[1] Valiant Records was formed in 1960 in California, by singer−songwriter Barry De Vorzon and manager Billy Sherman.
They debuted on Valiant (which had just ended a brief distribution stint with Four Star Television, the distributor of such shows as Burke's Law and Honey West) with a non-charting version of "One Too Many Mornings."
The next single records—"Along Comes Mary," "Cherish," "Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies," and "No Fair At All"—helped establish The Association as one of the premier Sunshine Pop groups of the 1960s.
Some numbers from 6002 to 6013 were shared with Montclare Records, a very short-lived Warner subsidiary, as well as several one-shot labels such as Elloma and Burbank.
Valiant Records was also the name of an unrelated label headquartered variously in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and Bronx, New York, that re-released some albums originally issued on the Somerset Records label, largely for inexpensive supermarket and variety store distribution.