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Tops Records was aLos 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 withPRI 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 toPickwick Records, a label that had been its main competitor throughout the 1950s.[1] Pickwick's assets were purchased byPolyGram Records in the late 1970s.