“You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me” was a massive hit in the UK for Dusty Springfield in 1966,...

American Sound Studios was set up in 1964 at 827 Thomas Street, North Memphis, by producer Chips Moman and Don Crews. Moman...

When the Swampers Session Band left FAME in 1969, they moved into a building at 3614 Jackson Highway. It was...

Quin Ivy was born in Oxford, Mississppi, in 1937. Like Rick Hall, he grew up in a share-cropping family. He...

Willie Mitchell was born William Lawrence Mitchell in 1928 in Ashland, Mississippi. He took up the trumpet at just eight...

Hi Records was set up in Memphis in 1957 by singer Ray Harris, record store owner Joe Cuoghi, two Sun...

In 1973 Allen Toussaint and Marshall Sehorn established the Sea-Saint recording studio in the Gentilly area of eastern New Orleans. Toussaint had originally joined...

Chi Sound Records was set up by Carl Davis in 1976, following the demise of Dakar Records amidst Brunswick’s legal...

Mercury Record Corporation was formed in Chicago in 1945. It released music covering a range of genres but covered mainly...

In 1958, when Curtis Mayfield entered the music industry, no African American recording artist owned their own songs or recordings....