Bill Moss, Johnson Hawkins Tatum & Durr, Marion Black, Kool Blues, Four Mints, Ronnie Taylor, Elijah & the Ebonites, Antena, Majestic Arrows, Arrows, Linda Balentine, Johnny Davis, Altyrone Deno Brown, Luxury, Tweeds, Colors, Speedies, Shoes, Sponsors, Bats, Randy Winburn, Toms, Kids, Treble Boys, Tommy Rock, Tactics, Finns, LMNOP, Jack Stack A Track, Trend, Fern Jones, Lord Rhaburn, Harmonettes, Jesus Acosta, Professionals, Web, Soul Creations, Nadia Cattouse, Them Two, Moovers, Helene Smith, Freda Gray, Betty Wright, Johnny K Killens & the Dynamites, Frank Williams & the Rocketeers, Paul Kelly, Becky Severson, Collie Ryan, Linda Rich, Caroline Peyton, Carla Sciaky, Judy Kelly, Shira Small, Jennie Pearl, Mary Perrin, Priscilla Quinby, Barbara Sipple, Marj Snyder, Ginny Reilly, Ellen Warshaw, L. Hollis & the Mackadoos, Edd Henry, Bob & Fred, Soul President, Ms. Tyree "Sugar" Jones, Essence, Mae Young, Performers, Sleepwalkers, Manhattens, Grand Prix's.
Anything but another record label. Please, we don't need another one of those clogging up the bins. Accountants with coke habits, lawyers using Pitchfork as a tip sheet, 60 year-old executives awkwardly trying to converse with 17 year-old groupies. Marketing meetings. Junior VP's.
Enter the Numero Group. Founded by Tom Lunt, Rob Sevier, and Ken Shipley in 2003, the three self-proclaimed "record obsessives" decided to approach the record business backwards. No corporate hierarchy; no company stationary. Just a big pile of music that no one had ever heard of.
The mission was simple: to dig deep into the recesses of our record collections with the goal of finding the dustiest gems begging to be released from their exile on geek street. No longer would $500 singles sit in a temperature-controlled room dying for a chance to be played. No more would the artists, writers, and entrepreneurs who made these records happen go unknown and unappreciated.
Numero releases are sound with substance, living at the nexus of song and story. Scrupulously researched, painstakingly re-mastered, and with an attention to detail that is unmatched in the reissue field, the end result is a top-of-the-line compact disc.
There is no "Numero" sound; instead, Numero offers an aesthetic. A shelf of Numero discs feels less like a "record collection" and more like a library. The library to date is a mix of thrift shop soul, skinny tie pop, Belizean funk, and hillbilly gospel. Numero makes records for people who may have everything from indigenous Central American drumming to Canadian chanteuses stacked next to their CD players.
Just dropping by to say Hi and see what you’re up to and how you are doing.
As always, wishing you well. Stay positive, productive & purpose driven.
Peace
Michael
Hello Numero Group!Wishing you a wonderful Summer!Always a Friend& Music Fan,of Numero Group-Melinda P.S.The Eccentric Soul Series is Done so Professional& With good taste!
The Young Disciples Co – “Crumbs From The Tables” Kenneth Carr with John Smart’s Band – “Don’t Hate Let’s Communicate” played on The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show – BBC 6Music. Listen again on http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/funk_soul/
HEY EVERYBODY - BIG NUMERO/TITAN CD RELEASE EVENT AT THE RECORD BAR SATURDAY 11/8 4PM to 7PM. 1020 WESTPORT RD. KANSAS CITY MO. Meet various members form the Titan all-star roster of bands. Free admission ,loads of fun, conversation, listening party... alcohol and food available from the bar . CDs will be for sale along with other merchandise. People are attending from as far away as Chicago - don't be left out in the cold!!! For info visit: http://www. therecordbar. com
congratulation for your collections !!! you are as precious as rhyno's nuggets !!!!!! ( im a french guy ....so i m very proud of your rendition of the classic "camino del sol" by "antena" !!!)
I worship the records you put out! In 2007 I bought 4 of the Essential Soul series and the Four Mints reissue. Hopefully I put some food on your table while you fed me with good soul!
Johnnie Gee story is the stuff of which legends are made.
Home Schooled: The ABC's Of Kid Soul" original artist Formally of the Step By Step Band, performing the 1972 single, "Time After Time".
It is a saga that began in America's heartland at age 13 in Milwaukee Wisconsin, where Johnnie Gee was born on September 29th, 1959 to Elgie and D.W Gee, into a family of seven brothers and sisters.
When Mama Gee, herself a blues lover, noticed her sons' growing interest in music and performing, she devoted herself to the careful development of their nascent talents.
Through hard work and dedication, Johnnie, Dewitt, Jerome, these three brothers and other friends became the hottest band in the Midwest, "The Exclusive 'Step By Step' Band".
The group began performing professionally in and around Milwaukee and Chicago in 1969; later that year, the siblings took their polished song-and-dance act to New York's famed Brunswick Records, the home of Jackie Wilsom, The Chilites, Bohannon, Tyrone Davis, Shalamar, Eugene Records, Decca Records, Chess Records and many more that started record labels worldwide.
Any way 'The Step By Step Band', turned the place out, winning over Nat Tarnopol and a label contract with Brunswick Records.
The staff reaction was welcoming , the founder of the New York-based Brunswick Records, Nat Tarnopol, then the most successful rhythm and blues label around.
Captivated by what they saw and heard, Nat signed the group immediately.
Thus began one of the most successful runs by a recording group in soul, pop, rhythm and blues music history out of the Midwest.
You can go to Brunswick Records web site and read the history of Brunswick and see or original LP listed on page 5 (At the bottom).
MY FAVORITE ! YOU GUYS ARE DOING IT WITH SO MUCH LOVE ! THOSE FOLKS AT THE ONION ARE REALLY REALLY SMART...THANK YOU FOR ALL THE HARD WORK...DON'T EVER STOP !!!
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