'Regency Records' is a
record label founded by Georgia record producer and TV/Radio
syndicator
Johnny Carter and North Georgia disc jockey
Lamar Gravitt in
1965. Regency Records was originally a part of the C-R-Co (Cherokeeland Recording Company), based in Calhoun, GA near the 1800s national capital of the Cherokee Indians.
The label operated as a part of Jay Enterprises when Carter moved to Tennessee in 1966, and
became a part of Cherokee Album Corporation when Carter returned to Georgia in 1968.
Regency released a series of singles, and one album in 1972 by a Tennessee garage band
Neutral Spirits. The self-titled album by the group is a highly prized collector's item
worldwide, due to the fact that most copies of the disc were destroyed in a fire. Fortunately,
the original analog master tape was preserved by the producer, and has been released on CD, as
well as by Florida re-release label 'GearFab'.
Regency is now a division of
National Recording Corporation, and records a mixture of genres
in one of the largest state-of-the-art audio/video soundstages in the State of Georgia.
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