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Guinness Records (record label)

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Most recordings were sourced from recording studio vaults and published as albums without the knowledge or consent of the performers. Several defunct bands are known to have had releases as a result of this practice, but the most high-profile performers identified were Detroit area band
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All albums released by Guinness Records located to date have the words "Guinness Records nationally distributed by Dellwood Records..." printed on the record label, no albums released by Dellwood have this
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To date only 64 albums released by Guinness have been identified, but gaps in the catalog indicate at least 20 more albums remain unaccounted for.
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that would be greatly over valued so that the investors could claim a tax loss when the deliberately under-promoted album failed to sell.
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Guinness Records was established in 1977 by Marvin L. Popkin as a tax shelter based around the idea of investing in a
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re-issues of albums previously published on obscure labels. (e.g. "Sum Pear", "Good Vibrations")
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Throughout its short existence, the label was closely associated with another tax scam label
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Single band/artist albums based on unpublished material. (e.g. "Rockets", "Snowball")
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based on unpublished material disguised as the debut album of a single band. (e.g. "
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was the name of an American record label operational in 1977. It was, along with
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The types of albums released by Guinness fell into three broad categories:
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one of the major tax scam labels, releasing around one hundred albums.
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This article about a United States record label is a
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Guinness World Records
Tiger Lily Records
master recording
The Rockets
Atlantic Starr
R. Stevie Moore
The Vibrations
Compilation albums
Hotgun
Bootleg
Dellwood Records
Prelude Records



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