Editing Modern Records (section)

{{Short description|American record label (1945–1969)}}
{{about|the American record label active from the 1940s through the 1960s|the 1980s record label|Modern Records (1980)}}
{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name        = Modern Records
| image       = Jelly-Johnson-Modern.jpg
| image_size  = 200px
| parent      = Ace Records (UK)
| founded     ={{start date|1945}}
| founder     = <!-- name of founders, separate with commas or <br /> -->
| fate        = <!-- explain the reason of the closing-->
| defunct     = {{end date|1969}}
| status      = Defunct
| distributor = <!-- distributors, separate with commas or <br /> -->
| genre       = [[Jazz]], [[blues]], [[rhythm and blues]], [[rock and roll|rock]]
| country     = U.S.
| location    = [[Los Angeles]], California
| url         = <!-- such as "{{URL|www.atlanticrecords.com}}" -->
}}
'''Modern Records''' ('''Modern Music Records''' before 1947)<ref>{{cite book |year=2006 |title=Encyclopedia of the Blues, Volume 1 |publisher=Routledge|page=700 }}</ref> was an American record company and label formed in 1945 in [[Los Angeles]] by the [[Bihari brothers]]. Modern's artists included [[Hadda Brooks]], [[Etta James]], [[Joe Houston]], [[Little Richard]], [[Ike & Tina Turner]] and [[John Lee Hooker]]. The label released some of the most influential [[blues]] and [[Rhythm and blues|R&B]] records of the 1940s and 1950s.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/arts/music/joe-bihari-who-put-early-rb-on-record-dies-at-88.html|title=Joe Bihari, Who Put Early R&B on Record, Dies at 88|last=Yardley|first=William|date=December 11, 2013|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>