Canaan Records

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Canaan Records was a subsidiary of Word Records. It started in 1965 as a vehicle for the label's Southern Gospel quartets.

Early labels were red with black print. Later, the label changed to black with a color logo and a distinctive vertical row of colored dots down the middle of the label. In the mid-1980s, the label changed to a full color label showing a desert town (presumably Canaan) at sunset, with colors fading from green to yellow to orange in the sky, and tones of brown for the sand.

[edit] Select Canaan Artists

• Wendy Bagwell and The Sunliters
• The Happy Goodman Family
• The Inspirations
• Teddy Huffman and The Gems
• The Plainsmen Quartet
• The Florida Boys
• The Lefevres
• The Rebels
• The Couriers
• The Hemphills
• The Cathedrals
• The Rex Nelon Singers (later called The Nelons)
• Charles Johnson and The Revivers
• Jimmie Davis

[edit] See also

• List of record labels