77 Records was a British record label set up in 1957 by Doug Dobell, the proprietor of Dobell's Jazz Record Shop at 77 Charing Cross Road, London. The label specialised in folk, blues and jazz recordings.
Artists who were recorded for the label, or whose recordings were taken over from US-American labels, included Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Alexis Korner, Bruce Turner, Lightnin' Hopkins, Scrapper Blackwell, Reverend Gary Davis, Robert Pete Williams, Big Joe Williams, Sunnyland Slim, Joe Turner, Little Brother Montgomery, Yank Rachell, and Sleepy John Estes.
In 1960 Dobell started a short-lived spin-off label, Folklore, which released albums by Steve Benbow, Dominic Behan, Richard Fariña and Eric von Schmidt, and Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner, amongst others.
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