Wardell Quezergue: The Creole Beethoven
Wardell Quezergue was born in New Orleans in 1930 into a musical family with Creole origins. His name is pronounced...
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Little Richard: Turning Up The Volume
Richard Wayne Penniman was born in Macon, Georgia, on December 5th in 1932, the third of twelve children. His father...
Golden World, Ric-Tic, Wingate and J&W Records
Ed Wingate and JoAnne Bratton formed their first record company in 1961, after rejecting a suggestion from Berry Gordy that...
Correc-Tone Records
The company was set up in the early sixties by Wilbert Golden, a local Detroit businessman who ran a very...
The Hi Records Session Musicians
Willie Mitchell had joined Hi Records in 1960 as a trumpeter. He had quickly built up an orchestra that provided...
Goldwax Records
Quinton Claunch, who had co-founded Hi Records in 1957, sold his share of the company in 1959. Five years later,...
AFO Records: An Interesting Experiment
The idea for All For One Records was slowly formulated by Harold Battiste in New Orleans during the late 1950s....
Minit Records and Instant Records
Joe Banashak worked in New Orleans. He ran A-1 Record Distributors. In 1959 he decided to set up a record...
Twinight Records
Twinight Records was founded in Chicago in 1967 by Peter H. Wright as Twilight Records. When he discovered that another...
Constellation Records and Bunky Records
Constellation Records was formed by Ewart Abner and his partners when Vee-Jay Records ceased trading in 1963. The two partners...
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