General Recorded Tape

General Recorded Tape
Company typePublic
IndustryRecord label
Founded1965
Sunnyvale, California
FounderAlan J. Bayley
Defunct1979 (1979)
FateLiquidated and catalog sold
Successor
HeadquartersLos Angeles
Total assetsUS$6.6 million
Veronica Herrera, at a GRT 8-track assembler, 1970

General Recorded Tape was an American manufacturer of reel to reel, 8-track and cassette tapes that existed between 1965 and 1979. The company grew to become the owner of several prominent U.S. record labels, including Chess Records and Janus Records.