Ripete Records Inc

Description

Ripete Records welcomes you to the world of Carolina Beach and Shag Music with our 1999 edition catalogue. Since 1979 Ripete has made its highest priority the restoration and preservation of the musical heritage of the region.The Carolina Beach Music legacy began in the late 40's when certain danceable releases from seminal R&B labels like Atlantic, King, Federal and Savoy began catching on as favorites at pavilion juke boxes in the Myrtle Beach, S.C. vacationing area. Jump R&B really came into its own in the 50's with great additional releases from labels like VeeJay, Chess, Alladin, Duke/Peacock, Wand/ Scepter and Fire/Fury. By the 60's, people in the Southeast were referring to the songs heard mostly and sometimes only on Grand Strand jukeboxes as "Beach Music". By now Motown and Stax/Volt were pouring out hits like an assembly line and many of them also became instant beach classics. Furthermore, local white garage bands from the region began emulating their black heroes with "soul" recordings of their own. Out came yet another form of so called "Beach Music". The equation was now complete.These labels and local artists provided the back bone of what Carolina Beach Music has become today. It has been Ripete's ultimate goal to reissue as many of these lost treasures from the past as possible, all the while fostering and nurturing emergent artists and legendary performers who seek to recreate in new recordings the sound and magic of by-gone eras.

Fact sheet

Company contacts

Products & services

Similar companies nearby