Brunswick Records is an American record label. Currently the label is distributed by Koch Entertainment. History
In the spring of 1956, Nat Tarnopol left his job at the Tire Union in Detroit at the age of 25, to try his luck in the music business. Determined to manage and publish only R & B music, Tarnopol started working with an older music manager and was established by the name of Al Green. Green managed to record artists such as LaVern Baker and Johnny Ray at Atlantic. In addition to being a manager, Green partnered with Flame Show Bar, which was the main meeting place for all R & B artists.
All this time, a 22-year-old Jackie Wilson had just broken his contract with Billy Ward & amp; The Dominos, hoping to start a solo career. Green and Tarnopol agreed to manage Wilson and began recording Wilson demos, while in Detroit, with music written by two unknown composers with the names of Billy Davis and Berry Gordy Jr. Wilson demos, they were buying labels like Atlantic Records, where Green had a current relationship. While waiting for Atlantic to make up his mind about Wilson, Decca Records boss A & R, Bob Theile, made an offer for Wilson to sign for Decca. By the time the contracts were ready, Green had suffered a heart attack and died, leaving all the management work for Tarnopol. However Tarnopol had no formal education, but he had grown up in the streets of Detroit, which gave him a deep knowledge of the companies and how to defend his land. Everything else had to be learned or invented.
Wilson's first single was "Reet Petite", which was recorded at the Temple studio in New York, he entered the Billboard charts in November 1957. However, instead of appearing with the prestigious Decca label, Decca executives decided to release Wilson, and publish the disc under his lesser-known Brunswick label. Over the next four years, Tarnopol had eleven singles who entered the top 10 with Wilson, and had helped put the new Brunswick brand on the map as an active and successful record label, while Jackie Wilson, one of the first artists blacks into the popular music. Successes like "Lonely Teardrops", "I'll be Satisfied", "To be loved", "You Better know it", "Doggin 'around" and "Night" Wilson became one of the biggest stars of their time and a regular at American Bandstand, The Ed Sullivan Show, and even at New York Copacabana.
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