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Charly Records is a Britishrecord label that specialises in reissued material.[1]
Among the labels whose original releases are reissued by Charly areVee-Jay,Sun,Immediate,BYG,Tomato, andFania.
Charly Records was founded in France in 1974 by Jean-Luc Young,[2] who had been a promoter of teen concerts but moved to the UK in 1975.[1] In 1977 Charly started a jazz subsidiary, Affinity Records.[3] Charly was originally known mainly for American-originatedjazz and other modern oddities, such as theBollock Brothers, but it is now mainly an album-oriented "retro" label. Its most obvious rivals areRhino andSee for Miles (a label that Charly distributed in the 1980s).
In Europe, Charly is distributed bySnapper Records, while licensing is through LicenseMusic.com.
The label producesAmericana,blues,funk,gospel,jazz,Latin,popular,rap,reggae,r&b,rock,rockabilly,soul, andska.[2]
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