Cadence Records, Inc.

US record company from New York City; please use Cadence (2) for label. Founded by Archie Bleyer in December 1952, with headquarters on 49th Street in Manhattan. An orchestra leader, Bleyer was well known as a regular on Arthur Godfrey's TV shows, which were immensely popular in the mid-1950s. Another regular on the Godfrey shows was Julius La Rosa, a young singer, and the immediate reason for Bleyer's forming Cadence was to give LaRosa a recording vehicle. Bleyer's orchestra usually backed up LaRosa's performances on TV, and it was a natural arrangement for the two to go into the recording field together.