Tommy Boy Records: version 1
Saved 2026-09-14 02:47 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added the original US CD of **Deltron 3030** (75 Ark 75033, UPC 676217503322), a wanted barcode from the 2007 site. Identity confirmed by MusicBrainz release 8f118f74 and two Discogs releases (45721 D. This is the current version.
Source of v1
# Tommy Boy Records <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Tommy Boy Records
disambiguation: American independent record label founded by Tom Silverman
country: US
founded: 1981
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ----------- | ------------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| distributes | brand/75-ark | US | | 2001 | | sourced | ^discogs-label | Discogs: 75 Ark was distributed by Tommy Boy Music during most of its short existence and folded in 2001; Tommy Boy Music is credited as distributor on the Deltron 3030 jewel-case CD (^discogs-jewel) |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ----------------------- | ---- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Tommy Boy Music | name | en | | |
| Tommy Boy Entertainment | name | en | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | --------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| wiki-tommyboy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Boy_Records | Wikipedia: Tommy Boy Records | 2026-09-14 | Wikipedia | publication | | | lead, History | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
| discogs-tommyboy | https://api.discogs.com/labels/502 | Discogs label 502: Tommy Boy Music | 2026-09-14 | Discogs | catalogue | | 502 | profile | | | |
| discogs-label | https://api.discogs.com/labels/4736 | Discogs label 4736: 75 Ark | 2026-09-14 | Discogs | catalogue | | 4736 | profile, parent_label | | | |
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## About <!--about-->
Tommy Boy Records, also called Tommy Boy Entertainment, is an American independent record label and multimedia brand founded in New York in 1981 by Tom Silverman; Warner Bros. Records bought half of it in 1985 and was its partner until 2002.[^wiki-tommyboy] Discogs dates the company Tommy Boy Music to September 1980.[^discogs-tommyboy] It distributed the San Francisco label 75 Ark for most of that label's existence.[^discogs-label]
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