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Below is a list of the record companies that issued Race Records between 1927 and 1942. Not all companies used the term Race Records, not all companies created...

Below is a list of the record companies that issued Race Records between 1923 and 1924. Not all companies used the term Race Records, not all companies created...

Natalie Cole, Nat King Cole’s daughter, was born in Los Angeles in 1950. She made her first commercial recordings in 1975 in Chicago at Curtom Studios, Paragon Studios...

The origin of the sound recording industry can be traced back to the nineteenth century, to the inventions of Thomas Edison and others. Companies were able to set...

Little Milton was one of Chess Records’ Blues artists. He was born down in the Mississippi delta and made his first recordings at Sun Records in Memphis, having...

Billy Stewart was born William Larry Stewart II in 1937 in Washington DC. He was the eldest of four brothers who sang Gospel together as the Four Stewart...

The Dells left Vee-Jay, following their road accident and came back to Chess Records in 1962, where they had begun their career as the El-Rays with a single...

In 1966, Leonard Chess retired from Chess Records to work in radio, leaving his son Marshall Chess in charge. The company was taken over by GRT in 1969,...

The Moonglows were formed in 1953. However, the origins of the group went back to 1949, when Harvey Fuqua and Bobby Lester started singing together in Louisville, Kentucky,...

Chuck Berry was one of the best-known of the Chess artists in the fifties and sixties. He joined the Johnny Johnson Trio in 1952 and started to develop...