Soul, Blues, Sixties Music Database
Golden World Records and Ric Tic and Wingate were all part of Eddie Wingate’s Golden World label in Detroit, close to Motown. In fact too close, as it really annoyed Gordy that many of his musicians were moonlighting as backing session artists and taking the Funk Brothers experience with them, even using writers like Richard … Read more
Dave Godin became an enthusiast of soul, opening his own record shop and record label – Soul City (re-releasing Go Now by Bessie Banks – originally on Red Bird USA). According to his own story, he introduced Mick Jagger to black music but there is no real evidence of this, apart from the fact that … Read more
Curtom Records – started by Curtis Mayfield in 1968 Curtom Records was started by Curtis Mayfield and Eddie Thomas – Eddie Thomas had been the manager of the Impressions. FROM RHINO PRESS RELEASE.. RHINO GETS READY FOR CURTIS MAYFIELD CATALOG Premier Reissue Label Acquires Exclusive North American Rights to Curtom Catalog Featuring Mayfield, Impressions, and … Read more
Atlantic Records – founded in 1947 Atlantic Records Herb Abramson started Atlantic in 1947 with Ahmet Ertegun (he left Atlantic in 1955). Jerry Wexler joined in 1954. Tom Dowd was the recording engineer and the In house writers were Lieber and Stoller and Arif Marden. See Charlie Gillett’s Book for the best and fullest coverage of … Read more
Many Albums with collections of Atlantic label artists were released in the USA i Atlantic Collection Many Albums with collections of Atlantic label artists were released in the USA i.e. Live: Saturday Night At The Uptown (New York). In the UK, THIS IS SOUL was released twice and it was a ‘have to have’ item … Read more
Arctic Records were a 1960s Philly sound Soul Record Company, possibly based in Miami, not to be confused with present day, Canadian Indy company. ARCTIC Soul Records – Catalogue 101-TIFANNYS-LOVE ME/HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD 102-BARBARA MASON-COME TO ME/GIRLS HAVE FEELINGS TOO 103-VOLCANOS-BABY/MAKE YOUR MOVE 104-CINCY GIBSON-STEP BY STEP/WHISPER YOU LOVE ME BABY 105-BARBARA MASON-YES, … Read more
Set up by The Gordy sisters led by Gwen Gordy and husband Harvey Fuqua, with help from Leonard and Phil Chess (of Chess Records Chicago) The company distributed ‘Money’ – by Barret strong on its ANNA Label in the USA The company organised its release in the UK on the London Label in 1960. Writers … Read more
Review of The Story of Chess Records by John Collis and Buddy Guy (Forward) If one man can be credited with creating the language of rock and roll it is Chuck Berry. In the early 1950s he was just an ambitious Nat ‘King’ Cole imitator gigging in St Louis, but ten years after moving to Chicago … Read more