Amy Records
Amy Records was a record label formed in 1960 as a subsidiary of Bell Records. Artists who had success on Amy included Al Brown's Tunetoppers with "The Madison", a dance tune in 1960, Joey Powers with "Midnight Mary", Del Shannon's 1964 recordings of "Handy Man" and "Keep Searchin'". Lee Dorsey hit with "Ride Your Pony" in 1965 and "Working in the Coal Mine" in 1966. Paul Simon,, together with the children's music producer and songwriter Bobby Susser, released records in 1961 and 1962 under the names Tico and the Triumphs with "Motorcycle" and Jerry Landis with "Lone Teen Ranger" with little success as did garage band Kinetic Energy with their version of Dale Hawkins' 1957 hit "Susie Q" in 1969. Beginning in 1967, albums by Amy recording artists were issued on the Bell label and in 1969, Amy was folded into Bell.
In 1961, some of the assets from Madison Records were given to Amy Records. Shortly afterwards, the label released "Play Me a Sad Song", and "It Means a Lot to Them", which were sung by Paul Simon.
