Re: CHESS LABEL FAVORITES

On Fri, 9 May 2025 21:57:46 +0000, Bruce wrote:

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

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What Flip?
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How many releases

Seven

and how many releases that anybody would list as an
all time favorite?

Probably none

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.

The point here remains that you were wrong in your statement "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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