label, big competition with us, and they disappeared.”

— John Hedges, of [Megatone Records](/source/Megatone_Records)

Moby Dick Records closed in 1984, after seven of its ten core employees died of AIDS.[5][6]

## References

1. Shapiro, Peter (2013). [*Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco*](https://books.google.com/books?id=hT86CQAAQBAJ). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-1466894129. Retrieved 2017-06-30.

1. Kuroff, Barbara N. (1982). [*Songwriter's Market*](https://books.google.com/books?id=5Ju0AAAAIAAJ). Writer's Digest Books, University of California. p. 241. ISBN 0898790867. Retrieved 2017-06-30.

1. Downing, Shane (2016-09-26). ["Now A Legacy Business, Castro's Moby Dick Expresses Concern Over Fund's Implementation"](http://hoodline.com/2016/09/now-a-legacy-business-castro-s-moby-dick-expresses-concern-over-fund-s-implementation). *Hoodline*. Retrieved 2017-06-30.

1. Gamson, Joshua (2013). *The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco*. New York: Henry Holt and Company. p. 206. ISBN 9781466850163.

1. Luce, Henry Robinson (1987). *Time Magazine*. Vol. 130. Time Inc. p. 196.

1. Dayal, Geeta (2016-10-26). ["San Fran-disco: how Patrick Cowley and Sylvester changed dance music forever"](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/26/dance-music-san-francisco-patrick-cowley-sylvester). *The Guardian*. [ISSN 0261-3077](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0261-3077). Retrieved 2017-06-30.

## External links

- [Website](https://web.archive.org/web/20100220110838/http://mobydickrecords.net/)
- [Discomusic](http://www.discomusic.com/labels-more/7891_0_9_0_C/)

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