cleveland recording company
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in november, musical archivists from chicago - based numero group released
boddie recording company: cleveland, ohio ,
a boxed set that includes 58 songs, three cds, five lps, and two books .
louise boddie and thomas boddie, who passed in 2006, started the region' s first black - owned recording studio on cleveland' s east side. louise sits at a piano in the recording studio in 2010 .
as part of black history month, we remember the husband - and - wife team thomas and louise boddie, who created the first black - owned recording studio in cleveland .
the boddie recording co. recorded a wide array of gospel, soul and jazz artists in the 1960s and 1970s when cleveland had a front row seat to a new musical era .
he wasn' t interested in manicuring acts for the world stage or shaping pop stars ,
says veteran record collector and turntablist dante carfagna, who recently spent a year or so digging through the boddie recording company archives to compile a three cd box set for the chicago - based reissues label numero .
he quickly worked out that the music industry was very hard to break into, very cliqueish, so he made his money recording and pressing people' s records, just providing a service for the people of cleveland .
know our heritage
is inspired by the cleveland restoration society' s 40th anniversary project, the african american experience in cleveland. with support from the ohio history fund, we share with you the important connections between historic sites in cleveland and the significant people and events that shaped them .
boddie never shuttered his company. he died in 2006, but he hadn' t ever considered putting boddie recording company to bed permanently. instead, it faded quietly away, years of incredibly hard work and long hours settling silently under layers of dust in the buildings behind his house. boddie is a footnote to cleveland' s musical history, more or less, but as the city' s premier low - cost studio, he provided a huge service to the city' s music scene for over 20 years. this set pulls some of that service into the light and tells a story with the records he left behind .
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thomas boddie – who, between the years of 1959 and 1993, ran an entirely self - contained and self - sufficient recording and manufacturing operation in the dairy barn behind his house in cleveland, ohio – was no wannabe - berry gordy pop magnate .
taking advantage of the bigger space next door, we built our own recording studio with a green screen to start online video production and marketing. our service offerings continued to expand, and month after month we regularly shattered previous revenue records. in 2010, we were named to the inc. 5000 list of fastest - growing u. s. private companies for the first time, in addition to being named the # 2 fastest - growing company in cleveland by the prestigious weatherhead 100 .
ken hamann began recording as a staff engineer at cleveland recording company. his earliest recordings were
some polka things back in the 1950s. frankie yankovic, georgie cook, eddie habat, and a few of the other famous cleveland - style polkas .
the first rock recording of his that
broke out was the outsiders with' time won' t let me' .
it was recorded on a 3 - track .
the first run - through was strictly drums, guitar, bass. there were solos with the baritone sax, the organ, and so forth on another track. all of the vocals and other effects were on a third track. it took a lot of anticipation because we had to do a lot of sub - mixing. at the time, i remember i thought the organ was too hot, but that turned out to be one of the features of the record .
the late thomas boddie, an electronics whiz, designed his recording equipment to be portable. he' s seen here working at a church convention in birmingham, ala. , in 1985 .
boddie' s interest in recording technology began as a hobby. an amateur electronics whiz, he built his own crystal radios and purchased a lathe - cutter. this hobby snowballed into his life' s work after the boddie recording co opened its doors in 1959, with local gospel and soul groups dropping by to record in his self - built studio and have their tracks cut by boddie' s in - house vinyl manufacturing set - up .
when i first started recording music, my first purchase was a trusty and reliable teac 3340 4 - track reel to reel recorder. that deck worked great for many years. i later upgraded to a fostex 8 - track, ...
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boddie recording co was about self - reliance ,
says carfagna .
that they were a mom' n' pop studio operation that could also manufacture records was unique. and they didn' t want to depend on anyone else for anything. the only things they couldn' t provide themselves were the vinyl pellets from which they made the records. during the oil embargo of the 70s, they couldn' t get these pellets, because the company in kentucky they purchased them from chose to service white businesses before african - american businesses. it only redoubled thomas' s ambition to have the operation be entirely self - sufficient .
the equipment at cleveland recording was evolving over this time .
at the very beginning we used rca broadcast equipment. i found that to be alright but not suitable for some of the things [ i was recording ]. having gone to germany to tour some studios then, in the late 1950s, we decided to move over into german - type of technology, with the use of the flat desk and the faders as we do today. so, i built one. i was able to buy some of those faders out of germany and i built my own console. the first one was a 3 channel output, and i think it had 10 channels of input. it was modest. that was sufficient to work with 3 track recording, which was then just beginning, on tape, and then mix down to 2 track, of course .
both the 3 track and 2 track decks were ampex 351' s, and he used 3m scotch tape .
