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From: mariabus@blueyonder.co.uk (Roger)
Newsgroups: rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1950s
Subject: Re: CHESS LABEL FAVORITES
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 19:58:31 +0000
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On Fri, 9 May 2025 18:21:59 +0000, Bruce wrote:

> On Fri, 9 May 2025 17:56:33 +0000, Roger wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 9 May 2025 16:58:11 +0000, Bruce wrote:
>>
>>> I think if we go Chess/Checker it could beat Sun/Phillips. There is also
>>> Aristocrat and Argo. Here are my top favorites from the Chess Record
>>> Company.
>>>
>>>> Chess/Checker/Argo released lots of great records in the 60s. Sun's last
>>> great release was in 1958.
>>>
>>> Roger, I know you record collector types want to keep this to the actual
>>> label rather than all labels that each company used, but I don't agree
>>> with that.
>>
>> The basic premise of these posts are "continuing my favorites
>> label-by-label".
>> Thats the way thy're compiled and that's the way they'll appear.
>>
>> So yes there'll be A Checker along the way and an Argo too.
>
> I understand that, but different labels issued by the same company are
> just semantics and trivia. I'm a lot more interested in which record
> companies in total had the best material. Atlantic/Atco/Cat should also
> do very well.
>
> Sam Phillips is gaining an advantage here because his output wasn't big
> enough to require a second label until after the company's prime was
> just about over.

Not so. He had a subsidary label running in 1955