Various Artists - Ric Tic Records - The Discography (2024) - Rare Soul (MP3 566MB)

Ric-Tic Records was set up in the 1960s in Detroit, Michigan by Joanne Bratton and Ed Wingate. Twinned with the Golden World label, Ric-Tic featured many soul music artists and was seen as an early competitor for fellow Detroit label Motown. Motown's owner, Berry Gordy was unhappy with the success of Ric-Tic and in 1968 paid $1 million for the signature of many of the label's artists, the building & Studios, publishing rights in fact all connected with that label. In 2003, it was established that Ric-Tic was named for the deceased son of co-founder Bratton and her then husband, boxer Johnny Bratton. The boy, named Derek and known to his family as Ricky, Ric, or Ric-Tic, died at the age of 11 in 1962. Many early recordings on the Ric-Tic label by artists such as Freddie Gorman, Edwin Starr, and J. J. Barnes were re-released in the 1970s by Motown to coincide with the popularity of the Northern Soul Scene in the UK. The group The Fantastic Four were also signed to Ric-Tic, and became the label's best selling act, outselling Edwin Starr in the United States. Much like Starr, they continued to record under Motown when Ric-Tic was absorbed by the record company. The Detroit Emeralds (having just moved to Detroit and added the word "Detroit" to their group name) recorded briefly for Ric-Tic, achieving their first R&B Chart success with "Show Time", in 1967. They then joined Westbound Records in 1970 & the rest is history. As previously stated, without the records these Detroit labels recorded their would have been no Northern Scene as the rest of the USA soul labels, both majors & small indies followed suit in the style of the upbeat records produced.

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