It made arrangements with the American Record Corporation to issue material from ARC labels in Japan.
Many of the other Lucky Records issues are surprisingly eclectic, including recordings by Eddie Condon, Red Allen, Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington, but also rural southern blues records otherwise unissued outside of the United States in the era (and in the US mostly restricted to labels catering to the African American market).
It is unclear if this material was specifically selected, or if some was simply chosen at random by someone at either Lucky or ARC.
Lucky Records of the 1950s was a Los Angeles–based label run by John Dolphin.
Lucky Records of the 1990s, described by one website as "Canadian surf and rock'n'roll", is based in Seattle, Washington, US.