J & S Records was a New York record label started in 1956 and continued through to the early 1970s. The owner was Zelma "Zell" Sanders (1922–1976), one of the few woman label owners in the record business. In the early 1950s Sanders was managing a girl vocal group, The Hearts. She arranged a contract for them on New York's Baton Records and hired and fired members till she got the mix she wanted. In mid 1956 she decided to start her own label, J & S Records. Zell Sanders died in 1976, and her daughter Johnnie Louise Richardson in 1988.