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Cobra Records was an independent record label that operated in Chicago from 1956 to 1959 and launched the careers of Chicago blues artists Otis Rush, Magic Sam and Buddy Guy, a new generation who pioneered the West Side Sound.
He recorded singles for Cobra Records from 1957 to 1959, including "All Your Love" and "Easy Baby". They did not reach the record charts but had a profound influence, far beyond Chicago's guitarists and singers. Together with recordings by Otis Rush and Buddy Guy (also Cobra artists), the West Side Sound was a manifesto for a new kind of blues. [5]
Dixon signed with Chess Records as a recording artist, but he began performing less, being more involved with administrative tasks for the label. [4] By 1951, he was a full-time employee at Chess, where he acted as producer, talent scout, session musician and staff songwriter. [4] He was also a producer for the Chess subsidiary Checker Records. [4]
King Cobra was a Swiss-American glam metal band from Memphis, Tennessee, active in the early 1980s. Having formed in 1982, the band released an album the following year that led to tours supporting acts like Quiet Riot and Nazareth .
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First Strike is the debut and sole studio album released by Swiss-American hard rock band Cobra. Originally released in 1983 by Epic Records, [1] the record was produced by Tom Allom and remastered in 2008 by Rock Candy. [2] The album in the British music magazine Kerrang! took first place in the import charts. [3]
Jewel Records was an American independent record label, founded in 1963 by Stan Lewis and based in Shreveport, Louisiana. It had two subsidiary labels, Paula and Ronn. The first of many retail record stores, called Stan's Record Shop, was opened in 1948.
Burrage's first recording was "Hi-Yo Silver", written by Burrage and Claude Trenier, [2] for Decca Records in 1950, backed by Horace Henderson's band. [ 5 ] Burrage's only national hit as singer was the 1965 Chicago soul song "Got to Find a Way", [ 2 ] which reached number 31 on the US Billboard R&B chart . [ 6 ]