Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Soma Records was an American record company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and owned by wholesale record distributor Amos Heilicher. The Soma name was "Amos" spelled backwards. Heilicher, along with his brother Danny, was also in the jukebox business and owned the Musicland chain of retail music stores. Started in 1957, Soma began mainly recording polka music, old-time, country and western and jazz groups. Their first hit was Bobby Vee's 1959 "Suzie Baby", which was a giant regional smash before Liberty Records bought up the master and issued it nationally. Among hits released by Soma were "Mule Skinner Blues" by The Fendermen, "Liar, Liar" by The Castaways, "Run, Run, Run" by The Gestures and "Surfin' Bird" by The Trashmen. The last record was on the Garrett label and was distributed by Soma. George Garrett was an engineer who ran the board on many Soma recordings. Soma recorded many local and regional rock groups during the 1960s, including The Accents, Gregory Dee and The Avanties, The Underbeats, and The Del Counts, as well as distributing other smaller labels (Garrett, Bangar, Golden Ring, to name a few).

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