Quote Originally Posted by soulster View Post
How about the Carl Davis-era of Brunswick?
I'll be recommending this book til the end of time: "Chicago Soul" by Robert Pruter. This book covers a lot of ground. It gives fairly good glimpses of the R&B Chicago radio scene from roughly the Doo Wop era through the Soul music era. It discusses Black dance movements of the 60's and 70s. Most excellently, it gives a fairly comprehensive rundown on Chicago record companies- from the smallest to the largest. Brunswick is discussed. While the book covers a lot of ground, it does an amazing job of giving you the basic overview/stories of these labels, why they succeeded and why they failed. True, it's not an entire book on Brunswick but you'll find a nice bit to chew on.