{"id":211,"date":"2007-04-19T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=211"},"modified":"2010-03-22T15:59:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:59:29","slug":"harlem-week-of-42307-imperial-records-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2007\/04\/19\/harlem-week-of-42307-imperial-records-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Harlem &#8211; Week of 4\/23\/07 &#8211; Imperial Records Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This week, HARLEM salutes one of the most influential record labels in the development of rock n&#8217; roll&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida grande;font-size:180%;color:#990000;\"><strong>Imperial Records<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexjansen.com\/marsh\/by_label\/image\/imperial.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lexjansen.com\/marsh\/by_label\/image\/imperial.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\"><strong>Lew Chudd formed IMPERIAL RECORDS in 1946 in Los Angeles to better serve the Mexican and ethnic community. By 1949 his sights were set on another musical form that was being ignored by the major labels, New Orleans rhythm &#038; blues. He hired bandleader Dave Bartholomew to be his New Orleans A&R; man and producer and rest is R&B; history. Bartholomew signed Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis and The Spiders and Imperial had a soul bucket full of hit records that would end up becoming Rock n&#8217; Roll staples. Get the story behind the story of IMPERIAL RECORDS with Matt The Cat, this week on HARLEM.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#6600cc;\"><strong>Harlem Airs On The 50s on 5:<br \/><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#ff99ff;\"><strong>Monday afternoon 4\/23 @ 1pm over Baltimore, MD<br \/>Tuesday evening 4\/24 @ 9pm PST and Midnight EST<br \/>Friday night 4\/27 @ 6pm over Seaside Heights, NJ<br \/>Sunday morning 4\/29 @ 11am over Philly, PA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, HARLEM salutes one of the most influential record labels in the development of rock n&#8217; roll&#8230; Imperial Records Lew Chudd formed IMPERIAL RECORDS in 1946 in Los Angeles to better serve the Mexican and ethnic community. By 1949 his sights were set on another musical form that was being ignored by the major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harlem","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}