In the 1960s, Lelan Rogers ran one of America's most crazed psychedelic labels, the Texas-based International Artists Records (any outfit that can dig up the 13th Floor Elevators, the Red Krayola, and the Bubble Puppy is obviously in touch with their lysergic nature), but his next venture, the lesser-known Silver Fox Records imprint, found Rogers embracing his love of soul music. Between 1968 and 1970, Silver Fox (which Rogers operated with Shelby Singleton, best known a...   [ read more ]

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In 1919 and 1920, jazz had a major impact on pop culture in the United States -- and that impact is impossible to miss on The Phonographic Yearbook: 1920 - Even Water's Getting Weaker. It isn't as though jazz didn't exist before the late 1910s and early '20s; arguably, jazz started in New Orleans around 1895, when the seminal Dixieland cornetist Buddy Bolden (a big influence on King Oliver and Louis Armstrong) formed his first band. But unfortunately, no recordings of Bolden have survived --...   [ read more ]

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Shelby S. Singleton is best known among record collector types as the man who bought Sun Records from Sam Phillips and ran the Plantation label which charted a handful of country hits in the late '60s. But Singleton's SSS International label and its many offshoots (Silver Fox Records, Exit Records, Honor Brigade Records) released some excellent soul and R&B sides in the late '60s and early '70s, and two-dozen high-impact dance tunes from the SSS vaults are featured on...   [ read more ]

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