Moby Dick Records was a small disco record label founded by Boys Town Gang producers Bill Motley (DJ Bill Motley) and Victor Swedosh in 1980. Its headquarters were located at 573 Castro Street,

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, United States. Swedosh also owned the Moby Dick Bar (opened in 1977) located in the

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. The label was known for "The Moby Dick Sound" and contributing to "Frisco Disco". Its famous acts included

Boys Town Gang The Boys Town Gang were a post-disco and hi-NRG band from San Francisco, California. Their popularity peaked in the 1980s when the group reached No. 1 in the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, and Japan as well as No. 4 in the UK with their cover ...

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and

Patrick Cowley Patrick Joseph Cowley (October 19, 1950 – November 12, 1982) was an American disco and hi-NRG dance music composer and recording artist, best known for his collaborations with disco singer Sylvester. Along with Giorgio Moroder, he has been cre ...

. Moby Dick also distributed C & M Records, as well as associating with the late night partiers from the

Trocadero Transfer The Trocadero Transfer, or The Troc, was an after hours nightclub, dance club in operation from December 1977 to the late–1990s in San Francisco, California, U.S.. It was located at 520 4th Street at Bryant in the SoMa neighborhood. The club has ...

, a popular disco nightclub at the time. Moby Dick Records closed in 1984, after seven of its ten core employees died of AIDS.

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