• the label changed its name to Stax Records in 1961. It also shared its operations with sister label Volt Records. Stax was influential in the creation...
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  • Ltd, a Japanese brand of electrostatic headphones Stax Records, an American record company Lay's Stax, a brand of potato snack chips sold by Lay's This...
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    The Stax Museum of American Soul Music is a museum located in Memphis, Tennessee, at 926 East McLemore Avenue, the original location of Stax Records. Stax...
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  • Stax: Soulsville U.S.A. is an American documentary series directed and produced by Jamila Wignot. It follows the history of Stax Records and the impact...
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    Donald "Duck" Dunn (category Stax Records artists)
    musician, record producer, and songwriter. Dunn was notable for his 1960s recordings with Booker T. & the M.G.'s and as a session bassist for Stax Records. At...
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  • Al Bell (category Stax Records)
    an American record producer, songwriter, and record executive. He is best known as having been an executive and co-owner of Stax Records, based in Memphis...
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    Colonel", is an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is the guitarist of the Stax Records house band, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, which backed...
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    Isaac Hayes (category Stax Records artists)
    the Southern soul music label Stax Records, serving as both an in-house songwriter and as a session musician and record producer, teaming with his partner...
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    Booker T. & the M.G.'s (category Stax Records artists)
    Mar-Keys, the rotating slate of musicians that served as the house band of Stax Records, they played on hundreds of recordings by artists including Wilson Pickett...
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  • December 5, 2022) was an American record producer and executive who in 1957 co-founded, with his sister Estelle, Stax Records, one of the leading recording...
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    Booker T. & the M.G.'s, a group of session musicians who worked for Stax Records and produced their own instrumentals. Jackson was affectionately dubbed...
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    Sam & Dave (category Atlantic Records artists)
    gospel church to pop music with their call-and-response records. Recorded primarily at Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, from 1965 through 1968, these...
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    became popular for dancing and listening, where U.S. record labels such as Motown, Atlantic and Stax were influential during the Civil Rights Movement....
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  • shimmering, sultry style produced in the 1960s and 1970s at Stax Records and Hi Records in Memphis, Tennessee, featuring melodic unison horn lines, organ...
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  • the Year. Concord Records purchased the Fantasy Label Group in 2004, and in December 2006 announced the reactivation of the Stax Records label as a forum...
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  • Partee Records was a daughter label of Stax Records which was specialized in comedy music. List of record labels v t e...
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  • the 1970s. The band released several albums on We Produce Records, an offshoot of Stax Records. In 1972, the band performed in front of more than 100,000...
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    William Bell (singer) (category Stax Records artists)
    Stax Records, he is unrelated to the label's onetime president, Al Bell. In 2017, Bell was awarded a Grammy for Best Americana Album for his record This...
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  • Wattstax was a benefit concert organized by Stax Records to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1965 riots in the African-American community of...
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  • lead guitarist for the local band, The Memphis Blazers. He was hired by Stax Records in the late 1960s as an engineer and also quickly began doing studio...
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  • Green Onions (category Stax Records singles)
    subsidiary of Stax Records) as the B-side of "Behave Yourself" on Volt 102; it was quickly reissued in August 1962 as the A-side of Stax 127, and it also...
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  • Estelle Axton (category Stax Records)
    September 11, 1918 – February 24, 2004) was an American record executive and co-founder of Stax Records, along with her brother Jim Stewart. Born in Middleton...
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    Redding. Its position was greatly improved by its distribution deal with Stax. In 1967, Atlantic became a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Bros.-Seven...
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    Carla Thomas (category Stax Records artists)
    Satellite Records, which eventually became Stax Records. Recorded when Thomas was still attending Hamilton High School in Memphis, the record drew enough...
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  • Rufus Thomas (category Stax Records artists)
    recorded for several labels, including Chess Records and Sun Records in the 1950s, before becoming established in the 1960s and 1970s at Stax Records...
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    David Porter (musician) (category Stax Records artists)
    classmates to record for the Satellite label, including Booker T. Jones, William Bell, and Andrew Love. Soon after, Satellite rebranded as Stax Records and redefined...
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    Booker T. Jones (category Stax Records artists)
    the attention of record executive Jim Stewart in Memphis, and while still in high school he worked as a staff musician for Stax Records, appearing as sideman...
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    Hip Records was a daughter label of Stax Records. It was formed around 1967 for the purpose of recording and releasing material by Memphis and regional...
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    Otis Redding (category Stax Records artists)
    premature death devastated Stax. Already on the verge of bankruptcy, the label soon discovered that the Atco division of Atlantic Records owned the rights to...
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    Johnnie Taylor (category Stax Records artists)
    and gospel to pop, doo-wop, and disco. He was initially successful at Stax Records with the number-one R&B hits "Who's Making Love" (1968), "Jody's Got...
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