North Florida Music Hall of Fame

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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), [...]

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., [...]

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 [...]