Revilot Records was operational from 1966 to 1969, releasing around twenty-five singles. It was set up by LeBaron Taylor and...

Natalie Cole, Nat King Cole’s daughter, was born in Los Angeles in 1950. She made her first commercial recordings in...

The Motown story began not with Motown Records but with Tamla, set up in 1959, when Berry Gordy took the...

Billy Stewart was born William Larry Stewart II in 1937 in Washington DC. He was the eldest of four brothers...

The Dells left Vee-Jay, following their road accident and came back to Chess Records in 1962, where they had begun...

In 1966, Leonard Chess retired from Chess Records to work in radio, leaving his son Marshall Chess in charge. The...

Ramsey Lewis was born in Chicago in 1935. He studied piano from a very young age and was attracted to...

In 1953, six school friends at Thornton Township High School in the southern Chicago suburb of Harvey formed The El-Rays....

Marlena Shaw was born Marlina Burgess in New Rochelle, New York, in 1942. Her love of music, especially Jazz, was...

Dee Clark was born Delectus Clark in 1938 in Blytheville, Arkansas. His family moved to Chicago in 1941 and he...