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Dial Records was a Nashville-based soul label owned by song publisher/plugger/producer Buddy Killen in 1961.〔http://acerecords.co.uk/the-dial-southern-soul-story〕 This label was formed specifically so Killen could record perhaps his best-known discovery, soul singer Joe Tex.〔http://www.bsnpubs.com/florida/dial/dial.html〕 After a few tries and misses, Tex came up with a song called "Hold What You've Got," a ballad that bridged traditional rhythm and blues with the emerging Southern soul style and also pointed toward a future of rap thanks to Tex's spoken, almost testifying homily midway through the song. (Tex, in fact, was actually nicknamed "The Rapper" in these years.") "Hold What You've Got" got Killen's Dial label a distribution deal with Atlantic Records. Joe Tex was the anchor star of this Dial label (he rolled up almost thirty soul hits, some of which hit the pop charts, especially "Skinny Legs and All" and "I Gotcha") until he all but retired from music in the 1970s and died of a heart attack at age 49. Dial had a few distributors over the years including London Records, Atlantic Records, Mercury Records, Epic Records and T.K. Records. Killen shut down the label in 1979 to concentrate on his other music interests. He owned Tree Publishing. Sony/ATV Music Publishing owns the Dial Records catalogue today.〔http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080804005870&newsLang=en〕 ==Artists== * Joe Tex * Bobby Marchan * Clarence Reid * Paul Kelly * Chris Harris & The Soul Agents * Clarence "Frogman" Henry * Gunilla Hutton * Frederick Knight * Annette Snell * King Floyd * Jean Knight * Little Archie * Len Wade * Wayne Handy 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dial Records (1964)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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