• Excello Records was an American blues independent record label, started by Ernie Young in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, in 1953 as a subsidiary...
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  • Excello can refer to: Excello Records, a record label Excello, Missouri, a community in Missouri Excello, Ohio, a community in Ohio Ex-Cell-O Corporation...
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  • Slim Harpo (category Excello Records artists)
    suggestion and adopted the name Slim Harpo. His first solo release, for Excello Records, based in Nashville, Tennessee, was "I'm a King Bee", backed with "I...
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  • Lightnin' Slim (category Excello Records artists)
    American blues musician who played Louisiana blues and swamp blues for Excello Records. According to most sources, Otis Hicks was born on a farm outside St...
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    Tennessee, to record for the Excello label. At the time they were going by the name the Royal Charms, but the founder of Excello Records, Ernie Young,...
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  • record producer J. D. "Jay" Miller. In the 1950s, Miller recorded many blues artists around the city, distributing their recordings through Excello Records...
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  • originally recorded by Arthur Gunter in 1954 on the Excello Records label, and covered by Elvis Presley the following year on Sun Records. A line from...
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  • 1951, Young founded Nashboro to issue gospel records, and the following year also created Excello Records to release secular music, especially R&B and...
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    Lazy Lester (category Excello Records artists)
    regional hits recorded with Ernie Young's Nashville-based Excello Records, Lester also contributed to songs recorded by other Excello artists, including...
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  • He recorded it in February 1966 for producer J. D. Miller for a follow-up single to his hugely successful "Baby Scratch My Back". Miller's Excello Records...
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  • Marva Whitney (category Excello Records artists)
    single that was picked up for national distribution by Nashville's Excello records. She retired from recording for several years making only local appearances...
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  • Estrus Records Eternal Records Eulogy Recordings Europa Everest Records Everloving Records Excello Records Excelsior Recordings Exclusive Records Executive...
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  • "Rockin' and Rollin'" by Lil' Son Jackson. Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based Excello Records originally released it in 1957 as the B-side to his debut solo single...
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  • Got Live If You Want It! (EP) (category Decca Records live albums)
    backed with "I'm a King Bee" was Slim Harpo's first single, released by Excello Records in 1957. "Route 66" and "I'm Moving On" appear on December's Children...
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  • Crowley, Louisiana (who also recorded swamp pop tunes for larger national labels, such as Ernie Young's Excello Records label of Nashville). Swamp pop...
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    Arthur Gunter (category Excello Records artists)
    Tennessee, and began recording for Excello Records in 1954. In November 1954, Gunter recorded "Baby Let's Play House" for Excello (2047), which not only became...
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  • James "The Hound" (1994). The Best of Excello Records (Album notes). Various artists. Los Angeles: Excello Records. p. 5. OCLC 70696292. CD 3001. John Wirt...
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  • Team "100 Proof (To the Zoom)" (12"), (cassette), (compact disc) (Excello Records) (1993) "Rockberry Revisited" (1993) Kings of the West Coast (LP) (1986)...
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  • Lonesome Sundown (category Excello Records artists)
    American blues musician, best known for his swamp blues recordings for Excello Records in the 1950s and early 1960s. Green was born in 1928 on the Dugas Plantation...
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  • Little Darlin' (category Mercury Records singles)
    Calypso rhythm. First recorded in January 1957 by Williams' group the Gladiolas, it was quickly released as a single on Excello Records, a small swamp blues...
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  • Moses "Whispering" Smith (category Excello Records artists)
    based in Crowley, Louisiana, and his recordings were released by Excello Records. His singles included the songs "Mean Woman Blues", and "Don't Leave...
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  • Bobby Powell (musician) (category Excello Records artists)
    Baby Washington's hit, "The Bells" (number 45 R&B). He also recorded an LP for Excello Records, Thank You, in 1973. In the mid-1970s he moved to the Hep'...
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    with record labels, including Excello Records, while also drawing attention from Motown and Atlantic Records. She was not signed by big record labels...
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  • From 1962 to 1965, Miller also recorded sides by Silas Hogan, until Miller argued with the new owners of Excello Records and his input to that label dried...
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  • Tabby Thomas (category Maison de Soul Records artists)
    Hollywood Records and then he returned to Baton Rouge. He recorded for several small local labels, before he became more successful with Excello Records, based...
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    to blues music. Started in 1980, it honors people who have performed, recorded, or documented blues. The museum opened to the public on May 8, 2015. "Award...
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    Doug Sahm (category Atlantic Records artists)
    Callahan, introduced him to the records of Howlin' Wolf, Lonesome Sundown, Fats Domino, Jimmy Reed, and Atlantic and Excello Records. In 1955, producer Charlie...
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  • Papa Lightfoot (category Excello Records artists)
    Aladdin Records in 1952, and Imperial Records in 1954. After final singles for Savoy Records in 1955 and Excello Records in 1956, Lightfoot quit recording...
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  • Excello Records "Letter From my Darling" / "Watch You Work it Out" (1968), Excello "That's All I Can Do" / "I Went Off and Cried" (1968), Excello "Frozen...
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    Columbia) Recorded: December 8, 1954 (session 4) Jack Sallee Recorded: December 8, 1954 (session 4) Arthur Gunter. Original: Arthur Gunter (1954, Excello) Recorded:...
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