He also helped many DJs get their start, including Vivian Carter who later formed Vee-Jay Records. His on-air support and occasional partnerships with the Chess brothers proved crucial to their early success. In addition, their uncle Al Benson was the most influential Radio DJ on Chicago's South Side at the time. They did all of this before launching United Record Distributors in 1950 – regarded as the nation's first black owned record distributor. Before long, George was an assistant to legendary blues producer Lester Melrose, and later the brothers helped run Parkway Records – recording historic 78s featuring Little Walter and Muddy Waters. Nearly 20 years prior, George and Ernie started work at their sister's Groove Record Shop.
It wasn't uncommon for a WVON DJ to help One-derful! sign their newest discovery, or for their singers, musicians, songwriters, or producers to have Chess or Motown on their resumes.
They distributed material from labels like Motown and Stax and One-derful! attracted top talent. By 1962 when brothers George and Ernie Leaner started One-derful! Records, they were revered figures on Chicago's Record Row and beyond. In addition, some of the world's leading experts have contributed liner notes and interviewed virtually every known surviving artist, producer, and otherwise involved party. T hese compilations bring forth a wealth of overlooked and never before heard recordings and history.Ĭentral to One-derful! is the Leaner family. We have spent two painstaking years of research and work, including countless hours spent cataloging, transferring, and mastering 250 of the label's tapes, to put together an amazingly extensive reissue collection. The Deluxe Subscription includes both the LP and CD formats of the subscription, and all of the bonus 45s and bonus CD, for $40 less than buying each separately.īetween 19, the One-derful! family of labels released 180+ 45s of stunning soul, funk, and gospel. The seventh CD of Bonus material is available only as part of the subscription!
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By subscribing to the CD version of the One-derful! Collection, you will receive all six releases on CD plus a seventh CD featuring all 14 tracks from the bonus 45s. The Collection is also available in CD format. The One-derful! Subscription will bring you the six compilations, all six bonus 45s, plus a seventh bonus 45 - The Jackson Five's unreleased first recording of "Big Boy" - only available as part of the subscription!
Stash subscription full#
The One-derful! Collection is a six volume series ( totaling 12 LPs or 6 CDs) featuring 147 tracks, 57 of which were never issued, and 144 pages of 12” x 12” liner notes stuffed full of rare and seldom seen photos. Each installment of the One-derful! Collection is available in 2xLP and CD formats, with the first 500 copies of each LP release including a limited edition bonus 45. Thus the ‘secret’ part of the Secret Paper Stash subscription.The Jackson Five Bonus 45 is only available through the One-derful! Subscription * Note: the papers shown here are examples of what you may get, and not what you will exactly get. Orders are shipped within 10-14 business days after your payment clears each month.Ĭancel your subscription anytime. Sometimes they’re not even remotely rectangular!īy subscribing, you’ll be automatically billed $10 every month. I open it up to new subscribers 1-2 times a year (it’s a one-woman show and I can only handle a certain number of Secret Paper Stash Subscribers)Īverage paper size ranges from 3 in. Sugar-cane paper printed with a woodcut image, river-mud paper with cyanotype, textured fern paper, embedded lily-pads or gilded with copper leaf…definitely not yawn-inducing like bills or those crappy flyers that keep coming for no apparent reason.Įach month, you get one paper + a handwritten note about the paper Even I get surprised by what I find in my studio stash. Start your collection of exclusive artist-made papers-you’ll be surprised every month by what you get. SERIOUSLY, I WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO DUPLICATE THE PAPER I SEND YOU EVER AGAIN. EACH PAPER IS RANDOM, AND DIFFERENT EACH MONTH. I’ll tuck the paper in an envelope with a note on its story. Every month, you’ll get one sample of whatever random art paper I dig up from my secretive studio stash. Introducing the Secret Paper Stash monthly subscription. That’s why, if you really want to get a sense of my artwork-you gotta get your actual hands on it! And much of handmade paper gets lost in translation on a computer screen.
It’s made lovingly in collaboration with just plants and water. It’s this human, soulful, romantic, nothing-else-like-it, object. Here’s the deal with paper made by an artist. And you love my artwork, but collecting a piece is a big decision. It’s hard to get your hands on artistic handmade paper you keep hearing about. $10.00 every month Almost-Art, Offbeat Papers That No One Else Has.
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