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Freedom (record label)

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Parent company
  
Liberty Records

Genre
  
Various

Date founded
  
1958

Country of origin
  
United States of America

Status
  
Defunct (1959)

Location
  
Hollywood, California

Distributor
  
Liberty

Freedom was a short lived subsidiary label of Liberty Records based in Hollywood, California.

History

Liberty launched its first subsidiary, Freedom Records, during the summer of 1958 and Jerry Capehart was hired as A&R man. One of the first artists to be signed was Johnny Burnette. Eddie Cochran provided lead guitar on some of the singles that came out in 1958/59. Freedom closed down in the summer of 1959.

References

Freedom (record label) Wikipedia