Kama Sutra Records

{{Short description|US record label}} {{more citations needed|date=June 2016}} {{Infobox record label  | name = Kama Sutra Records | image_name =  | image_size =  | image_bg =  | parent = Sony Music Group | founded = {{Start date|1964}} | defunct = 1993 | founder = Artie Ripp<br />Hy Mizrahi<br />Phil Steinberg | status = | distributor = Legacy Recordings | genre = Pop, jazz, blues, soul, rock, doo-wop | country = United States | location = | website = }}

'''Kama Sutra Records''' was started in 1964 by Artie Ripp, Hy Mizrahi, and Phil Steinberg as Kama Sutra Productions, a production house.<ref>{{cite magazine | title=Col., K-S Pact Reflects Inroads | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mSgEAAAAMBAJ&q=artie+ripp&pg=PA4 | magazine=Billboard | page=4 | date=February 13, 1965}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine | title=MGM Will Handle Kama-Sutra | magazine=Billboard | date=June 19, 1965 | page=3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TCkEAAAAMBAJ&q=Kama-Sutra&pg=PA63}}</ref> The ''Kama Sutra'' is an ancient Sanskrit text.<ref>Alan Betrock ''Girl groups: the story of a sound'' 1982 p.148 "Back on the East Coast, Kama-Sutra Productions turned out a series of girl-group records with Stacy Cane, The Juliettes, Ann Marie, The Petites, and The Pussycats."</ref>

In 1965, the company was joined by Art Kass and the record label itself was started.<ref>{{cite book | editor-last=Larkin | editor-first=Colin | title=The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music | editor-link=Colin Larkin | publisher=Guinness Publishing | date=1995 | edition=2nd | isbn=0-85112-662-6 | page=2249 | volume=3 | url=https://archive.org/details/guinnessencyclop0003unse/page/2249/mode/1up}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Dannen | first=Fredric | title=Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business | publisher=Vintage Books | url=https://archive.org/details/hitmenpowerbroke0000dann/page/164/mode/1up | date=1990 | isbn=0-679-73061-3 | page=164}}</ref> A distribution deal with MGM Records was later signed, which lasted from 1965 until 1969. From 1969 onward, distribution was then handled by co-owned Buddah Records.

The record company ceased in mid-1976 but restarted in 1981 as '''Sutra Records'''. Under this moniker, Kass marketed and distributed Fever Records, Blue Dog Records, Baila Records, Becket Records, and signed and recorded the Cover Girls, Gene Vincent, the Fat Boys, Victor Willis, and many more before the company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 1993. The 1965–1976 Kama Sutra catalogue is now owned by Sony Music Entertainment and managed by Legacy Recordings. The 1981–1993 Sutra catalogue, with the exception of the Fat Boys, is controlled by Unidisc Music.

==Kama Sutra artists== {{div col|colwidth=25em}} *Terry Black & Laurel Ward *Bobby Bloom *Brewer & Shipley *Gordon Brisker *Charlie Daniels Band *Dust *Exuma *Fat Boys *The Fifth Dimension *Flamin' Groovies *Gene Vincent *Gunhill Road *Hackamore Brick *The Innocence *The Jaggerz *The Lovin' Spoonful *Menudo *NRBQ *Ocean *The Pussycats *Revival *Royal Cash *Scratch *The Sermon *Sha Na Na *The Shangri-las *Sopwith Camel *Stories *The Trade Winds *Victor Willis {{div col end}}

==See also== * Lists of record labels

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.bsnpubs.com/buddah/buddahstory.html The Kama Sutra / Buddah Records Story]

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