First Wave Soul Record Labels

• Stax Records - Art Bell
• Duke Records - Don Rob
• Roulette Records - Marv Levy
• Muscle Shoals - The Swampers
• Peacock/Duke Records - Don Robey
• King Records - Syd Nathan
• Modern Records - The Bihari Brothers
• Motown Records - Barry Gordy
• Chess Records - Leonard and Phil Chess
• Sun Records - Sam Phillips

First Wave Soul Artists

• King Curtis
• Bobby "Blue" Bland
• Ike & Tina Turner
• James Brown
• Barrett Strong
• Rufus Thomas

Charm School Soul

• The Supremes
• The Temptations
• The Jackson Five

The Second Wave

• Betty Wright - The Cleanup Woman.
• Dr. John - New Orleans
• The Meters - New Orleans Pt. 2

The King of Soul

James Brown with the Famous Flames earned the title of the "hardest working man in show business" by playing hundreds of shows - sometimes two or three a day.

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