Mitty Collier
Mitty Collier was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1941. She developed her musical ability in church choirs and joined the...
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Sugar Pie DeSanto
Sugar Pie DeSantowas born in Brooklyn in 1935. Her real name was Umpeylia Marcema Balinton, but she was usually called...
Jan Bradley
Jan Bradley was born Addie Bradley in Byhalia, Mississippi, in 1943. The family moved to Robbins, a Chicago suburb, when...
Jackie Ross
In the development of Soul and R&B at Chess Records, there was a group of female artists, who all had...
Fontella Bass at Chess
Fontella Bass was born in 1940 in St. Louis, Missouri. She was a gifted musician from an early age, singing...
The Impressions at ABC-Paramount
The Impressions signed for ABC-Paramount in New York, after the group left Vee-Jay Records in 1961. Everything started brilliantly, with...
Benjamin Wright Jr. (Part 3)
By the end of 1983 work with SOLAR Records was winding down, so Benjamin concentrated instead on the links that...
Ardent Recording Studios
John Fry’s interest in electronics began in the late fifties, when he and a couple of friends started to record...
Three Singles of the Same Song: (All by the Pips!)
In 1961 the Pips released a single “Every Beat of My Heart” on Vee-Jay. It was their second single, after...
Betty Everett: Making Her Mark at Vee-Jay
Betty Everett was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, in 1939, where she started to sing in church and to play the...
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