One of several notable Elektra artists!

Elektra Records is sixty, as in the big 6-0.

Expert Eagles fans shouldn’t have much trouble identifying Warner Brothers’ Elektra or Elektra/Asylum. Its logo has spun countless times on turntables and graces the small print on the band’s album jackets, cassettes and CDs. Alongside those Eagles discs were probably several other Elektra artists, perhaps Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, The Doors, Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Ian Matthews, Harry Chapin, David Lindley, Andrew Gold, Carly Simon or Warren Zevon.

Worth checking out on the slicked-up birthday website is a media rich online timetable chronicling the history of the Elektra label.

While perusing the list of 100 essential Elektra artists, we subconsciously inventoried a substantial part of our album collection. Made us feel kinda old. But only briefly, because 60 is the new 20.