BLUE THUMB
RECORDS
Independent
American label out of Beverly Hills. Blue Thumb
was formed in 1968 by Bob Krasnow, Tommy LiPuma and Don Graham. It was
absorbed into ABC Records in 1974, and was dropped in 1979 when MCA took over
ABC. Some Blue Thumb product was licensed to Harvest Records in Britain, in
the early '70s; a couple of albums and singles came out on the actual Blue Thumb
label over here in 1973, through Island Records, sharing a WIP catalogue series
with Island's own issues. The Crusaders are an American music group popular in the early 1970s known
for their amalgamated jazz, pop, and soul
sound. The Pointer Sisters are an American R&B recording girl group from Oakland, California that achieved mainstream success during the 1970s and 1980s. Spanning
over three decades, their repertoire has included such diverse genres as
pop, disco, jazz,
electronic music, bebop, blues,
soul, funk, dance,
country and rock. The Pointer Sisters were inducted onto the
Hollywood Walk of Fame. The group early
origins was sisters June and
Bonnie Pointer. Ruth joined in December 1972. to make the trio. 1980s
consisting of the line-up of June, Ruth, and Anita. Bonnie had left the group in
1978 to commence a solo career. In Thanks to Robert Lyons For
The Info.
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Crusaders
Put It Where You Want
It
BLUE THUMB
WIP
6143
73
Pointer Sisters
Yes We Can Can
BLUE THUMB
WIP
6171