Tops Records

{{Short description|American record label}}

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Tops Records was a Los Angeles–based record label owned by Tops Music Enterprises, both founded in 1947 by Carl L. Doshay and Sam Dickerman. After a prolific and profitable run, Tops merged with PRI Records in 1958, which in turn, sold to a group of investors in 1960, then went bankrupt in about 1962. Its assets—which included a huge library of recordings—were sold to Pickwick Records, a label that had been its main competitor throughout the 1950s.[http://www.bsnpubs.com/pri/tops.html Tops/Mayfair Story], by Mike Callahan, David Edwards, and Patrice Eyries, Both Sides Now (newsletter of Michael A. Callahan; born 1945), McKinney, Texas (article last updated April 15, 2007) Pickwick's assets were purchased by PolyGram Records in the late 1970s.