Fire records
Fire Records was an American record company that produced records with light music between 1959 and 1962. The label of the same name, founded in London in 1986, has no factual connection with the US company.
development
The New York music producer Bobby Robinson, who had already started several record companies, founded another label with Fire Records in 1959. The first single was released in August 1959 under catalog number 1000 with the rockabilly duo Tarheel Slim and Little Ann. The catalog numbers changed several times, in the course of 1961 a 500 series was changed over to a 1500 system at the end of 1962. Between 1959 and 1962, single records were produced with 28 performers , of which only four performed in the US charts. 19 of them only released one single on Fire. Almost all singles were produced by Bobby Robinson himself. The following singers have released records on Fire several times:
- Buster Brown (7 singles, 2 LPs )
- Bobby Marchan (7 singles)
- Tarheel Slim and Little Ann (7 singles)
- Elmore James (6 singles)
- Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford (3 singles, one LP)
- Arthur Crudup (2 singles, one LP)
- Mary Ann Fisher (2 singles)
- Dr. Horse (2 singles)
- The Gay Poppers (2 singles)
Singles in the US charts
Buster Brown succeeded in 1959 as the first Fire artist to hit the US charts. With the self-written title Fannie Mae , he came in the Hot 100 of the US music magazine Billbord at number 38, in the rhythm and blues charts he reached the top. In 1960 and 1962 Brown came into the charts with two other titles. Another number one hit on the R&B charts came in 1960 for Bobby Marchan with There's Something on Your Mind . A total of seven Fire titles made it into the US hit lists:
| published | title | Performers | Hot 100 | R&B |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/1959 | Fannie Mae | Buster Brown | 38. | 1. |
| 1960 | The Sky Is Crying | Elmore James | 15th | |
| 6/1960 | There's Something on Your Mind | Bobby Marchan | 31. | 1. |
| 9/1960 | Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby | Buster Brown | 81. | |
| 2/1962 | Sugar babe | Buster Brown | 99 | 19th |
| 6/1962 | I need your loving | Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford | 20th | 4th |
| 8/1962 | Don't you worry | Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford | 66. | 7th |
US LPs
| year | title | Performers | Cat.-No. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Here Are The Hits! | Various artists | 100 |
| 1959 | Memory lane | Various artists | 100 |
| 1960 | Buster Brown New King Of The Blues | Buster Brown | 101 |
| 1960 | Buster Brown New King Of The Blues (II) | Buster Brown | 102 |
| 1960 | Mean Ol 'Frisco | Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup | 103 |
| 1962 | Mojo hand | Lightnin 'Hopkins | 104 |
| 1962 | I need your lovin ' | Don Gardner / Dee Dee Ford | 105 |