4 Star Records was a record label that recorded many well-known country music acts in the 1950s. The label, founded after World War II, was home to singers such as Hank Locklin, Maddox Brothers and Rose, Rose Maddox, Webb Pierce, Cousin Ford Lewis and T. Texas Tyler, who all regularly issued records on the label, mostly as 78rpm singles.The label was founded in 1945 by William A. McCall, Jr., Clifford McDonald and Richard A. Nelson. By November 1946 McCall was in complete control of 4-Star.