It was released by Roulette Records, then later reissued by Capital Records.

Blue Note Records became the flagship jazz label for Capitol Jazz and Classics and was the parent label for the Capitol Jazz, Pacific Jazz, Roulette and other labels within Capitol's holdings which possessed a jazz line.

In 1960 he cut six sides for Roulette Records that included a remake of his hit " Bloodshot Eyes " as well as " Sweet Lucy Brown ", " Spread the News ", " Saturday Night ", " Josephine " and " Did You Get the Message ".

After two singles in early 1962 were released on the local Marlin label owned by Miami's Henry Stone, Stone helped sign them to Roulette Records in New York.

Beginning with his second solo release, " My Girl ", Lymon had moved to Roulette Records.

* 1961: 4391 " Young " / " I Put the Bomp " backup singers The Delicates Denise Ferri and Peggy Santiglia ( on Roulette Records )

After a stint at Roulette Records ( 1960 to 1963 ), Vaughan returned to Mercury from 1964 to 1967.

When Vaughan's contract with Mercury Records ended in late 1959, she immediately signed on with Roulette Records, a small label owned by Morris Levy, who was one of the backers of New York's Birdland, where she frequently appeared.

Around the time of her second divorce, she also became disenchanted with Roulette Records.

When her contract with Roulette ended in 1963, Vaughan returned to the more familiar confines of Mercury Records.

In 1960, they moved to Morris Levy ’ s Roulette Records.

One label, Roulette Records, gave no initial response because its head, Morris Levy, was out of town until evening ; Roulette was one of the last stops on their visit.

" At the time James was in Hawaii and was incredulous about being asked to travel 6, 000 miles to play a show on an upstate New York pig farm, telling the Roulette Records secretary, " If I'm not there, start without us, will you please?

He left Roulette Records in 1974.

It was evident when James first met Morris Levy, the head of Roulette Records, that he was willing to strongarm others when necessary.

It was only after Roulette Records and Levy's Big Seven Music publishing company were sold ( the record company to an EMI and Rhino Records partnership, the music publishing company to Windswept Pacific Music which was later sold to EMI ) that James began to receive large royalty checks from sales of his records.

The Three Degrees had a moderate hit with a remake of the Five Keys ' " Close Your Eyes ", but scored better on Roulette with their remake of the Chantel's " Maybe " and " When Will I See You Again " on Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff's Philadelphia International Records.

The label became defunct at the end of 1960 after being purchased earlier in the year by Roulette Records.

During 1989 Rhino and Capitol ’ s parent EMI made a deal to jointly acquire Roulette Records ; Rhino received the US rights to Roulette's catalog, excluding jazz.

Soon after, Helm joined The Hawks, and they moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where, in 1959, they signed with Roulette Records and released several singles, including a few hits.

Goldner subsequently bowed out of his partnership interest in Roulette, and sold his labels Tico, Rama, End, Gone and Gee record labels to Morris Levy to cover his gambling debts.

After an abortive attempt to merge Red Bird with Atlantic Records, Leiber and Stoller sold their interest in Red Bird Records to Goldner in 1966 for $ 1, by which time Goldner's uncontrollable gambling habit had placed the label under the control of the Mafia The Red Bird catalogue ( except for releases by The Shangri-Las whose contract was sold to Mercury Records ) was sold to Morris Levy's Roulette Records.

During the early 1960s, Roulette issued a number of hits connected to the twist dance craze, most notably by releasing " Peppermint Twist " by Joey Dee and the Starliters.

The song Harlem Roulette by The Mountain Goats off their 2012 album Transcendental Youth contains reference to Frankie Lymon and has been stated by frontman John Darnielle to be about the last night of Lymon's life.

During a period when he was between recording contracts, he made records with Louis Armstrong ( Roulette ), Coleman Hawkins, John Coltrane ( both for Impulse ) and participated in a session with Charles Mingus and Max Roach which produced the Money Jungle ( United Artists ) album.

According to Moore and Prater, they also greatly influenced the duo's singing style, and had them shift their recording style from the style of their Roulette records to a more live, more energetic gospel, call-and-response feel and beat driven soul style the group is known for today.

Roulette ' finances were even more deceptive and opaque than usual in the record business and its recording artists often had little to show for their efforts other than some excellent records.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Roulette was one of the major distributors, handling records for many major firms.

Spinning Roulette wheel with ball

Roulette with red 12 as the winner

Producer Michael Deeley, who bought the script, hired writer / director Michael Cimino who, with Deric Washburn, rewrote the script, taking the Russian Roulette element and placing it in the Vietnam War.

Chinese Roulette ( Chinesisches Roulette ) is a gothic thriller with an ensemble cast, the story follows a twelve year old crippled girl who, out of hate for her parents lack of affection, arranges an encounter between them with their respective lovers at the family country estate.

They released six 45s from 1962 – 1964 ( two were re-releases of Marlin recordings ) with Roulette, and one single on Stone and Alaimo's Alston Label.

In 1961, Roulette, now run by Morris Levy, ended their contract with Lymon and the singer entered a drug rehabilitation program.

* 1958: Rock & Roll with Frankie Lymon ( Roulette )

Surprisingly, she also had some pop chart success in 1960 with " Serenata " on Roulette and a couple of residual tracks from her Mercury contract, " Eternally " and " You're My Baby ".

They subsequently cut singles for Buddah, Private Stock and Roulette, with minor success in Europe.

In January 1961, their second ( and final ) Roulette release was " Three Friends " ( written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David ), backed with " I ’ m Not Your Fool Anymore ".

James said, " We didn't know what in the world was going on, and finally Jerry Wexler over at Atlantic leveled with us and said, ' Look, Morris Levy and Roulette called up all the other record companies and said, " This is my freakin ' record.

'" Their only option would be to sign with Roulette.

The hostage takers played Russian Roulette with their victims.

Before joining The Runaways, Laurie played with Baby Roulette and the Rave Ons, who had one song released on a Kim Fowley compilation LP called Vampires From Outer Space.