Earl Palmer was the main drummer who worked at J&M Studios at the start of the post-war development of the...

Wardell Quezergue was born in New Orleans in 1930 into a musical family with Creole origins. His name is pronounced...

Richard Wayne Penniman was born in Macon, Georgia, on December 5th in 1932, the third of twelve children. His father...

Ed Wingate and JoAnne Bratton formed their first record company in 1961, after rejecting a suggestion from Berry Gordy that...

The company was set up in the early sixties by Wilbert Golden, a local Detroit businessman who ran a very...

Willie Mitchell had joined Hi Records in 1960 as a trumpeter. He had quickly built up an orchestra that provided...

Quinton Claunch, who had co-founded Hi Records in 1957, sold his share of the company in 1959. Five years later,...

The idea for All For One Records was slowly formulated by Harold Battiste in New Orleans during the late 1950s....

Joe Banashak worked in New Orleans. He ran A-1 Record Distributors. In 1959 he decided to set up a record...

Twinight Records was founded in Chicago in 1967 by Peter H. Wright as Twilight Records. When he discovered that another...