Duke

For all unofficial / bootleg releases of this label please use Duke (4) Also appears as "Duke Records". Duke Records was a record label focusing on R&B and gospel music, started in Memphis, Tennessee in 1952 by David James Mattis (WDIA program director and DJ) and Bill Fitzgerald, owners of Tri-State Recording Company. It briefly merged with Don Robey's Peacock Records, which ultimately took control of Duke and moved it to Peacock's headquarters in Houston.