Benson Records

Benson Records
Parent company	Sony Music Entertainment
Founded	1902 (1902)
Founder	Bob Benson, John T. Benson
Defunct	2001 (2001)
Status	Defunct
Distributor(s)	Provident Label Group
Genre	Christian
Country of origin	United States
Location	Nashville, Tennessee

Benson Records was founded by Bob Benson and John T. Benson, who formed the John T. Benson Music Publishing Company in 1902.^[1] The record label started out as Heart Warming Records, creating house labels such as Impact Records, Greentree Records, RiverSong, StarSong, Power Discs and Home Sweet Home. In the 1970s, Impact became the top label with artists such as New Dawn, the Imperials, J.D. Sumner & The Stamps Quartet, the Rambos, Dottie Rambo, the Archers, the Bill Gaither Trio, the Speer Family and Sandi Patty (her Impact catalog is owned by Word Records).