Amherst Records

{{short description|American record label}}

{{Infobox record label

| name = Amherst Records

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| parent = Tommy Boy Records

| founded = 1957

| founder = Leonard Silver

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| distributor = Self-distributed

| genre = various

| country = USA

| location = Buffalo, New York

| website = {{url|www.amherstrecords.com}}

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Amherst Records is an American independent music label, founded in 1957 by the late Leonard Silver, who later on founded Buffalo-based music store Record Theatre.{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jhAEAAAAMBAJ|title=Mile Posts|magazine=Billboard |volume=116 |issue=16|pages=76|date=April 17, 2004|accessdate=May 12, 2020|via=Google Books}}{{cite web|url=https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2017/03/12/rochester-native-leonard-silver-founded-record-theatre/99109744/ |title=Leonard Silver, record mogul, dies at 90 |website=Democratandchronicle.com |date= |accessdate=2020-03-01}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bmhof.org/inductees-s/lenny-silver.html |title=Lenny Silver |website=Bmhof.org |date=2017-03-10 |accessdate=2020-03-01}} In 1984, Amherst acquired the back catalogs of Avco Records.