New York & East Coast

Below is a list of the record companies who 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 who issued Race Records between 1924 and 1927. Not all companies used the term Race Records, not all companies created...

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

Below is a list of the record companies who issued Race Records between 1920 and 1922. Not all companies used the term Race Records, not all companies created...

By the start of 1963, Berry Gordy was conscious of the need to improve Motown’s presence in the two biggest centres of music production in the USA, Los...

The Impressions signed for ABC-Paramount in New York, after the group left Vee-Jay Records in 1961. Everything started brilliantly, with their first release on the new label going...

In 1961 the Pips released a single “Every Beat of My Heart” on Vee-Jay. It was their second single, after an early 1958 release on Brunswick Records. Below...

George Wellington Broome was born in New York probably in 1868. As an adult, he relocated with his family to Medford, a small town in Massachusetts, where he...

Race Records was the most common name used by record companies during the first half of the twentieth century to categorise recordings of Black artists that were marketed...

Lloyd Price was born on March 9th 1933 in Kenner, Louisiana, not far from New Orleans. He was the eighth of eleven children. Like many young kids, he was...