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....

OKeh Records was founded by Otto K. E. Heinemann, a German American, who set up a recording studio and pressing plant...

The association of the Brunswick name with popular music goes back a long way. Brunswick-Balke-Collender, a company based in Iowa, was...

The two Chess brothers were born in a village in Poland called Motal, which is now in Belarus: Lejzor in...