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Northeast Florida music scene cracked top 10 with 100 signings
Northeast Florida musicians broke out the champagne and blasted the amplifiers in October 2002: Modern rock band 3AE became the 100th area act to snag a record deal.
The RCA Records signing is one of eight contracts garnered by Northeast Florida acts in the past two years. They include mainstream rockers Shinedown (signed with Atlantic), singer-songwriter [...]
The 100
Act
Debut
Genre
Labels
Blake, “Blind”
1926
Blues
Paramount
Canova, Judy
1939
Cabaret
Okeh, Mercury, Varsity
Haines, Connie
1939
Swing
RCA, Coral, Capitol, Mercury, Columbia, Dot
Waterford, Charles “Crown Prince”
1945
R&B, Gospel
King, Capitol
Masters Family
1946
Gospel
Rich-R-Tone, Mercury,Columbia, Decca
Shay, Dorothy
1947
Cabaret
Columbia
Charles, Ray
1949
Blues/Pop
Atlantic, ABC-Paramount, Warner Bros., Columbia
Whitman, Slim
1949
Country
RCA, Imperial, United Artists, Liberty, Cleveland Intl.
Masters, Owen
1950
Pop
Daniels, Billy
1952
Cabaret
Mercury
Sheldon, Jack
1954
Jazz
GNP, Reprise, Capitol, Dot, Atlas, Concord Jazz, Butterfly
Boone, Pat
1956
Pop
Dot, Motown, MCA, Lion & Lamb, Benson, Bear [...]
Swamp Music Project
Several years ago, on the old North Florida Music Association site, we posted a collection of mp3s. As the Internet is truly international, a Chinese site that links to music found these old songs and has linked to them. There are several hundred downloads a month. So for the rest of you, here’s the original [...]
