8.1
Avg Score
5
Opinions
#2,634
All Time
17
Tracks
“Soul music wasn't exactly born on October 24th, 1962, but on that day it took a great leap to becoming the dominant form of African-American popular song. For it was on that autumn Wednesday in New York that organist and compere Fats Gonder asked the Apollo Theater throng if it was "ready for star time," the star being his boss, "the hardest-working man in show business." R&B singer, songwriter an”
“Syd Nathan never wanted this record made. The King Records founder had a long history of working with black performers, ever since the late 40s when he decided to get into "the race business" after initially only concentrating on "hillbilly accounts." This is a man who had not only started his own independent label, but also bankrolled his own recording studios, pressing plant and distribution net”
