Bell Records artists

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 118. Chapters: The Partridge Family, David Cassidy, Davy Jones, Jimmy Webb, The 5th Dimension, Bay City Rollers, Cab Calloway, Burl Ives, Rodney Dangerfield, Al Green, The Delfonics, Solomon Burke, Ronny & the Daytonas, Tommy Dorsey, Quincy Jones, Barry Manilow, April Wine, Suzi Quatro, Cilla Black, Eddie Albert, Roy Rogers, Georgia Gibbs, The Box Tops, Allen Toussaint, Ellie Greenwich, Aaron Neville, Artie Shaw, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Mouse and the Traps, Wally Schirra, Melissa Manchester, Jimmy Dorsey, Labi Siffre, Dick Powell, Lobo, Larry Williams, Connie Stevens, Vicki Lawrence, Lee Hazlewood, Al Wilson, The O'Jays, Tony Orlando, Climax, Shirley Horn, Terry Jacks, The Stampeders, Dale Evans, The Pearls, Kitty Kallen, Marlo Thomas, Bob Crosby, Linda Scott, Tony Orlando and Dawn, The Blossoms, Clifton Chenier, Jimmy Velvit, Merrilee Rush, Edison Lighthouse, Dale Hawkins, Jimmy Jones, Vanity Fare, The Music Machine, Lee Dorsey, The Gentrys, Helen Forrest, Enoch Light, Nino Tempo & April Stevens, Ray Eberle, Sy Oliver, Crazy Elephant, Syndicate of Sound, Rodney Allen Rippy, Fred Hall, Peter Duchin, James & Bobby Purify, Larry Clinton, Wilbert Harrison, Mel Carter, Snooky Lanson, Will Bradley, First Choice. Excerpt: Solomon Burke (March 21, 1940 - October 10, 2010) was an American singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, mortician, and an archbishop of the United House of Prayer For All People. Burke was known as "King Solomon", the "King of Rock 'n' Soul", and as the "Bishop of Soul", and described as "the Muhammad Ali of soul", and as "the most unfairly overlooked singer of soul's golden age". Burke was "the founding father of what was defined as soul music in America in the 1960s", and "a major architect of 1960s soul, infusing post-World War II R&B with gospel roots". and "a key transitional figure bridging R&B and soul", Burke's "sound was a bold merger of orchestrated sophistication and countryish, down-home grit, and his best singles built a Gothic sense of drama and heartbreak. These tracks bridged the gap between the more mannered mainstream rhythm and blues of the Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller songwriting team of the 1950s, as exemplified by the Coasters and Drifters, and the gruffer Southern styles of the later '60s, as heard on the Stax Records sides of Otis Redding and Sam & Dave. At one time considered by Jerry Wexler to be "the greatest male soul singer of all time", Burke was "a singer whose smooth, powerful articulation and mingling of sacred and profane themes helped define soul music in the early 1960s". Burke drew from his roots: gospel, soul, and blues, as well as developing his own style at a time when R&B, and rock were both still in their infancy. Artistically, Burke was influenced by the music of the church, as well as by Little Richard. Described as both "Rabelaisian" and also as a "spiritual enigma", "Perhaps more than any other artist, the ample figure of Solomon Burke symbolized the ways that spirituality and commerce, ecstasy and entertainment, sex and salvation, individualism and brotherhood, could blend in the world of 1960s soul music." During the 55 years that he performed professionally, Burke released 38 studio albums on more than 17 record labels an