Dakar Records was a record label started by Carl Davis

Carl Davis (record producer)

Carl H. Davis is an American record producer and music executive, who was particularly active in Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s when he was responsible for hit R&B records by Gene Chandler, Major Lance, Jackie Wilson, The Chi-Lites, Barbara Acklin, Tyrone Davis and others.-Life and career:He was...

 in 1967, while employed at Brunswick Records

Brunswick Records

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. The label was initially distributed by Atlantic Records

Atlantic Records

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 subsidiary Cotillion Records

Cotillion Records

Cotillion Records was a subsidiary of Atlantic Records and was active from 1968 through 1985. The label was originally formed as an outlet for blues and deep Southern soul; its first single, Otis Clay's version of "She's About A Mover", reached the R&B charts. Cotillion's catalog quickly expanded...

, and was based in Chicago. All releases after late 1971 were distributed by Brunswick Records

Brunswick Records

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Notable artists on the imprint included Tyrone Davis

Tyrone Davis

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, Hamilton Bohannon

Hamilton Bohannon

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, and Sidney Joe Qualls. Dakar also released LPs by Boobie Knight and the Universal Lady, Even Stevens, Johnny Sayles, Prophets of Soul and Mighty Doug Haynes.

When Brunswick/Dakar went dormant, Davis founded Chi Sound Records

Chi Sound Records

Chi-Sound Records is an independent record label set up in 1976 by established Chicago record producer Carl Davis. He had been involved in the music industry since the early 1960s working with locally-based labels including Vee-Jay and Okeh, a subsidiary of the major Columbia Records. He produced...

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Owned by Brunswick today, the Dakar catalog is today distributed by Koch Entertainment

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