[ANPPOM-L] King Records no Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame

[Carlos Palombini]

In September, 1943 Syd Nathan of Cincinnati started King Records. In early
1956, King received a demo from a young Georgia singer named James Brown.
The rest is history. Brown recorded "Please, Please, Please" and "Papa's Got
a Brand New Bag" while with King. Other noted King artists included the
Stanley Brothers, Hank Ballard, Wynonie Harris, and Grandpa Jones.

Sixty-five years later, a local group of enthusiasts and dreamers is
jumpstarting King Records' rebirth. On Sunday, November 23 at 2:00 p.m.,
King Records will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with a
ceremony at 1540 Brewster Avenue in Evanston. A reception will follow at
3:00 p.m. in the Schiff Conference Center of Xavier University's Cintas
Center. Come share your King Stories records and see the plans for King's
rebirth. An RSVP is needed by November 18 to Nancy Hackett at 513-745-3264.

The event is hosted by Xavier University; The Community Building Institute,
a partnership between Xavier and the United Way of Greater Cincinnati;
Flavor of Arts Studio; the Evanston Community Council; SHP Leading Design;
Cincinnati USA Music Heritage Foundation and Ultrasuede Studios.

"King Records is as important to Cincinnati as the Ohio River," says music
historian Larry Nager. King Records started as a country label. After World
War II, Syd Nathan saw that the rhythm and blues market was getting no
attention from established labels. King Records' location in Cincinnati gave
it access to country and black performers touring in the Midwest and the
South.

Its Evanston site was a one-stop shop where everything was done - recording,
making masters, pressing, designing and printing album covers, warehousing
and shipping. Nathan pressed just a few records at a time and drove them to
area radio stations. If they were a hit, he made more. This is why many King
records are so rare.

Over the years community leaders, local politicians and music enthusiasts
have discussed reviving King Records. Two panel discussions and an exhibit
on King Records, organized by music librarian Brian Powers, were held this
past summer at the Main Library downtown. The exhibit King Records: A
Cincinnati Legacy included photographs, publicity shots, vinyl records, ad
material, album art, lyrics, sheet music, scrapbooks, music CDs, business
documents, and Syd Nathan's correspondence. Many of the items were donated
by relatives of King artists, as well as the Nathan family. More recently,
the Evanston site caught the interest of Anzora Adkins, president of the
Evanston Community Council, and Liz Blume, Director of the Community
Building Institute at Xavier. Talk started about making the site a museum.
But the site is landlocked in a dead end.

The Montgomery Road business corridor near the original site, where the
Flavor of Arts <http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov.police/pages/-16499-/> opened
shop several months ago at 3564 Montgomery Road, has been determined a more
feasible location. More than just a museum, the new facility will be a
living entity.

The new site, based on renderings by SHP Leading Architects of Norwood,
calls for a memorial space that can be used for community functions, a
recording studio that will provide apprenticeship opportunities to
neighborhood youth, and the Flavor of Arts Studio, which provides
programming for nearby residents and will serve as a site for arts education
training.

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carlos palombini
<cpalombini em gmail.com>

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