Amherst Records

Amherst Records
Amherst Records
Parent company	Tommy Boy Records
Founded	1957
Founder	Leonard Silver
Distributor(s)	Self-distributed
Genre	various
Country of origin	USA
Location	Buffalo, New York
Official website	www.amherstrecords.com

Amherst Records is an American independent music label, founded in 1957 by the late Leonard Silver, who later on founded Buffalo-based music store Record Theatre.^[1]^[2]^[3] In 1984, Amherst acquired the back catalogs of Avco Records.

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[1]
"Mile Posts". Billboard. Vol. 116, no. 16. April 17, 2004. p. 76. Retrieved May 12, 2020 – via Google Books.
[2]
"Leonard Silver, record mogul, dies at 90". Democratandchronicle.com. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
[3]
"Lenny Silver". Bmhof.org. 2017-03-10. Retrieved 2020-03-01.

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[1] [1]
"Mile Posts". Billboard. Vol. 116, no. 16. April 17, 2004. p. 76. Retrieved May 12, 2020 – via Google Books.

[2] [2]
"Leonard Silver, record mogul, dies at 90". Democratandchronicle.com. Retrieved 2020-03-01.

[3] [3]
"Lenny Silver". Bmhof.org. 2017-03-10. Retrieved 2020-03-01.

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