Label Guide: Sidewalk

Sidewalk Records was a record label based in Hollywood, California that was started in 1963 by Mike Curb at the age of eighteen. The company was first formed as Sidewalk Productions and later became a subsidiary label of Capitol Records. Many recordings by Sidewalk Productions appeared on the related label Tower Records, also a subsidiary of Capitol Records.

Most of the LPs released on Sidewalk Records were B-movie soundtrack albums, but the label is also responsible for early recordings by Mike Bloomfield's Electric Flag, and Linda Ronstadt's Stone Poneys. Sidewalk released about 20 LPs when Curb sold the label in 1969 and moved on to run MGM Records throughout the 1970s. He later formed Curb Records, which still exists today.