Checker Records
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Checker Records was started in 1952 as the gospel subsidiary of Chess Records. Like Cadet Records it stopped releasing records around 1971.
Its most known artists include young Aretha Franklin, Rev. C.L. Franklin (father of Aretha), Five Blind Boys Of Mississippi and Bo Diddley.
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