Black-owned record companies in the 60s and 70s

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You guys are forgetting about Golden World. And don't forget about United Sound. There was one more but it was not complete Me On by black people. There was a husband and wife team that was white and black. My memory is failing me a little bit because I can't remember whether it was on 2nd or 3rd in Detroit.

Gary listed them. Had he not, I would have listed "Ed Wingate's and JoAnn Bratton's Golden World, Ric Tic, Wingate, Maltese[[partner with George Kerr), Love[[partner with Herman Griffin), Standout[[partner with Andre Williams), and then there were DJs- Chicago's Richard Stamz - Fox, Foxy, Paso, Sign) , E. Rodney Jones had a couple, I already mentioned Al Benson's, James Shelton's Daran, Jay-Wes, JDO, New Breed, - Claude Johnson's Trans World Sound, June Bug - George Redmon's Blue Light and Moneytown, etc. There were over 100 more in Chicago, alone, I haven't mentioned yet [[and will not). I don't have time to rifle through all my records. And I have ONLY glanced at the Detroit and Chicago record walls. There are STILL hundreds more little Black-owned "ma and pa" labels run out of homes in New York/NJ Metro Area, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Baltimore, Miami, Atlanta, Memphis, Nashville, New Orleans, Houston, Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Diego I haven't mentioned [[and won't). And even for Chicago and Detroit, I only mentioned 1960s Black-owned labels. There might have been even more than existed during the '60s existing in both cities in the '70s [[which might even be true for all the other major US cities).