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Rockin' Dopsie. Alton Jay Rubin (February 10, 1932 – August 26, 1993), [ 1 ] who performed as Rockin' Dopsie (sometimes Rockin' Dupsee), was an American zydeco singer and accordion player who had success first in Europe and later in the United States. [ 2 ] He played accordion on "That Was Your Mother" on Paul Simon 's album Graceland (1986).
Pickwick Records (originally formed as Pickwick Sales Corporation, later Pickwick International) was founded in 1950 by Cy Leslie, whose first business was a prerecorded greeting-card service that in 1946 turned into Voco Records, a label of children's records. In 1957, after successfully marketing its Cricket children's label of 78- and 45rpm ...
1958 – Rockin' Around the World (Decca 8692) 1959 – Bill Haley's Chicks (Decca 8821) 1959 – Strictly Instrumental (Decca 8964) 1960 – Bill Haley and His Comets (Warner Bros. 1378) 1960 – Haley's Juke Box (Warner Bros. 1391) 1961 – Twist (Dimsa 8255); Latin America release only. 1961 – Bikini Twist (Dimsa 8259); Latin America ...
In May 1988, [2] the Lucas group (Steve Charles, Johnny Mason, Harold Lucas and John Bowie) re-recorded "Drive It Home" (credited to The Clovers) for Ripete Records, a small independent label based in Elliott, South Carolina, which released it that year as a single specifically for the Carolina Beach Music market. [37]
Country of origin. United States. Location. Cincinnati, Ohio. King Records was an American label founded in 1943 by Syd Nathan in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The label owned several divisions, including Federal Records, which launched the career of James Brown. It released original material until 1975.
sunrecords.com. Sun Records is an American independent record label founded by producer Sam Phillips in Memphis, Tennessee on February 1, 1952. [3][2] Sun was the first label to record Elvis Presley, Charlie Rich, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash. Prior to that, Sun had concentrated mainly on African-American ...
Chief Records was founded in Chicago in 1957 by Mel London, a 25-year-old R&B entrepreneur. [1] London served as producer and wrote several of the label's best-known songs. Earl Hooker, one of the most well-regarded blues guitarists of his era, [2] [3] was an important contributor to the label. He worked closely with London and "was involved in ...
Maison de Soul is a Louisiana-based Zydeco and blues record label. [1] It was founded in 1974 in Ville Platte, Louisiana by Floyd Soileau and remains under his ownership. It is one of four record labels under Soileau's Flat Town Music Company umbrella, and combined the Flat Town labels make up "the largest body of Cajun, zydeco, and swamp music in the world". [2]