Tops Records

Tops Records was a Los 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 with PRI 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 to Pickwick Records, a label that had been its main competitor throughout the 1950s. Pickwick's assets were purchased by PolyGram Records in the late 1970s. In 1990, Tom Ficara and Combined Artists acquired the Tops / PRI catalog.

Selected staff 
 Carl L. Doshay (1917–2010), founder and president
 Sam Dickerman (1915–2000), founder and vice president
 Corky Carpenter (pseudonym of Amos Randolph Carpenter; 1922–1986), A&R
 Harold Spina, A&R
 Dave Pell, producer

References

External links
 Tops Records on the Internet Archive's Great 78 Project

Category:1947 establishments in California
Category:Blues record labels
Category:Defunct record labels of the United States
Category:Record labels established in 1947
Category:Record labels disestablished in 1962