CHELSEA RECORDS
Chelsea Records was an American-based record company founded by musician, songwriter, and record producer Wes Farrell in 1972. Within its first four months, it released its first gold single, “Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast” by Wayne Newton. In addition to Newton, Chelsea featured a number of new and accomplished artists like Tommy Boyce, Jim Gilstrap, Lulu, and Rick Springfield. RCA Records originally handled distribution for Chelsea, but Farrell switched to independent distributors in 1974, and later did its own distribution. Ultimately, RCA absorbed the label in 1977. (More from Wikipedia)
Les Sinners came together a third time in 1975; the “Les” is back, but the last trappings of Les Sinners as a garage-rock band had fallen away in their three 1975 singles on Celebration Records, plus an album in the same year on Chelsea Records, called ?. Both English-language and French-language versions of ? were released.
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