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The Premiere U.S. Indie Pop Label of the Early '60s
Lester Sill is primarily credited with the development of West Coast R&B and Rock & Roll, shepherding the fledgling career of the influential songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
At the end of 1961, Sill and Hazlewood formed a new label, Gregmark, as a vehicle for the Paris Sisters, an Andrews Sisters-inspired sibling vocal trio with a series of little-heard Decca singles under its belt. GREGMARK RECORDS was founded by Lester Sill in 1961, a year before he started Philles Records with Phil Spector.