End Records

{{Short description|American record label}}

{{For|the label founded by Andreas Katsambas in 1998|The End Records}}

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End Records was a record label founded in 1957 by George Goldner.{{cite book |title= American Bandstand: Dick Clark and the Making of a Rock 'n' Roll Empire|last= Jackson|first= John A.|year= 1997|publisher= Oxford University Press|location= New York|isbn= 0-19-513089-8|page= 96|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=wj0UAQAAIAAJ&q=%22end+records%22+George+Goldner|accessdate= October 13, 2011}} In 1962 the label was acquired by Morris Levy and incorporated into Roulette Records.{{cite magazine |date= July 7, 1962|title= Roulette Unveils Billing Plan; Absorbs Gone and End Records|magazine=Billboard|page=22|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=khcEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA22|accessdate= October 13, 2011}} Among its more successful recording acts were the Flamingos, the Chantels, and Little Anthony and the Imperials; it also recorded singles by Marilyn Monroe and Wilt Chamberlain. In 1988 Roulette was purchased by Rhino Records,{{cite book |title= Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound|last= Benson|first= Carl|editor1-first= Frank|editor1-last= Hoffman|edition= Second|volume= 1 (A-L)|year= 2005|publisher= Routledge|location= New York|isbn= 0-415-93835-X|page= 609|chapter= Levy, Morris|chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=xV6tghvO0oMC&pg=PA609|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=xV6tghvO0oMC|accessdate= October 13, 2011}} and Rhino in turn was sold in the 1990s to what is now the Warner Music Group, which currently owns the End Records archives.