Editing Brunswick Records (section)

===1957–1979/R&B===
[[Image:reetpetite.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Jackie Wilson's [[Reet Petite|debut single]] was the first release of the current Brunswick Records.]]
Starting in the latter part of the 1950s and continuing well into the 1970s, the label recorded mainly R&B/soul acts, such as the label's leading artist in the late 1950s and early/mid 1960s, [[Jackie Wilson]], and later on, [[the Chi-Lites]]. Jackie Wilson's manager, [[Nat Tarnopol]], joined the label in 1957 as head of [[A&R]].<ref name="LarkinGE"/> Brunswick became a separate company and a unit of Decca in 1960 with Tarnopol serving as executive vice-president.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oR0EAAAAMBAJ&q=brunswick+%2B+tarnopol&pg=PA6 |title=''The Billboard'', 26 September 1960, p.6, col.6 |date=1960-09-26 |access-date=2014-06-29}}</ref> He acquired a 50% interest in Brunswick from Decca in 1964 and then the rest of Brunswick from Decca in 1969 to settle disputes with Decca management. [[Nat Tarnopol]] worked with R&B singer Jackie Wilson.<ref>[https://www.brunswickrecords.com/  Brunswick Records] Retrieved 8 march 2023</ref>

[[Image:That'll Be The Day-55009.jpg|left|thumb|200px|During the 1950s, the artists on Brunswick and [[Coral Records|Coral]] were interchangeable. This single by [[Buddy Holly and the Crickets]], who were signed to Coral, was released on Brunswick.]]

Many of the recordings which established Brunswick as a major force in R&B and soul music in the mid-1960s and into the 1970s were supervised by producer [[Carl Davis (record producer)|Carl Davis]] in Chicago.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> He joined the label after helping to revive Jackie Wilson's recording career with his production on Wilson's 1966 hit, "Whispers". Wilson and Davis collaborated the following year for one of the label's biggest selling singles, "Higher And Higher", which sold over two million copies (No. 1 R&B, No. 5 pop). [[The Chi-Lites]] recorded two No. 1 R&B hits in the 1970s for Brunswick, "Have You Seen Her" and "Oh Girl", both co-written and co-produced by lead singer, Eugene Record. "Oh Girl" also topped the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]. Davis formed a sister label, [[Dakar Records]], in 1969, with Tyrone Davis (no relation) becoming its main artist and a major-selling R&B act. Dakar was first distributed by [[Atlantic Records]] for two years, but moved under Brunswick distribution from January 1972, after the company became independent from Decca.

Brunswick and Dakar artists included [[the Chi-Lites]],<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Chi-Lites R&B Single Chart |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/the-chi-lites/chart-history/bsi/ |magazine=Billboard | access-date=7 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Chi-Lites Pop Chart Singles |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/the-chi-lites |magazine=Billboard | access-date=7 March 2023}}</ref> [[Hamilton Bohannon]], Tyrone Davis, Jackie Wilson, Barbara Acklin, Young-Holt Unlimited, Gene Chandler, the Artistics, Otis Leavill, the Lost Generation, Walter Jackson, Erma Franklin,  Willie Henderson & the Soul, Maryann Farra & Satin soul, Strutt, Touch, Sunny Nash<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/3293746-Sunni-Nash|title=Sunni Nash|website=Discogs.com|access-date=17 August 2021}}</ref> and [[Little Richard]]. Main producers for the labels, along with Davis, were Eugene Record, Willie Henderson and later, Leo Graham, while staff arrangers during the Chicago years included [[Sonny Sanders]], Tony Moulton Quinton Joseph and Willie Henderson.

The Chi-Lites' "Oh Girl" was the label's only release from post-1957 to reach the top of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, but Brunswick and Dakar managed to top the R&B chart a total of 10 times during the same period, six by Jackie Wilson and two each by Tyrone Davis and the Chi-Lites.

Legal problems caused Brunswick to become dormant after 1982, in which Tarnopol licensed Brunswick recordings from 1957 onwards to the special products unit of [[Columbia Records]]. Brunswick had its last chart hits in 1982.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://brunswickrecords.com/store.htm |title=The soul of the 60s and 70s |publisher=Brunswick Records |access-date=2014-04-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130307220936/http://www.brunswickrecords.com/store.htm |archive-date=2013-03-07 }}</ref> Although Brunswick was eventually cleared of the charges, the situation, which had resulted in court action, left both the label and Tarnopol in financial difficulties. By then, Carl Davis and most of the artists had left the company. Tarnopol blamed his legal problems on a personal vendetta led by [[Lew Wasserman]], the head of Decca's parent corporation, [[MCA Inc.]]<ref>{{cite book
|last=McDougal
|first=Denis
|title=The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood
|year=2001
|publisher=Da Capo Press
|isbn=9780306810503
|page=439
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8zV1aziv9CYC&q=brunswick+%2B+tarnopol&pg=PA439}}</ref> Tarnopol died in 1987 at age 56.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://brunswickrecords.com/history5.htm |title=The soul of the 60s and 70s |publisher=Brunswick Records |access-date=2014-04-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130107221842/http://brunswickrecords.com/history5.htm |archive-date=2013-01-07 }}</ref>