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Title: A King Records' Record Broken - City Beat/Cincinnati
Post by: mellenheadinohio on September 03, 2010, 07:38:35 pm
A King Records' Record Broken
Posted By: Steven Rosen
September 3, 2010

Thanks to Paul Grein, who writes the "Chart Watch" blog for Yahoo, we now know that one of legendary Cincinnati-based King Records' impressive chart-topping records has been toppled. James Brown's King release Pure Dynamite! Live at the Royal was the last mono-only release to make Billboard magazine's Top 10 until John Mellencamp's new No Better Than This, which recently hit No. 10 in its first week of release.

Brown's album — recorded at the Royal Theater in Baltimore — reached No. 10 in April, 1964, less than a year after his classic Live at the Apollo had been released. This research was prompted by a question from Mellencamp's publicist, Bob Merlis.


http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/blog-1448-a-king-records-record-broken.html