SYD STARTS A RECORD COMPANY The Early Years, 1943–44

The day had begun with such promise. On this February Saturday in 1956, the twenty or so people crammed into the Cincinnati recording studio were ready to get down to business. The producer was enthusiastic, the featured artists—a young singing group out of Georgia called the Famous Flames—were exci...

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Published inKing of the Queen City p. 1
Main Author Jon Hartley Fox
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Illinois Press 03.09.2009
Subjects
Applied sciences
Artists
Arts
Audio equipment
Audiovisual equipment
Broadcast media
Business
Business structures
Communications
Corporate affiliates
Cultural industries
Economic disciplines
Economics
Electronic equipment
Electronics
Employment
Industrial sectors
Industry
Jukeboxes
Labor economics
Mass communication
Mass media
Music
Music theory
Musical pitch
Musical register
Musicians
Occupations
Performing arts
Radio
Recording industry
Singers
Social sciences
Subsidiary companies
Vocal music
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Summary:The day had begun with such promise. On this February Saturday in 1956, the twenty or so people crammed into the Cincinnati recording studio were ready to get down to business. The producer was enthusiastic, the featured artists—a young singing group out of Georgia called the Famous Flames—were excited, the studio musicians in place. Time to roll tape. They hadn’t even made it through the first song when the atmosphere was shattered by a loud voice shouting in the studio’s control room. “Stop the tape. Stop the tape,” yelled Syd Nathan, the founder and president of King Records.
ISBN:9780252034688
0252034686