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'Checker Records' was started in 1952 as a subsidiary of Chess Records. Like Cadet Records it stopped releasing records around 1971.
Its most known artists include young Aretha Franklin, Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, J. B. Lenoir, Lowell Fulson, Little Milton, Arthur Crudup, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Tammi Terrell, and Bo Diddley.^[1]

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★ List of record labels

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1. The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, , Charlie, Gillett, Da Capo Press, 1996, ISBN 0-306-80683-5