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Savoy Records - Definition and Overview |
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Savoy Records the name of two record labels, one in the United States of America, and the other in the United Kingdom.
Savoy Records (USA)
Savoy Records is a United States record label founded in 1942 by Herman Lubinsky and Ozzier Cadena. The Newark, New Jersey label issued many of the important early bebop jazz albums.
With the rise of Rock and Roll, Lubinsky shifted to more focus on Gospel music. After his death in 1974, Clive Davis (then manager of Arista Records) acquired the label.
African American Newark artists never liked Herman Lubinsky, whom they believed grossly underpaid them for their work.
Tiny Price, a journalist for the black newspaper The Newark Herald News said of Savoy and Lubinsky.
- There's no doubt everybody hated Herman Lubinsky. If he messed with you, you were messed. At the same time, some of those people - many of them Newark's top singers and musicians-would never have been exposed to records if he didn't do what he did. Except for Lubinsky, all the hot little numbers, like Buddy Johnson's 'Cherry' would have been lost. The man may have been hated, but he saved a lot of our history - for us and for future generations.
Savoy Artists
 USA Savoy disc of the 1940s
Further reading
"Swing City:Newark Nightlife, 1925-1950," by Barbara K. Kukla.
External links
Savoy Records (UK)
Savoy Records is also a British label based in Manchester.
External link
- Savoy UK (http://www.abel.net.uk/~savoy/1records.html)
See also
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