Record Origins

[John Elias]

Just started categorising my collection into which part of the USA they originate from.

Now apart from the obvious, reading record labels and or checking Mr Manship's site aswell as music styles akin to certain areas, wondered if it is ever possible to acheive 100% on this and also any of you anoraks out there can throw up any tips here.

[Dave Rimmer]

Just started categorising my collection into which part of the USA they originate from.

Now apart from the obvious, reading record labels and or checking Mr Manship's site aswell as music styles akin to certain areas, wondered if it is ever possible to acheive 100% on this and also any of you anoraks out there can throw up any tips here.

Don't think you'll ever manage it. Obviously some records, by virtue of the label they are on are obvious. But then you get a label like Checkmate (From Chicago) which released almost 100% Detroit recordings. Big Wheel is another, the label is supposedly New York based, but the artists are all Detroit artists.

Then you come to labels like Blue Rock, which as a subsiduary of Mercury, could release stuff from all over the States. Loma is the same, it was specifically set up to release black artists who were signed to Warner Brothers, but they could be from anywhere in the States. Clearly you could narrow it down by looking at what else an artist released, who wrote it, who arranged or produced it, that sort of thing, Unfortunatly you then hit things like the tracks that were produced in Chicago, or Detroit, on a variety of artists, by the same production team.

Take Jack Montgomery for instance. Four releases in total. Two on Detroit labels (Austens, Barracuda), one on a New York label (Scepter), and one on a Chicago label (Revue), all Detroit recordings though.

Good luck !

[boba]

Don't think you'll ever manage it. Obviously some records, by virtue of the label they are on are obvious. But then you get a label like Checkmate (From Chicago) which released almost 100% Detroit recordings. Big Wheel is another, the label is supposedly New York based, but the artists are all Detroit artists.

Then you come to labels like Blue Rock, which as a subsiduary of Mercury, could release stuff from all over the States. Loma is the same, it was specifically set up to release black artists who were signed to Warner Brothers, but they could be from anywhere in the States. Clearly you could narrow it down by looking at what else an artist released, who wrote it, who arranged or produced it, that sort of thing, Unfortunatly you then hit things like the tracks that were produced in Chicago, or Detroit, on a variety of artists, by the same production team.

Take Jack Montgomery for instance. Four releases in total. Two on Detroit labels (Austens, Barracuda), one on a New York label (Scepter), and one on a Chicago label (Revue), all Detroit recordings though.

Good luck !

a good starting point might be several regional soul discography websites on the web:

www.ohiosoulrecordings.com

www.dcsoulrecordings.com

https://www.carolinasoul.org

https://www.newyorksoulrecordings.com/

https://www.georgiasoul.com/

[John Elias]

Thanks chaps,new it wasn't gonna be easy