# Route 66 Records

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{{Short description|Swedish record label}}
{{Unreferenced|date=December 2012}}
{{infobox record label
 | image = 
 | parent = Mr R&B Record Sales
 | founded = 1977
 | founder = Jonas Bernholm
 | distributor = Swift
 | genre = [Rhythm and Blues](/source/Rhythm_and_Blues)
 | country = [Sweden](/source/Sweden)
 | url = 
}}

'''Route 66 Records''' is a Swedish [record production company](/source/record_label) founded by [Jonas Bernholm](/source/Jonas_Bernholm), that reissues less well-known [rhythm and blues](/source/rhythm_and_blues) recordings. Their motto is "The Highway To R&B". They are known to have produced the following [compilation](/source/Compilation_album) albums:

*KIX-1: [Floyd Dixon](/source/Floyd_Dixon): ''Opportunity Blues''
*:Texas-West Coast R&B and Blues (1948–61)
*KIX-2: [Roy Brown](/source/Roy_Brown_(blues_musician)): ''Laughing But Crying''
*:New Orleans|Texas-West Coast R&B and Blues (1947–59)
*KIX-3: [Wynonie Harris](/source/Wynonie_Harris): ''Mr. Blues Is Coming To Town''
*:Blues and R&B Supreme Blues shouter (1946–54)
*KIX-4: [Ivory Joe Hunter](/source/Ivory_Joe_Hunter): ''7th Street Boogie''
*:West Coast Jump Blues and Boogie (1945–50)
*KIX-5: [Charles Brown](/source/Charles_Brown_(musician)): ''Sunny Road''
*:Texas-West Coast Club Blues featuring Charles with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers, and New Orleans R&B (1945–60)
*KIX-6: [Roy Brown](/source/Roy_Brown_(blues_musician)): ''[Good Rocking Tonight](/source/Good_Rocking_Tonight_(album))''
*:Legendary recordings, Vol.2 (1947–54)
*KIX-7: [Amos Milburn](/source/Amos_Milburn): ''Just One More Drink'' (1946–54)
*KIX-8: [Paul Gayten](/source/Paul_Gayten) & [Annie Laurie](/source/Annie_Laurie_(musician)): ''Creole Gal'' (1947–57)
*KIX-9: [Roy Hawkins](/source/Roy_Hawkins): ''Why Do Everything Happen to Me?'' (1949–54)
*KIX-10: [Little Willie Littlefield](/source/Little_Willie_Littlefield): ''It's Midnight'' (1949–57)
*KIX-11: [Floyd Dixon](/source/Floyd_Dixon): ''Houston Jump'' (1947–60)
*KIX-12: [Jimmy McCracklin](/source/Jimmy_McCracklin): ''Rockin' Man'' (1945–56)
*KIX-13: [Billy Wright](/source/Billy_Wright_(musician)): ''Stacked Deck'' (1949–54)
*KIX-14: [Bull Moose Jackson](/source/Bull_Moose_Jackson): ''Big Fat Mamas Are Back in Style Again'' (1945–56)
*KIX-15: [Ivory Joe Hunter](/source/Ivory_Joe_Hunter): ''Jumping at the Dew Drop'' (1947–52)
*KIX-16: [Ruth Brown](/source/Ruth_Brown): ''Sweet Baby of Mine'' (1949–56)
*KIX-17: [Charles Brown](/source/Charles_Brown_(musician)) w/ [Johnny Moore's Three Blazers](/source/Johnny_Moore's_Three_Blazers): ''Race Track Blues'' (1945–56)
*KIX-18: [Jimmy Liggins](/source/Jimmy_Liggins): ''I Can't Stop It'' (1947–52)
*KIX-19: [Larry Darnell](/source/Larry_Darnell): ''I'll Get Along Somehow'' (1949–57)
*KIX-20: [Wynonie Harris](/source/Wynonie_Harris): ''Oh Babe!'' (1945–54)
*KIX-21: [Amos Milburn](/source/Amos_Milburn): ''Rock, Rock, Rock'' (1947–57)
*KIX-22: [Percy Mayfield](/source/Percy_Mayfield): ''The Voice Within'' (1949–56)
*KIX-23: [Peppermint Harris](/source/Peppermint_Harris): ''I Got Loaded'' (1950–53)
*KIX-24: [Little Caesar](/source/Little_Caesar_(singer)): ''Lying Woman... Goodbye Baby'' (1952/3)
*KIX-25: [Ivory Joe Hunter](/source/Ivory_Joe_Hunter): ''I Had a Girl'' (1946–52)
*KIX-26: [Roy Brown](/source/Roy_Brown_(blues_musician)): ''I Feel that Young Man's Rhythm'' (1947–54)
*KIX-27: [Floyd Dixon](/source/Floyd_Dixon): ''Empty Stocking Blues'' (1947–53)
*KIX-28: [Amos Milburn](/source/Amos_Milburn): ''Let's Rock a While'' (1946–54)
*KIX-29: [Jimmy McCracklin](/source/Jimmy_McCracklin): ''I'm Gonna Have My Fun'' (1949–57) 
*KIX-30: [Wynonie Harris](/source/Wynonie_Harris): ''Playful Baby'' (1945–54)
*KIX-31: [Jimmy Witherspoon](/source/Jimmy_Witherspoon): ''Hey Mr. Landlord'' (1945–56)
*KIX-32: [Joseph August](/source/Joseph_August): ''Rock My Soul'' (1949–54)
*KIX-33: [Johnny Moore's Blazers](/source/Johnny_Moore's_Three_Blazers): ''Why, Johnny, Why?'' (1949–56)
*KIX-34: [Charles Brown](/source/Charles_Brown_(musician)): ''Let's Have a Ball'' (1945–61)
*KIX-35: [Calvin Boze](/source/Calvin_Boze): ''Choo Choo's Bringing My Baby Home'' (1949–52)
*KIX-1200: Various artists: ''Hunter Hancock Presents Blues & Rhythm Midnight Matinee'' (1951)

==See also==
* [List of record labels](/source/List_of_record_labels)

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Category:Swedish record labels
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