Cat Records (TK label)

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Cat Records was a subsidiary of TK Productions whose flagship label was TK Records. It had no connections with the Cat Records label of the 1950s which was a division of Atlantic Records. It was founded in 1969 and lasted until 1980. Its most successful artist was Gwen McCrae.


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