(L to R) James Brown, Strother Brown, Walter Douglas & Arthur Bell

 The Chords (1) (Washington, D.C.)


Personnel :

James Brown

Strother Brown

Walter Douglas

Arthur Bell


Discography :

1953 - In The Woods / Daddy Loves Mommy (Gem 211)


Biography :

By 1953 Mrs. Lillian Claiborne was an eight-year veteran of the music publishing and recording field. She had already enjoyed a good run of 78 rpm single releases on DC records from 1947-1950. She had placed her most promising artists on other labels (The Cap-Tans to Gotham, Dot, and Coral, TNT Tribble, The Heartbreakers, and the Young Gospel Singers to RCA Victor, and Frank Motley to Gotham and later to Specialty -all with mixed results.

   
                                                                                                                    The Sh-Boom Chords

By 1953 she was ready to get back into the local record business and managed The Chords from Washington, D.C. composed by James Brown, Strother Brown, Walter Douglas & Arthur Bell who recorded on NY's Gem Records the songs "In The Woods" b/w "Daddy Loves Mommy"  . As these guys had the "Chords" name before the ones who did "Sh-Boom", the resulting legal actions (which dragged on for months) forced a name change - of the Sh-Boom guys - to the "Chordcats".
Thanks to Marv Goldberg



Songs :

  
In The Woods                                Daddy Loves Mommy

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