Billy Eckstine was also a big seller for the label as were The Ravens.
Eileen Barton had a hit with "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake", which was No.
[1] Working as A&R men were Lee Magid, Bob Shad, Jesse Stone and Herb Abramson.
Abramson went to Jubilee and then co-founded Atlantic with Ahmet Ertegun.
From the beginning Dick Thomas was their foremost country and western artist, best remembered for his "Sioux City Sue" (1945).