Enjoy Records

{{Short description|American record label}}

Enjoy Records was a record label owned and operated by Bobby Robinson from 1962{{Cite web|url=http://musicians.about.com/od/indielabels/p/enjoyrecords.htm |title=Enjoy Records Profile |accessdate=26 December 2008 |work=About.com |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511115153/http://musicians.about.com/od/indielabels/p/enjoyrecords.htm |archivedate=11 May 2013 }} (archived) through the mid-1980s, and was run out of his record shop at 125th Street and 8th Ave. in Harlem. Starting with blues, R&B, and rock and roll, the label recorded many of the original old-school hip hop groups and MCs, including Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, the Funky 4+1, Spoonie Gee, and the Treacherous Three, beginning in 1979.Larkin, Colin (1999) The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music, Virgin Books, {{ISBN|0753502526}}, p. 110 The label closed down in 1987, although Robinson's shop remained open.

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