Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail 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 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: References: <61c6618feb05a1abb0c2f9dcc865912d@www.novabbs.com> <3ca5966bf7c0f621d990875cc31b3b2a@www.novabbs.com> <16f78c7c63d85c9f9d67746fb49b4c20@www.novabbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="3846142"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="RdTzbdQMl4AomIx1b1xqthAcwov5mMFuDRq4vmkpdJQ"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$udk54NrAdEQsSqZ9jNOvheBa7M54hterbfMzsRMjsh5neZTKISMim X-Rslight-Posting-User: ea0fd7aeb10ce4c545d8ca4480c1c21858dd33aa Bytes: 2399 Lines: 32 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