as we have read in previous editions of know our heritage, the number of african americans in cleveland swelled during the first decades of the twentieth century, as blacks moved from the rural south to the industrial north seeking greater opportunities. one of the most well - known african americans in cleveland during this time period was charles w. chesnutt. born in cleveland on june 20, 1858, chesnutt was the son of two free african americans who had moved north from fayetteville, north carolina. after the civil war, his family moved back to fayetteville, where his father opened a grocery store. chestnutt attended the freedmen' s bureau school, and then he taught first in charlotte and later at the state colored normal school in fayetteville .
a lot of talent here in the city of cleveland ,
louise boddie, now 76, explained recently .
we were just interested in exposing them and thinking that' ok, if someone heard them, they would get a break.'
throughout it all, we’ve never stopped having fun. we’ve seen indians, cavs and lake erie monsters games, cleveland corporate challenges, summer picnics, parking lot cookouts, river cruises and movies, along with susan g. komen fundraisers for breast cancer and lls walks for leukemia and lymphoma. we’ve played whirlyball, volleyball and mini - golf. we’ve rented out parks, took over the rock hall, brought in a kentucky derby, and torn up dance floors at the finest establishments in downtown cleveland. we are fathom .
this mom' n' pop operation truly kicked into gear after boddie met his wife, louise, who established relationships between boddie recording and local churches and gospel choirs .
that was their bread and butter ,
carfagna says .
boddie would press up 300 - album runs for local churches to sell to their parishioners, which kept the business afloat .
while running cleveland' s premier low - cost studio for over 20 years, thomas boddie provided a huge service to the city' s music scene. this 3cd set pulls some of that service into the light and tells a story with the records he left behind .
but it was boddie' s work preserving the soul, gospel and funk scene in cleveland that won him a following among record - collectors, thanks to his in - house labels bounty, luau and soul kitchen. while boddie never scored a chart hit, some of his recordings enjoyed a life far beyond cleveland' s city limits: the badass funk of chrystal illusion by creations unlimited (on soul kitchen) has been sampled by dj shadow, madlib, dj spinna and more, while the headline' s he' s looking for a love (on luau) has been sending northern soul dancefloors wild since the mid - 70s .
flewellen later took the collection to the former hough branch library at 1765 crawford road. this english renaissance revival style building was completed in 1907 and was a fully functioning branch of the library system until 1966, when it became treasure house, a children' s library. when the new hough library was built in 1984, cleveland public library sold the building to the african american museum and it was renamed the ichabod flewellen building. at this time, the african american museum has not been open for several years, although there have been attempts to restore the building and reopen the museum. the flewellen collection of artifacts is now housed at the east cleveland library .
thomas boddie passed away in 2006, after which louise padlocked the studio and its archives, which were left untouched until carfagna began compiling the box set. along with thousands of hours of tape, he also discovered a story of pride and self - sufficiency behind what was cleveland' s first - ever black - owned record label .
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icabod flewellen was born in 1916 in williamson, west virginia. when he was thirteen, he began to collect newspaper clippings dedicated to the history of african americans. in 1949, when his home was firebombed by white supremacists and his collection destroyed, flewellen migrated to cleveland. in cleveland, flewellen again began collecting african - american historical artifacts. he founded the afro - american historical and cultural society in his home at 8716 harkness avenue (pictured left) in the hough neighborhood in 1953. flewellen collected much of this material by going from door to door and asking neighbors about their family histories. eventually he purchased the cuyahoga telephone exchange building at 1839 e. 81st street to hold his collection .
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looking at my pere ubu liner notes, i noted the frequent appearance of the last name
hamann
. after some confusion, i realized that there were two different first names which accompanied it. i learned that ken hamann was the father of paul hamann, and poked around to find that they' d recorded a styrenes single and a girls single. a friend added that ken hamann had recorded a grand funk album. it wasn' t until i talked to the hamanns that i discovered the extent of their history in recording and the rest of the story behind their studio, suma, in painesville, ohio .
for those who may be unaware, this group may very well be one of the greatest cleveland exports to ever walk the streets of ohio' s jewel of the rust belt. however we' re confident that in the very near future the unwashed folks who have yet to experience the crushing beauty of the band will wise up and get hip to the damaged and beautiful music that only the truly sick and sickly true have come to love and appreciate thus far .
the brainchild of cleveland' s weirdo laureate gregory zerik and consistently changing cast featuring the area' s favored misfits and saddened souls, rubella has been churning out some of our favorite damaged pop and dark synth music for years and we' re extremely excited to be working on their next record. some of the other folks out there in the far reaches of the internet have said of past releases
dark synth punk that recalls equal parts units and nine inch nails. required listening for all your weird late night drives of 2016 .
