Editing Cadet Records (section)

{{Short description|American record label}}
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{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name          = Cadet Records
| image         = <!-- logo, such as "LABEL-LOGO.jpg" -->
| image_size  = <!-- size -->
| parent        = Chess Records
| founded      = {{start date|1955}}
| founder       = <!-- name of founders, separate with commas or <br /> -->
| fate            = <!-- explain the reason of the closing-->
| defunct       = {{end date|1974}}
| status         = Inactive
| distributor   = <!-- distributors, separate with commas or <br /> -->
| genre         = [[Jazz]], [[blues]], [[rock and roll|rock]]
| country       = U.S.
| location      = <!-- headquarters city and state -->
| url             = <!-- such as "{{URL|www.atlanticrecords.com}}" -->
}}

'''Cadet Records''' was an American [[record label]] that began as [[Argo Records]] in 1955 as the [[jazz]] subsidiary of [[Chess Records]]. Argo changed its name in 1965 to Cadet to avoid confusion with the [[Argo Records (UK)|similarly named label]] in the UK.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HSkEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22chess+withdraws+argo+name%22&pg=PA10 |title=Billboard |date=1965-10-09 |access-date=2013-07-22}}</ref> Cadet stopped releasing records around 1974, when its artists were moved to Chess.

There was also '''Cadet Concept Records''', for rock and more adventurous music, such as the [[Rotary Connection]], and the experimental psychedelic ''[[Electric Mud]]'' album by [[Muddy Waters]]. The label had a Top 20 hit in 1968 with the single "Pictures of Matchstick Men" by the British band [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]] through a licensing arrangement with [[Pye Records]] in London. A St. Louis band known as The Truth a.k.a. The Acid Sette were signed and recorded for this label under the guidance of Abner Spector.

The [[audio mastering|masters]] are now owned by [[Universal Music]].