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DLM (dlm)
1-Arriviste
Username: dlm
Post Number: 24
Registered: 7-2010
| | Posted on Monday, July 19, 2010 - 8:12 am: |    |
I pose to ask the same question as a post I made about "What Detroit artist/producers with a Chicago connection." |
Robb_K (robb_k)
6-Zenith
Username: robb_k
Post Number: 10578
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Monday, July 19, 2010 - 4:10 pm: | |
Mike Hanks went to Chicago to work for Bob Catron at his Katron Records, and USA Records.
McKinley Jackson worked for several labels in Chicago, including with Gene Chandler at Maurci Records.
Carl Davis hired Detroit's Sonny Sanders and Barrett Strong to write, arrange and work on recording sessions.
Vee Jay's Calvin Carter hired Barrett Strong to do the same before Carl Davis got him.
The Chess Bros. hired Detroit's Roquel (Billy Davis) to be A&R man to run Chess Records. He brought Lamont Dozier, David Ruffin, Tony Clarke, Ty Hunter, Jackey Beavers, and other artists to Chess' new Check-Mate label in 1961. Many of them stayed with Chess.
Detroit's Don Juan Mancha worked for a lot of small Chicago label owners in the mid to late '60s.
Ric Williams at Zodiac, Aquarius,Boo Records in Chicago used Fred Bridges, and his partners Knight and Eaton (Brothers of Soul) in the mid-late '60s and early '70s both in sessions in Chicago and Detroit. He also brought some of The Funk Brothers and other Detroit musicians, including arranger, Mike Terry, to work on sessions in Chicago. They brought Ruby Andrews to Detroit to record.
Jo Armstead at Giant Records used Mike Terry to run her sessions both in Chicago and Detroit. She also used some of The Funk Bros. on some sessions.
The owners of Randee/Markie records in Chicago , along with their A&R man, Andre Williams, brought Jimmy Holland and The Four Hollidays to Chicago to record. Williams also brought Detroit artists to Chicago for Blue Rock Records, and he worked on sessions for The Leaner Bros. at their One-Der-Ful/Mar-V-Lus Records.
In The Early '50s, R&B groups, such as The Fascinators, were brought to Chicago by labels such as The Chess Bros.' Chess Records, Art Sheridan's Chance Records, and Al Benson's Parrot Records.
Aretha Franklin and her father, Reverend C.L. Franklin got some of their records released by Chicago's Chess Records in the mid 1950s.
Detroit record company owner/producer, Robert West, had production/distribution deals with Chess Records in the mid 1950s (Falcons and Stanley Mitchell & Tornados and others).
The Four Tops were under contract to Chess Records in the mid 1950s.
There are too many Blues artists to name, who lived in Detroit, but had deals with Chicago labels (John Lee Hooker is the most known).
Arranger Riley Hampton in Chicago was used by Motown Records to arrange their strings and complicated overall arrangements. He also worked with Barrett Strong and Sonny Sanders with Carl Davis at Constellation Records (Ewart Abner) and at Okeh Records.
Ewart Abner of Chicago's VJ and Constellation Records later moved to Detroit to work for Motown. |
DLM (dlm)
1-Arriviste
Username: dlm
Post Number: 34
Registered: 7-2010
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 8:41 am: | |
Hi Robb K,
The connection with Hanks association with Katron was made possible by Bob Lee.
Some insiders think Armstead and Andrews are Detroit artist-why is that??
Ric Williams ran Zodiac in Chicago and Boo Records in Detroit releasesing the same product on two different labels in two cities. |
DLM (dlm)
2-Debutant
Username: dlm
Post Number: 65
Registered: 7-2010
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 10:53 am: | |
Hi Robb K, someone asked me once around 3-4 years ago about Ric Williams and does he know about NS sites, and would he consider releasing a comp of his Boo, Zodiac and his array of labels he ran. A reliable source told me Mr. Williams doesn't own his masters anymore, to consider for a release, least that's what I was told. |
Robb_K (robb_k)
6-Zenith
Username: robb_k
Post Number: 10627
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 10:24 pm: | |
I never heard that Boo Records was located in Detroit. I had thought it was headquartered in Chicago, along with Williams' Zodiac, Aquarius, and Shock Records. It was his main producer, Fred Bridges, that was his main connection to Detroit. He DID send Bridges, Knight and Eaton, as well as Ruby Andrews there to record. But I never heard of nor saw any Boo Records office in Detroit. |
DLM (dlm)
2-Debutant
Username: dlm
Post Number: 82
Registered: 7-2010
| | Posted on Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 11:53 am: | |
Hi Robb K, maybe I didn't post earlier correctly. I know there weren't any Boo offices in in the D, but we know the record buying public there did buy the records. Robb K, all I'm
asking to your knowledge, was Boo distributed there, but still was headquatered in Chicago?
(Message edited by DLM on July 29, 2010) |
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