 Producer Tom Wilson was the first to release a Sun Ra album, through his independent label Transition Records in 1957, entitled "Jazz by Sun Ra".During this era, Sun Ra recorded the first of dozens of singles as a band-for-hire backing a range of doo wop and R&B singers; several dozen of these were reissued in a two-CD set, "The Singles", by Evidence Records.In the late 1950s, Sun Ra and his band began to wear outlandish, Egyptian-styled or science fiction-themed costumes and headdresses.