Records was an American, Chicago based independent record label, founded by businessman Joe Brown and bluesman St. Louis Jimmy Oden in 1949.
In 1952, the label's recording of "Five Long Years" by Eddie Boyd became a hit and reached number one in the US Billboard R&B chart.
Records worldwide rights were acquired by 43 North Broadway, LLC[clarification needed] in 2015.
included: Eddie Boyd, Willie Cobbs, Floyd Jones, King Kolax, J.
B. Lenoir, Snooky Pryor, Johnny Shines, and Sunnyland Slim, There was a similarly named, but unrelated, record label located in Louisiana in 1950.