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Select-O-Hits

National Independent Music and Video Distribution

About Me

A Brief History Of Select-O-Hits
Select-O-Hits, which is owned by Sam W. Phillips, Kathy Phillips Gordon and John Phillips, was co-founded in 1960 by their father, Tom Phillips, and uncle, Sam Phillips, the legendary founder of Sun Records.
Tom Phillips began his career in music as Jerry Lee Lewis road manager for a number of years. He had invested all of his savings into an upcoming 1958 European tour when news of Lewis marriage to his 13 year-old cousin hit the front pages. Lewis career came to a sudden, although temporary, halt. The tour was cancelled, and Tom was broke. Sam helped him by giving him a job in the Sun Records warehouse and allowing Tom to live with him while his family stayed behind in Mobile, Alabama. Eventually, Tom saved enough money to send for his family in 1960.
Tom was not satisfied with running the warehouse, so with the help of his wife, Lucille, he opened a small record store and one-stop that provided small, predominantly black-owned record stores with everything from phonograph needles to display racks. In the mid-1970s, Select-O-Hits began to concentrate more on distributing and less on retail and one-stops. The retail store closed in the mid-1980s, and the one-stop followed a few years later.
Select-O-Hits has formed a number of successful record labels, such as Avenue, Icehouse, SOH, Brutal Records, Basix Music, Blues Works and Prophet Entertainment. In 1997 half of the company was sold to Malaco Records of Jackson, Mississippi. While all genres of music are represented in the family of labels Select-O-Hits distributes, Rap, Blues, Soul and Gospel are still the largest portion of the business. Today with sales offices and staff in Memphis, Atlanta, Nashville, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Miami, Chicago, Houston and Seattle, Select-O-Hits is one of the largest independent record distributors in the country, providing services for over 300 independent vendors to all key US music traditional "brick and mortar" retailers and digital media sites.

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Member Since: 5/1/2006
Band Website: selectohits.com
Band Members:

Bizzy Bone, DMX, & Chris Notez - Song For You

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TOP 20 Distributed CD’S
1
Layzie Bone

2
Krayzie Bone

3
Project Pat
4
Benjy Davis Project

5
Los Cardenales de Nuevo Leon

6
Geogia Mass Choir

7
Los Invasores Del Norte

8
Brotha Lynch Hung

9
Coughee Brothaz

10
South Park Mexican

11
Mississippi Mass Choir

12
Lil Wyte

13
Jason Meadows

14
Funk Classics 1

15
Lil O

16
Los Capi

17
Further Down

18
Luther Barnes

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Funk Classics 2

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Funk Classics 3

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My Blog

Haystak Event!

Check out your local retailers on March 20th, 2007 for the new release from Haystak! "Crackavelli" marks his 5th c.d. release, and you should definatly NOT miss out! Also, you can check Haystak out at...
Posted by Select-O-Hits on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:25:00 PST

Criminal Manne promo pic

This is a picture of Criminal Manne's promotional vehicle. If you are a gangsta rap fan be looking for his new mixtape, "Neighborhood Dope Manne Part 2." Coming this summer....
Posted by Select-O-Hits on Tue, 16 May 2006 09:42:00 PST