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Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat Records , founded in 1947. It expanded into soul music , gospel music , early rock and roll , and jazz and comedy recordings, released on the Chess and its subsidiary labels Checker and Argo ...
It was released on June 12, 2011 by the label Capitol Records. [1] [2] The album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Top Blues Albums chart. [3] The title refers to the address of the offices and recording studios of Chess Records in Chicago. [4] [5] The album itself is a tribute to Chess Records. [1] [6]
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Checker Records is a defunct record label that was started in 1952 as a subsidiary of Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois. The label was founded by the Chess brothers, Leonard and Phil , who ran the label until they sold it to General Recorded Tape (GRT) in 1969, shortly before Leonard's death.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... The following singles were released by Chicago-based record label Chess Records. Subcategories.
[5] The Daughters of Eve, the all-female band from Chicago managed by Carl Bonafede got to record at Chess and Malo was the engineer for those sessions. [6] [7] [8] In the 1970s, he worked with Billy Joel, and engineered the lost tapes of "The Brothres" in 1973 at Bolic Sound Studio in Los Angeles (featuring the Kirk brothers from Missouri).
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Cadillac Records is a 2008 American biographical drama film written and directed by Darnell Martin.The film explores the musical era from the early 1940s to the late 1960s, chronicling the life of the influential Chicago-based record-company executive Leonard Chess, and a few of the musicians who recorded for Chess Records.