Chi Sound Records

Chi Sound Records
Chi Sound Records
Founded 1976
Status active
Distributor(s) United Artists Records (1975 - 1978)
20th Century Records (1978 - 1981)
Independent (1982 - 1983, 1989 - 1990, 2007 - present)
Genre various
Country of origin USA
Official Website Chi Sound

Chi-Sound Records is an independent record label set up in 1976 by established Chicago record producer Carl Davis. He had been involved in the music industry since the early 1960s working with locally-based labels including Vee-Jay and Okeh, a subsidiary of the major Columbia Records. He produced Gene Chandler's number One hit, "Duke Of Earl" for Vee-Jay. Later, as A&R chief for Okeh, he produced a run of hits with writer/singer Curtis Mayfield, for another Chicago artist, Major Lance, including "The Monkey Time" and "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um". Davis left Okeh after it was merged with Epic Records in a dispute with Epic management over side projects outside Epic/Okeh.

History

In the mid-60s, Davis took over creative control of Brunswick Records (at that time a sublabel of Decca Records) and oversaw many hits for that label and another label Davis founded, Dakar Records, over the next five to six years for Chicago artists like The Chi-Lites, Tyrone Davis (no relation), Barbara Acklin, The Artistics, Young-Holt, and Gene Chandler, as well as Jackie Wilson. When Brunswick/Dakar folded in 1974, Davis decided to start his own label.

Originally distributed as a custom label by United Artists Records during 1976 and 1977, the output, including several albums by Walter Jackson, was moderately successful. In 1978, it switched its distribution to 20th Century Records, which saw Davis signing up other previously successful Chicago-based artists. Gene Chandler recorded the #3 Billboard R&B hit, "Get Down", a huge disco hit in 1978/79, and Davis then brought on board The Chi-Lites (with lead vocalist and producer Eugene Record also taking an executive post), The Dells and The Impressions. Other important R&B hits included "Does She Have A Friend" by Chandler and "Hot On A Thing" by The Chi-Lites.

When the 20th Century deal ended in 1981 (at the same time was sold to PolyGram in 1981 and absorbed into Casablanca Records), Chi-Sound was wound down with Davis using independent distribution for spasmodic releases for 2 years. Gene Chandler stayed for one more minor hit but the other acts moved on. Due to financial problems, it closed down in 1983. It had a brief revival in 1989, but closed down again in 1990.

Davis reopened Chi Sound Record label in January 2007. This time, it also ventured into Hip Hop.

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