Chelsea Records was an American-based record company founded by musician, songwriter, and record producer

Wes Farrell Wes Farrell (December 21, 1939 – February 29, 1996) was an American musician, songwriter and record producer, who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. Career Farrell was born in New York, United States. Farrell's catalogue includes close ...

in 1972. Within the company's first four months, it released its first gold single, ''

Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast" is a song written by Peter Callander and Geoff Stephens and performed by Wayne Newton. It appeared on Newton's 1972 album, ''Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast''. "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast" reached #3 on the U.S. Adul ...

'' by

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. In addition to Newton, Chelsea featured a number of new and established artists like

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, Jim Gilstrap,

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, and

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. A sublabel, Roxbury Records, focused on the soul and R&B market and scored a million-selling hit with

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's ''

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'' in 1974.

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originally handled distribution for Chelsea, but Farrell switched to independent distributors in 1974, and later did its own distribution. Ultimately, RCA absorbed the label in 1977. In 2018, Boston Rappe
MC Spice The Legend
formed a new record label name
Roxbury Records
no relation to the former label, which folded in 1977). MC Spice The Legend released his albu
"Grown Folk Hiphop"
on Roxbury Records and distributed it through PayUp Records and

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{{Authority control Defunct record labels of the United States Record labels established in 1972 Record labels disestablished in 1977