genre cajun country swamp blues swamp pop country of origin united states location lake charles louisiana united states official website http www.purecajun.com goldband goldband records with eddie and elsie shuler in foreground right . goldband records is an american record label based in lake charles louisiana founded in 1945 and best known for its cajun and r & b recordings in the 1950s and 1960s . its founder eddie shuler claimed the record business is nearly always 90 % hype and 10 % record . 1 history edit the company was established by edward eddie wayne shuler sr. march 27 1913 july 23 2005 . shuler was born in wrightsboro texas and moved to lake charles in 1942 to work in an oil refinery . he played guitar with the hackberry ramblers before forming his own band the all star reveliers which performed on radio station kplc in 1945 . shuler formed goldband records that year originally to record his own group but soon diversified into releasing records by other local bands . in 1948 he began releasing records by accordionist iry lejeune on two subsidiary labels folk star and tnt 2 among the first cajun recordings released and in 1951 the reveliers had their own regional hit with ace of love . in the early 1950s shuler established the goldband complex including recording studio record store and tv store in lake charles and began recording all genres of music including r & b blues country rock and roll swamp pop and cajun . hit recordings included boozoo chavis s paper in my shoe 1954 and the company s biggest seller phil phillips s sea of love 1959 . goldband was also the first to record dolly parton then 14 years old with puppy love 1960 . other artists recording for goldband included sidney brown rockin sidney jo el sonnier and freddy fender . the company thrived with cajun regional successes through the 1960s but changing tastes in the 1970s led to a decline in its fortunes . by the time of shuler s death in 2005 it was the longest established independent record label . 3 today it has become a mail order record company using their online site . references edit evans david 1982 . big road blues tradition and creativity in the folk blues 1st ed . . berkeley california university of california press . p. 85 . isbn 0 520 03484 8 . ace records . cajun s greatest ; the definitive collection . . retrieved 2014 06 13 . goldband history . purecajun.com . retrieved 2013 04 27 . external links edit the story of goldband records discography goldband recording corporation collection southern folklife collection university of north carolina at chapel hill this article about a united states record label is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title goldband records & oldid 738260217 categories american independent record labelsswamp pop musiclake charles louisianacompanies established in 19451945 establishments in the united statesunited states record label stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 7 september 2016 at 21 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view