Chief Records
Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Chief Records, together with its Profile and Age subsidiaries, was an independent record label that operated from 1957 to 1964. Best known for its recordings of Chicago blues artists Elmore James, Junior Wells, Magic Sam, and Earl Hooker, the label had a diverse roster and included R&B artists Lillian Offitt and Ricky Allen.
Chief Records was founded in Chicago in 1957 by Mel London, a 25-year-old R&B entrepreneur.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". London served as producer and wrote several of the label's best-known songs. Earl Hooker, one of the most well-regarded blues guitarists of his era,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". was an important contributor to the label. He worked closely with London and "was involved in over a dozen recording sessions, and his playing was featured on some forty titles and twenty-five singles, a dozen of which were released under his own name, the rest being ascribed to Junior Wells, A.C. Reed, Lillian Offitt, and Ricky Allen".Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Among Hooker's recordings are several slide-guitar instrumentals, including the 1961 Age single "Blue Guitar", which Muddy Waters later overdubbed a vocal and titled it "You Shook Me".
"Little by Little", written by Mel London, was a hit for Junior Wells, reaching number 23 in the Billboard R&B chart in 1960.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Wells continued to perform and record several of his Chief and Profile songs ("Messin' with the Kid", "Come on in This House", and "It Hurts Me Too") during his career. "Cut You Loose", another London composition, was a hit for Ricky Allen; the song reached number 20 in 1963.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Next to Wells, Allen had the most singles on the label (all on Age).
As with many independent blues labels in the early 1960s, Chief was plagued by financial problems.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". First to be discontinued were the Chief and Profile labels; finally the Age label was discontinued in 1964 and the company went out of business.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". During its seven years of operation, Chief/Profile/Age released about 80 singles (including reissues) from approximately 37 artists. Later, various singles (including reissues) by Chief artists were released by All-Points Records, Mel/Mel-Lon Records, Bright Star Records, and Starville Records, but none had the impact of the originals.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Partial discography
| Year | Artist | Title (A-side / B-side) |
Label | Cat. no. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Script error: No such module "sort". | "Man from the Island" / "Doggin' Me Around" |
Chief | 7000 |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | "Coming Home" / "The Twelve Year Old Boy" |
Chief | 7001 | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | "It Hurts Me Too" / "Elmore's Contribution to Jazz" |
Chief | 7004 | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | "Two Headed Woman" / "Lovey Dovey Lovely One" |
Chief | 7005 | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | "Cry for Me" / "Take Me Where You Go" |
Chief | 7006 | |
| 1958 | Script error: No such module "sort". | "I Could Cry" / "Cha Cha Cha in Blue" |
Chief | 7008 |
| 1960 | Script error: No such module "sort". | "Little By Little" / "Come on in This House" |
Profile | 4011 |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | "Will My Man Be Home Tonight" / "The Man Won't Work" |
Chief | 7012 | |
| Magic Sam & the Ammons Sisters |
"Mister Charlie" / "My Love Is Your Love" |
Chief | 7013 | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | "Oh Mama" / "My Man Is a Lover" |
Chief | 7015 | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". (A) / Earl Hooker (B) |
"Galloping Horses A Lazy Mule" (A) / "Blues in D Natural" (B) |
Chief | 7016 | |
| Magic Sam | "Square Dance Rock Part 1" / "Square Dance Rock Part 2" |
Chief | 7017 | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". (A) / Earl Hooker (B) |
"Knocking at Your Door" (A) / "Calling All Blues" (B) |
Chief | 7020 | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | "Messin' with the Kid" / "Universal Rock" |
Chief | 7021 | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | "You Don't Care" / "Prison Bars All Around Me" |
Profile | 4013 | |
| 1961 | Magic Sam | "Every Night About This Time" / "Do the Camel Walk" |
Chief | 7026 |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | "I'm a Stranger" / "Things I'd Do for You" |
Chief | 7030 | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | "Rockin' with the Kid" / "Rockin' Wild" |
Chief | 7031 | |
| Magic Sam | "You Don't Have to Work" / "Blues Light Boogie" |
Chief | 7033 | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | "You Sure Look Good to Me" / "Lovey Dovey Lovely One" |
Chief | 7034 | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | "It Hurts Me Too" / "Cha Cha Cha in Blue" |
Chief | 7035 | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | "So Tired" / "Love Me" |
Chief | 7037 | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | "I Need Me a Car" / "I Could Cry" |
Chief | 7038 | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". (A) / Earl Hooker (B) |
"This Little Voice" (A) / "Apache War Dance" (B) |
Age | 29101 | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | "You'd Better Be Sure" / "You Were My Teacher" |
Age | 29102 | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | "Blue Guitar" / "Swear to Tell the Truth" |
Age | 29106 | |
| 1962 | Script error: No such module "sort". | "Nothing but Poison" / "Nothing but Good" |
Age | 29110 |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | "How Long Can This Go On" / "These Cotton Pickin' Blues" |
Age | 29111 | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | "Mean Cop" / "That Ain't Right" |
Age | 29112 | |
| Big Moose & the Jams |
"The Bright Sound" Template:A.k.a. "Bright Sounds" / "Off the Hook" |
Age | 29113 | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". & the Earlettes |
"Win the Dance" Template:A.k.a. "Crying Blues" / "That Man" |
Age | 29114 | |
| 1963 | Script error: No such module "sort". | "Cut You A-Loose" / "Faith" |
Age | 29118 |
| Script error: No such module "sort". with Earl Hooker Band |
"Want You to Rock Me" / "Down in My Heart" |
Mel-Lon | 1000 | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". / "Blues in D Natural" |
Mel-Lon | 1001 | |
| 1964 | Script error: No such module "sort". | "Lotta Loving" / "I Stay Mad" |
Age | 29123 |
| 1964 | Script error: No such module "sort". | "Help Me Mama" / "The Big Fight" |
Age | 29125 |
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