King Records of Cincinnati

• Author(s): Randy McNutt,
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Pages: 128
• ISBN_10: 1439621144
  ISBN_13: 9781439621141
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional , Music / History & Criticism , Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts , History / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) ,

Description:... Starting with a few songs and a dream in 1943, King Recordsa leading American independentlaunched musical careers from a shabby brick factory on Brewster Avenue in Cincinnatis Evanston neighborhood. Founder Sydney Nathan recorded country singers Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Wayne Raney, and others and later added black acts such as James Brown and the Famous Flames, Bull Moose Jackson, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, Lonnie Johnson, and Freddy King. Meanwhile, King also explored polka, jazz, bluegrass, comedy, gospel, pop, and instrumental musicanything that Nathan could sell. Although Kings Cincinnati factory closed in 1971, the companys diverse catalog of roots music had already become a phenomenon. Its legacy lives on in hundreds of classic recordings that are prized by collectors and musicians.