Editing Minit Records (section)

{{Short description|American independent record label}}
{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name        = Minit Records
| image       = Minit Records rainbow logo.svg
| image_size  = 
| image_alt   = logo of the company: a circle of rectangles of various colors around blocky light tan text reading "Minit". The background is black.
| caption     = One logo included on many of their records starting in 1966
| parent      = <!-- parent company, such as "[[Warner Music Group]]" -->
| founded     = {{start date|1959}}
| founder     = Joe Banashak
| defunct     = {{end date|1971}}
| slogan      = <!-- advertising slogan or "motto" of the label, if any -->
| status      = <!-- leave blank unless "Inactive" -->
| distributor = <!-- distributors, separated by using commas, {{Flatlist}} or {{Hlist}} -->
| genre       = R&B, Soul
| country     = United States
| location    = New Orleans
| website     = <!-- such as "{{URL|www.atlanticrecords.com}}" -->
}}

'''Minit Records''' was an American [[independent record label]], originally based in [[New Orleans]] and founded by Joe Banashak in 1959.<ref name="Larkin60">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Sixties Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=1997|edition=First|isbn=0-7535-0149-X|pages=308/9}}</ref> [[Ernie K-Doe]], [[Aaron Neville]], [[Irma Thomas]], and [[Benny Spellman]] were early artists on the label.<ref name=":2">{{cite web|url=http://www.bsnpubs.com/imperial/minit.html|title=Minit Records|publisher=Bsnpub.com|access-date=2009-04-15}}</ref> Later artists included [[Bobby Womack]] and [[Ike & Tina Turner]].