Promenade Records was a budget record label run by the infamous Synthetic Plastics Co. of Newark, New Jersey, a major manufacturer of a series of budget record labels that had a considerably large hold of the budget record marketplace up through the early 1970s. In 1972 copyright laws changed, allowing songwriters to prohibit budget record labels from using their music. Being banned from making knock-offs of hit material was extremely problematic for many budget record companies- many simply had to close their doors forever. The generic music market had become oversaturated with two decades worth of budget record labels selling classical, easy listening, background, pipe organ, barbershop, show tunes, Hawaiian, "tribute" albums, folk, religious, polka, Latin, jazz, and sentimental/generic music aimed at an older audience alive during the 1950s and 1960s. However, before 1972, Synthetic Plastics Co. issued their products across several lines of budget record labels such as Diplomat, Spin-O-Rama, Promenade, Peter Pan, and so forth. This company's most generic record releases did not even have a record label name, just a passing notation of their manufacturer. Many SPC record releases were generic in every sense of the word.
