Joe Banashak worked in New Orleans. He ran A-1 Record Distributors. In 1959 he decided to set up a record...

Twinight Records was founded in Chicago in 1967 by Peter H. Wright as Twilight Records. When he discovered that another...

Constellation Records was formed by Ewart Abner and his partners when Vee-Jay Records ceased trading in 1963. The two partners...

One-derful Records was a company set up by people who had helped Carter and Bracken launch Vee-Jay. The two brothers...

Westbound Records was founded late in 1968 by Armen Boladian (at the suggestion of Mike Hanks) and became active in...

Holland, Dozier and Holland left Motown in 1968, following a dispute with Berry Gordy over royalty payments. The trio had...

ABC-Paramount was a New York company that signed The Impressions in 1961, after the group left Vee-Jay Records. Everything started...

At Norala Studio, Quin Ivy spent most of 1966 organising sessions for Percy Sledge. Jerry Wexler was happy for the...

The roots of the unique body of music that was produced in New Orleans in the twentieth century can be...

Dave Bartholomew was born on December 24th, 1918, in Edgard, Louisiana. He was the son of Louis Bartholomew, a well-known...