MTM Records was an American independent record label

Independent record label

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 specializing in country music

Country music

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. It was founded in 1984 as a subsidiary of the production company of the same name

MTM Enterprises

MTM Enterprises was an American independent production company established in 1969 by Mary Tyler Moore and her then-husband Grant Tinker to produce The Mary Tyler Moore Show for CBS...

, a company owned by actress Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore

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. After MTM Enterprises was sold in late 1988, the label was absorbed into Capitol Records

Capitol Records

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. Staff songwriters included Radney Foster

Radney Foster

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 and Bill Lloyd of Foster & Lloyd

Foster & Lloyd

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, as well as Larry Boone

Larry Boone

Larry Eugene Boone is an American country music artist. Between 1985 and 1993, Boone recorded five major label studio albums, in addition to charting several singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts. His highest-charting single, "Don't Give Candy to a Stranger", reached #10 in 1988...

 and Hugh Prestwood

Hugh Prestwood

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. In its four years of existence, fifty-two singles on the MTM label charted on the Billboard

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country singles chart. The label also signed one rock music

Rock music

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 act, The Metro All Stars

Artist roster

• The Almost Brothers
• Holly Dunn
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• Beggars & Thieves
  Beggars & Thieves
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• Heaven's Edge
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• Girls Next Door
• Marty Haggard
• Becky Hobbs
  Becky Hobbs
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• The Metro All Stars
• Paul Overstreet
  Paul Overstreet
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• Judy Rodman
  Judy Rodman
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• Ronnie Rogers
  Ronnie Rogers
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• S-K-O
  S-K-O
  S-K-O, originally known as Schuyler, Knobloch and Overstreet, was an American country music group composed of Thom Schuyler, Fred Knobloch and Paul Overstreet. The original lineup recorded one album for MTM Records and charted three country hits, including the Number One "Baby's Got a New Baby"...
  
  
• The Shoppe
  The Shoppe
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