Most studios had a group of musicians that they could call on to play regularly on recording sessions. Some were...

Richard Wayne Penniman was born in Macon, Georgia, on December 5th in 1932, the third of twelve children. His father...

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...