coming out as a collaborative effort between alternative underground, grizzly records, and eleventh hour! originally released as an ep, this will see an expanded track list as our favorite flamenco punks move on up to a fresher stereo sound on glorious 12 inch vinyl. we' ve been fans of gary v' s songwriting ever since the mid - 2000s and this album is no different. chock full of great punk rock and surf hooks and infused with both latino and pop sensibilities, lysc have torn across the country and back on a mission to melt your eardrums and move your feet. hailing from one of our favorite non - cleveland cities in philadelphia pa, the group has already drawn favorable attention from the underground' s esteemed degenerates and high class tastemakers alike. if you haven' t already heard the ep then
none of it is especially polished, and it' s hard to pinpoint the potential hits that never were, because there were so many records like this being made at the time; but there is a certain optimism and spirit of hard work in these recordings that makes them an exciting body of work to listen to all at once. the same can be said of the earlier recordings on disc two, which were mostly released on the luau label. there are some great band names - - the atomic aces and the modern detergents definitely top the list - - and a lot of rollicking r & b on the disc, which works with disc one to paint a picture of the evolving soul scene in cleveland during the era. there was a lot of talent toiling down there in the dead - end clubs, and boddie captured a good cross - section of it .
he smoking tombs may be remembered more fondly outside of their hometown of cleveland than in it, as the band played more shows away from home than inside their fair city. that doesn' t make us like their music one bit less though. started by noted songwriter a. p. hilliard and featuring members of much - beloved bands as drill kitty and the ohio city rollers, the group' s sound crosses lo - fi thinking man' s pop with a hammond organ driven beat. with their non - revivalist, no frills approach to music you' re not going to hear something shiny and new, but you also won' t be hearing a band trying to fit itself a niche either. our closest description might be if the 60s stones played cars songs and were fronted by townes van zandt. expect to see this single towards the end of 2018 .
we went through a period when we were trying to imitate motown sounds in the late 60s. they had unique sounds then. i became very good friends with their chief engineer, mike mclaine, who is more of technical person than a music person. all of the ideas we picked up were not from mike, but rather from their records. mostly their snare drum sounds and the bass. we discovered that a lot of the sound was due to how the drums were tuned and mic' d. we did a lot of experimenting. the bass drum was a lot stiffer usually, and there' s padding put on the surface of the head .
the next few years brought two bands to hamann and the studio which influenced the techniques which he used at the time .
jimmy fox came in with a group called the james gang, featuring joe walsh. then terry knight came in with a new group called grand funk railroad. i did their first several albums, including' closer to home', which is still one of my favorites .
the first grand funk album marked the first use of the studio' s new ampex mm - 1000 16 track two inch, which still resides at suma .
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in this space, a few hundred 45s and lps were prepared for a world that never bothered to hear them. though this release doesn' t strictly fall under the banner of numero group' s long - running soul archeology project eccentric soul, it fits with the spirit of the project, unearthing not just the music made at boddie but also the history and personalities surrounding it - - the old, grainy photographs and detailed histories contained in the two liner - note booklets place the music on these three cds in the context of the people that made it and the place where it was made .
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gallows humor
is set out upon the world .
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for more than 30 years, thomas boddie and his wife manufactured vinyl records of ohio' s local gospel, funk and soul bands in their front room. now they' re available again
fame and fortune eluded thomas boddie in his lifetime but, says carfagna, he didn' t seem to mind too much .
if you look at any photograph of the boddies, they' re always smiling; you see louise working at the stamper – which is a gruelling, nasty job – and she' s all aglow. they were really happy to be doing what they were doing. it wasn' t a toil or a grind; they made a living from it, and they were happy .
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louise describes the work as
a joy
and only regrets that thomas, who died peacefully at 84 years old, isn' t still alive to enjoy the attention .
he worked so hard and struggled so many years - - we both did ,
she said .
new york documentary makers are in the early stages of considering a film, she said. in addition, the box set has received some critical acclaim: a new york times holiday gift guide listed it as
the find among finds .
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i did not experience any skipping like the other reviewer. the whole collection is great, the book and photographs informative... i' ve never had a complaint for numero group' s eccentric soul series .
i don' t know who to blame but i found 3 diff tracks that skipped during playback on 3 diff records. other than that some great tunes ...
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cleveland recording company was a historic recording studio in cleveland , ohio , which produced many hit records in the 1960s and 1970s by artists such as james gang and grand funk railroad . 
cleveland recording company was a historic recording studio in cleveland, ohio, which produced many hit records in the 1960s and 1970s by artists such as james gang and grand funk railroad.
cleveland recording company was a historic recording studio in cleveland, ohio, which produced many hit records in the 1960s and 1970s by artists such as james gang and grand funk railroad.