Randy Wood R.I.P.

Record producer and label owner Randy Wood died on April 9, 2011, at the age of 94. Wood founded the successful independent label Dot Records in Gallatin, Tennessee, not far from Nashville. In the early times of Dot, Wood concentrated in country music recordings but hit the charts in the mid-1950s with teenage rock'n'roll singers like Pat Boone, Jim Lowe, and Tab Hunter. He moved Dot to Los Angeles in 1956, one year later the label was bought by Paramount Pictures, though Wood still worked as the president for the company. In 1974, he finally called it a day and Dot was bought by ABC-Paramount.