Cream Records is a record label started by Alvin Bennett in 1968, after he sold Liberty Records to Transamerica Corporation. In 1977, it acquired Hi Records from Willie Mitchell. Since 1989, the company (as Hi Records) is headed by Adalah Bennett Shaw, Alvin's daughter.
An unrelated label, named Cream Albums, is based in the United Kingdom and affiliated with the Cream nightclub of Liverpool. Another unrelated label, JMS–Cream Records, is based in France and owned by jazz producer Jean-Marie Salhani.
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“After a few months’ acquaintance with European “coffee,” one’s mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“It’s always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it’s always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.”
—Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)