Crest Records

Short form for the record company Crest Records, Inc.. For the label, see Crest (8). In 1953, Clark Galehouse formed Crest Records in honor of his Creston, Iowa, hometown mainly as a vehicle for western singer Arizona Cliff Martin (5). Golden Crest was introduced in late 1956. Galehouse ran the Shelley Products pressing plant, servicing many national labels. Although the pressing plant was Galehouse’s cash cow, he loved producing and engineering sessions and would make regular field trips to record college and high school bands for custom release on the associated Crest Records and Silver Crest labels. In May 1959, Clark Galehouse launched teen label Shelley, named after the principal Shelley Products business, by now a large independent pressing plant, and in turn Galehouse’s daughter.