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Chris Carter is a Los Angeles-based disc jockey, producer and music consultant. A founding member of beloved powerpoppers Dramarama, Chris moved into management, handling among others the Wondermints, the members of whom now constitute Brian Wilson’s band. As a producer, he supervised the cult rockumentary about influential LA deejay Rodney Bingenheimer, Mayor of The Sunset Strip, which was nominated for Best Documentary in the 2003 Independent Spirit Awards. Currently Chris hosts two weekly radio shows: the long-lived and popular Breakfast With The Beatles, and Chris Carter’s British Invasion on Sirius/XM radio as part of Little Steven’s Underground Garage.

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Here come the girls! From Ace’s earliest days, there’s always been a place in our hearts for music’s feminine side. Every few months since then has seen a new release to keep girl pop aficionados satisfied – whether single artist sets and twofers or multi-act series and themed compilations. The Where The Girls Are collections zone in on the 1960s girl group sound, paying special attention to the rare and obscure: think castanets, anguished teen sirens, Svengali-esque producers and mini-sonatas about dancing and boyfriends (sometimes deceased). Get the picture? The Early Girls series, on the other hand, is drawn entirely (well, almost) from Billboard magazine’s Hot 100 of the pre-Beatles era.

Vintage southern soul is more popular now than at any time since its mid-60s heyday. Timeless songs and genre-defining singing enjoy an appreciation that extends way beyond hardcore devotees, and the southern soul fan club just gets bigger and bigger. The music produced by Fame Records’ founder Rick Hall and the incredible musicians, performers and songwriters who plied their trade in his studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama have contributed greatly to this growing popularity.

Although others would emerge in its wake, it was FAME Studios that put the “Muscle Shoals Sound” on the map. Artists such as Wilson Pickett, James & Bobby Purify, Arthur Conley, Clarence Carter, Candi Staton and Aretha Franklin cut some of their most important hits there in the 60s. As well as performers, Fame also cultivated the writing talents of – among others – Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham, and published many of southern soul’s most revered songs.

Muscle Shoals eventually became a recording Mecca for artists from all genres of popular music, and FAME’s remit expanded to embrace Bobbie Gentry, Tom Jones, Mac Davis, Paul Anka, Liza Minnelli and – perhaps most famously – the Osmonds. These and others all made a different kind of memorable music under Rick Hall’s supervision, but it’s the incredible southern soul recordings which poured out of FAME in the 1960s upon which the studio’s reputation stands.

We’re very proud of the CDs in our Fame reissue programme. A listen to any one of the nine featured here will show why. 

In this Late Night Prom Jools Holland and His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra pay tribute to the Stax label and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stax/Volt Revue’s first tour of the UK, in a concert featuring William Bell, Eddie Floyd and Steve Cropper alongside a number of British artists.

22:15 Friday 1 Sep 2017 Royal Albert Hall

Seats £10 to £35 (plus booking fee)

www.bbc.co.uk/events/

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