Ideal Records

Location: Alice, Texas

IDEAL RECORDS. Ideal Records, one of the most influential regional recording companies for Mexican-American music during the post–World War II era, was founded in 1946 by Armando Marroquín of Alice, Texas. Marroquín started recording local artists during the 1940s. Major record labels had begun reducing their involvement in the ethnic music markets, in part because of wartime shortages of shellac and other materials needed for making records...

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