Re: CHESS LABEL FAVORITES

On Fri, 9 May 2025 19:58:31 +0000, Roger wrote:

On Fri, 9 May 2025 18:21:59 +0000, Bruce wrote:
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On Fri, 9 May 2025 17:56:33 +0000, Roger wrote:
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On Fri, 9 May 2025 16:58:11 +0000, Bruce wrote:
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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.
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Chess/Checker/Argo released lots of great records in the 60s. Sun's last

great release was in 1958.
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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.

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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.
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So yes there'll be A Checker along the way and an Argo too.

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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.
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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.

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Not so. He had a subsidary label running in 1955

What Flip?
How many releases, and how many releases that anybody would list as an
all time favorite?  I think there are only 6 releases on the label. It's
not like he released a bunch of classic records on the label like
Leonard Chess did with Checker. The point remains the same.
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