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...
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....


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