Title: | BLUES and R&B Interest Group |
Notice: | Welcome to the Blues/R&B Conference! |
Moderator: | OSOSPS::SYSTEM A |
Created: | Tue Apr 04 1989 |
Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
Number of topics: | 557 |
Total number of notes: | 7144 |
T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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105.1 | Malaco Records | GLDOA::ALEXSY | Wed Aug 16 1989 13:15 | 25 | |
105.2 | Rounder Records | AQUA::ROST | My mind is on vacation | Wed Aug 16 1989 13:41 | 21 |
105.3 | DEMON::CRAMER | Fri Aug 18 1989 21:32 | 10 | ||
105.4 | often imitated, never duplicated | STAR::TPROULX | Mon Aug 21 1989 15:30 | 13 | |
105.5 | Crooks AND Heroes | AQUA::ROST | My mind is on vacation | Mon Aug 21 1989 16:40 | 27 |
105.6 | STAR::TPROULX | Mon Aug 21 1989 18:49 | 3 | ||
105.7 | Rounder Records | HAZEL::STARR | DJ Bag Man and the Condom Crew | Mon Aug 21 1989 19:09 | 6 |
105.8 | We might never have heard of anyone we love without them | VAXUUM::T_PARMENTER | No brain no pain | Mon Aug 21 1989 20:54 | 14 |
105.9 | Charly, seconded | HELIX::CLARK | Tue Aug 22 1989 23:42 | 30 | |
105.10 | More label/studio trivia | BAHTAT::SALLITT | Dave - @RKG & ICI, 0642432193 | Wed Aug 23 1989 10:55 | 27 |
105.11 | P.S. on Charly distribution in U.S. | HELIX::CLARK | Wed Aug 23 1989 19:56 | 11 | |
105.12 | Next Time I'll Get a Car I Can A Ford! | USEM::BLOUNT | Just the Fax Ma'am | Thu Aug 24 1989 13:34 | 10 |
105.13 | re: .10-.12 | DEMON::CRAMER | Fri Aug 25 1989 17:22 | 26 | |
105.14 | After Eight Years of Waiting, It Better Be Good | USEM::BLOUNT | Just the Fax Ma'am | Fri Oct 20 1989 18:38 | 12 |
105.15 | I'd be grateful for any assistance here.... | AYOV18::DROBB | I deny inhibition, escape definition | Fri Apr 27 1990 10:34 | 24 |
105.16 | Try Red Lick | BAHTAT::SALLITT | Dave @RKG, 831-3117 | Wed May 09 1990 15:55 | 21 |
105.17 | The wonder of Notes.... | AYOV18::DROBB | I deny inhibition, escape definition | Thu May 10 1990 09:02 | 6 |
105.18 | Rounder Records | SNAX::MOORADIAN | Wed May 01 1991 20:00 | 3 | |
105.19 | Must have | GLDOA::ALEXSY | Fri May 24 1991 15:15 | 7 | |
105.20 | ELNDOC::CLARK | Fri May 24 1991 19:34 | 14 | ||
105.21 | Time/Life info | ELNDOC::CLARK | Mon May 27 1991 10:58 | 25 | |
105.22 | Time/Life Records | QRYCHE::STARR | Spontaneity has its time and place. | Tue Jun 04 1991 20:32 | 12 |
105.23 | glad all over | VERGA::CLARK | Wed Jun 05 1991 13:30 | 8 | |
105.24 | how embarassin'! | QRYCHE::STARR | Spontaneity has its time and place. | Wed Jun 05 1991 17:40 | 7 |
105.25 | Charly news | VERGA::CLARK | Fri Jun 14 1991 13:43 | 22 | |
105.26 | Red Lick | CHEFS::MARTING | Tue Nov 12 1991 12:51 | 9 | |
105.27 | BAHTAT::SALLITT | Tue Nov 12 1991 13:20 | 10 | ||
105.28 | Red Lick are AOK | BAHTAT::SALLITT | Thu Nov 14 1991 12:40 | 10 | |
105.29 | Thank Heaven For Charly! | KEEGAN::TURNER | Thu Apr 08 1993 11:41 | 73 | |
105.30 | VERGA::CLARK | Thu Apr 08 1993 14:13 | 29 | ||
105.31 | Can't go wrong | KEEGAN::TURNER | Fri Apr 09 1993 15:15 | 16 | |
105.32 | Atlantic, Imperial, Old Town, King, Speciality, Duke/Peacock, Modern, Apollo, Savoy, Chess | OSOV03::KAGEYAMA | I'll be jumping the blues until the day I die | Fri Jun 06 1997 03:57 | 45 |
(This topic was created for one's favorite record labels, but I thought it might not be a bad idea to ride on this topic to discuss record companies in general.) As for numerous independent record companies established after the War, Jerry Wexler of Atlantic wrote following comments in his autobiography, "Rhythm and the Blues - A Life in American Music." It's interesting to see even most "serious" black music label, especially Wexler, pursuit for hit records to keep alive their company. After all rhythm and blues is popular music but from today's perspective it sometimes treated as an antique. I believe someone must have written a chart of companies and labels which contributed to black music. And it's also interesting to see musicians's career from their label movement. For instance, Big Joe Turner's case from my memory. Vocalion -> Decca -> Natinal/Aladdin -> Atlantic -> Pablo - Kazunori -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I dug cross-cultural collaborations and craved commercial success, which is maybe why Ahmet and I got on so well. We could have developed a label along the lines of Blue Note, Prestige, Vanguard, or Folkways, fastidious documentarians of core American music. Bobby Weinstock, Alfred Lion, Moe Ash, Orrin Keepnews, Manny Solomon, and the other keepers of the flame were doing God's work. Ahmet and I, however, didn't feature ourselves as divinely elected. We weren't looking for canonization; we lusted for hits. Hits were the cash flow, the lifeblood, the heavenly ichor - the wherewithal of survival. While we couldn't divorce ourselves from our tastes and inclinations, neither could we deny out interest in income. Nor could we stand still; we belived to our souls that the way of the independent label was either growth or death. Every month it seemed, another indie would hit the dust. Our competitors in commercial black music - Lew Chudd at Imperial, Sam and Hymie Weiss at Old Town, Syd Nathan at King, Art Rupe at Speciality, Don Robey at Duke/Peacock, Jules and Saul Bihari at Modern, Bess Berman at Apollo, Herman Lubinsky at Savoy, Phil and Leonard Chess - weren't exactly pushovers. If we slipped, these sweethearts would be right behind us picking up the pieces. This was a pushy, get-to-the- distributor, get-to-the-deejay, get-to-the-goddamn-song-on-the-air business. |