CULTURETECHLENSGeneral Recorded Tape
VERIFIED evidence grade of this record
California tape manufacturer that bought Chess Records from the Chess brothers in 1969 for $6.5 million plus stock; sold the Chess catalog to All Platinum Records in 1975.
The record
- Also known as: GRT
Relationships
- Chess Records masters / catalog archive (commercial) — archived at
General Recorded Tape owned the Chess catalog from 1969 to 1975 before selling it to All Platinum.
Sources
- CultureTechLens batch RELP51 research
Record CTL-E-2099 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: VERIFIED · 1 source · 1 mapped relationship · CTL research: RELP-001.
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