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H a r t l e y F o x J o n Foreword by Dave Alvin KING OF THE QUEEN CITY Music in American Life • • • A list of books in the series appears at the end of this book. King of the Queen City THE STORY OF KING RECORDS Jon Hartley Fox Foreword by Dave Alvin (cid:54)(cid:79)(cid:74)(cid:87)(cid:70)(cid:83)(cid:84)(cid:74)(cid:85)(cid:90)(cid:1)(cid:80)(cid:71)(cid:1)(cid:42)(cid:77)(cid:77)(cid:74)(cid:79)(cid:80)(cid:74)(cid:84)(cid:1)(cid:49)(cid:83)(cid:70)(cid:84)(cid:84) (cid:54)(cid:83)(cid:67)(cid:66)(cid:79)(cid:66)(cid:1)(cid:66)(cid:79)(cid:69)(cid:1)(cid:36)(cid:73)(cid:74)(cid:68)(cid:66)(cid:72)(cid:80) © 2009 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America c 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ This book is printed on acid-free paper. Each photo that is courtesy of © Gusto Records, Inc., Nashville, TN, is under the exclusive copyright of King Records, Inc. Unauthorized use is prohibited. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fox, Jon Hartley. King of the Queen City : the story of King Records / Jon Hartley Fox ; foreword by Dave Alvin. p. cm. — (Music in American life) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-252-03468-8 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. King Record Company—History. 2. Sound recording industry—Ohio— Cincinnati—History. I. Title. ml3792.k56f69 2009 338.7'61781640973—dc22 2009015035 This is dedicated to my parents, Lyle and Ellen Fox, who taught me to love reading, history, and music, and to my wife and partner, Kathryn Barwick, without whose encouragement and support this book would not exist. Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t. • Mark Twain • “Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar” in Following the Equator, 1897 CONTENTS Foreword by Dave Alvin xi Preface xv One Syd Starts a Record Company 1 Two The Hillbilly Boogie 12 Three The King Gets a Queen 22 Four Henry Glover 26 Five Good Rockin’ Tonight 32 Six Where the Hell’s the Melody? 42 Seven Business as Usual Was Pretty Unusual 50 Eight Masters of the Groove 63 Nine I’ll Sail My Ship Alone 74 Ten Record Man 86 Eleven The Sixty-Minute Men 94 Twelve You Give Me Fever 108 Thirteen Every Time I Feel the Spirit 117

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King of the Queen City is the first comprehensive history of King Records, one of the most influential independent record companies in the history of American music. Founded by businessman Sydney Nathan in the mid-1940s, this small outsider record company in Cincinnati, Ohio, attracted a diverse ros
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