Puchito

Label founded in Cuba by Jesus Goris in 1954. Goris had been a representative of RCA Victor, selling records at the "Goris Record Shop" but decided to create his own label. He went into exile in 1961. The label was nationalized by the Cuban revolutionary government. The label operated afterwards from the US, but seemed to have continued also in Cuba for a while after the revolution. In 1963 Goris created the company Puchito Records Mfg. Co. Inc., which continued to manufacture Puchito records in Hialeah, Florida. Around 1955 Puchito Records became a subsidiary of Montilla Records, which was owned by Fernando J. Montilla managed by Harry Sultan from 1955 to 1959 who, from about 1931 to about 1967, was owner of Sultan's Record Shop at 26, then 38 East 23rd Street, in the Flatiron District of Manhattan, New York. In 1956, Montilla Records, set-up in a distributorship in his shop on 23rd Street to expand distribution of Puchito Records coast-to-coast. Variations: "High Puchito Fidelity", Puchito High Fidelity"