• Cadet Records was an American record label that began as Argo Records in 1955 as the jazz subsidiary of Chess Records. Argo changed its name in 1965 to...
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  • John Klemmer (category Cadet Records artists)
    was signed by producer Esmond Edwards at Chess Records, eventually recording five albums with their Cadet label, including his innovative hit 1969 album...
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  • subsidiary labels Checker and Argo/Cadet. The Chess catalogue is owned by Universal Music Group and managed by Geffen Records and Universal Music Enterprises...
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    Terry Callier (category Cadet Records artists)
    Callier (Prestige, 1968) Occasional Rain (Cadet, 1972) What Color Is Love (Cadet, 1972) I Just Can't Help Myself (Cadet, 1973) Fire on Ice (Elektra, 1978) Turn...
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  • band, Cadet Cadets (film), a 1939 German war film Cadet Records, a music record label Cadet (rapper) (1990–2019), English rap musician Éliphène Cadet (born...
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    Rotary Connection (category Cadet Records artists)
    Marshall Chess, son of Chess Records founder Leonard Chess. Marshall was the director behind a start-up label, Cadet Concept Records, and wanted to focus on...
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  • Hang On Sloopy (category Cadet Records singles)
    and blues vocal group the Vibrations were the first to record the tune in 1964. Atlantic Records released it as a single, which reached No. 26 on the Billboard...
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  • Jack McDuff (category Cadet Records artists)
    1999] Cadet/GRT Records The Natural Thing (Cadet/GRT, 1968) Getting Our Thing Together (Cadet/GRT, 1968) -with Richard Evans Gin and Orange (Cadet/GRT,...
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  • Dorothy's Harp (category Cadet Records albums)
    released in 1969 via the Cadet label. A few years after releasing Dorothy’s Harp, she started working with Stevie Wonder. The record includes two Brazilian-touched...
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  • Tell Mama (category Cadet Records albums)
    studio album by American singer Etta James. Her second album release for Cadet Records, produced by Rick Hall at his FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama...
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  • the Dells. Argo changed its name in 1965 to Cadet Records when the company discovered that an Argo Records already existed in the UK. As with its parent...
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    Etta James (category Cadet Records artists)
    was portrayed by singer Beyoncé in the film Cadillac Records, a fictional account of Chess Records, James's label for 18 years, about how label founder...
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    Kenny Burrell (category Cadet Records artists)
    (Verve, 1965) The Tender Gender (Cadet, 1966) Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas (Cadet, 1966) Man at Work (Cadet, 1966) – reissue of A Night at the...
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  • Peachey Dancing (Cuca Records) 1959, Happy Polka Dance Party (Domino Records #100) 1961, Happy Polka Dance Party, Volume II (Cadet Records #101) 1966, Dance...
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  • Electric Mud (category Cadet Records albums)
    psychedelic artwork. In 1967, Marshall Chess formed Cadet Concept Records as a subsidiary of Chess Records. The label's first release was the self-titled debut...
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  • Dorothy Ashby (category Cadet Records artists)
    Tom Montgomery 1968: Afro-Harping (Cadet) 1969: Dorothy's Harp (Cadet) 1970: The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby (Cadet) 1984: Django/Misty (Philips) 1984:...
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    The Dells (category Cadet Records artists)
    was their third certified gold record. The song was written by L.V. Johnson and produced by Don Davis. Leaving Cadet around the end of 1974 with the...
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  • Bunky Green (category Cadet Records artists)
    (Vee-Jay, 1965) – recorded in 1960 Testifyin' Time (Argo, 1965) Playin' for Keeps (Cadet, 1966) Soul in the Night with Sonny Stitt (Cadet, 1966) The Latinization...
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  • I Just Can't Help Myself (category Cadet Records albums)
    Released by Cadet Records in 1973, this is the artist's fourth album since his debut a decade prior and the final of three that he recorded in short succession...
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    Sarah Vaughan (category Cadet Records artists)
    and Blues Revue in 1955 The illustrated encyclopedia of Sarah Vaughan records... and more ! Sarah Vaughan at IMDb Image of Sarah Vaughan performing in...
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  • Afro-Harping (category Cadet Records albums)
    Afro-Harping is an album by jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby recorded in 1968 and released on the Cadet label. Ron Wynn, in his review for Allmusic, calls the...
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  • Hey, Love (category Cadet Records albums)
    album by American psychedelic soul group Rotary Connection released by Cadet Records. Editors at AllMusic rated this album 4 out of 5 stars, with critic...
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    Clarence "Frogman" Henry (category Cadet Records artists)
    "Ain't Got No Home" one night in 1955. Chess Records A&R man Paul Gayten heard the song, and had Henry record it in Cosimo Matassa's studio in September...
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  • What Color Is Love (category Cadet Records albums)
    Callier. Released by Cadet Records, it is Callier's third album and the second of a trilogy that he recorded in short succession for Cadet with producer Charles...
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    The Howlin' Wolf Album (category Cadet Records albums)
    "Black Albums" chart. In 1967, Marshall Chess formed Cadet Concept Records as a subsidiary of Chess Records. The label's first release was the self-titled debut...
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    Ramsey Lewis (category Cadet Records artists)
    pianist, composer, and radio personality. Lewis recorded over 80 albums and received five gold records and three Grammy Awards in his career. His album...
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  • Occasional Rain (category Cadet Records albums)
    Callier. Released by Cadet Records, it is Callier's second album and the first in the trilogy that he recorded in short succession for Cadet with producer Charles...
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    Shel Silverstein (category Atlantic Records artists)
    Don't Have to Brag (Cadet Records) (1965) Drain My Brain (Cadet Records) (1967) Boy Named Sue and Other Country Songs (RCA Records) (1969) Ned Kelly (United...
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    Marlena Shaw (category Cadet Records artists)
    representatives of the Chess Records music label, and soon signed with them. She released her first two albums on their subsidiary Cadet Records. A 1969 album track...
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    Ahmad Jamal (category Cadet Records artists)
    Music Award, Leopolis Jazz Fest, Lviv 1967: Standard Eyes (Cadet) 1972: Inspiration (Cadet) 1974: Re-evaluations: The Impulse! Years (Impulse!) 1980:...
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