Int_geneChandlerOnHisRecordLabelAndRoyalties_Ayana.mp3
Native Chicagoan Gene Chandler (chart-topping soul singer/songwriter & producer) talks about royalties (payment for the play and/or performance of songs), tells the story behind the song that started his career ("Duke of Earl"), and the record label he started. He also tells us one of his biggest regrets.
By the way... besides being a #1 hit, "Duke of Earl" ("duke-duke-duke-duke-of-earl") has been appropriated in countless ways, among them: sampling by hip-hop group Cypress Hill, and a reworking for a commercial advertising Hellman's "Dijonnaise" (a combination of dijon mustard and mayo
["di-di-di-di-jonn-aise"]).
For more of my interview with Gene, in which we talk about sampling and hip-hop, click here.
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vee jay was black-owned, and started in the fifties. But there were many small labels then, some black owned. Lovin your comment, tho. good info.
if i'm not mistaking i believe Sam Cook was the first to have a black own label and publishing company. he also was a writer and composer of other artist on it.
think his lable was called SAR Records (i have to look in my collect to be sure) but that was 1959 but The label folded 1963 or 64 around the time he died.
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