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Starting my own square dance record company has been an
idea in the back of my mind for several years. After recording Everybody wants to go to Heaven with Willis Simmons in late 2008, Willis made the comment to me that he thought that I should start my own record company. Well thats all I needed to get the brain going in high gear on this idea. After making several contacts with a studio, the record pressing company and a distributor, and good friend and producer of my last two records, Reggie Knipher, we began to put together a record company. With Anitas support and encouragement and with her help, we have established Imperial Records for squares and Regal Rounds for round dances. We began working on our first songs the first of 2009. Experiencing a few bumps along the way, finding out that all songs are not suitable for square dance and establishing the correct key range for the music, we finally got the music in our hands. Of course we have to determine the words, figures, etc, to go to the music, put it on
paper, practice the vocal with the music and then go to
the studio to put the vocal track with the music. Once all this is accomplished
we will send a master CD to the record pressing company who will press the music
on vinyl, make CDs, and make it available as an mp3 file on line.
They will also label the records, CDs, copy and stuff the cue sheets
and do everything to make the music ready for distribution. (Who said this was easy?)
We hope to have our first releases out in June 2009
if we dont hit any other snags. We hope to release two records at this time with one
or two a month after the first release. More music is already in the works.
We will be inviting other callers and cuers, who have a desire to make
a square or round dance record, to join us in the future.
We hope to assemble a staff of, mostly, regional callers and cuers.
We hope that you will enjoy our music and find it suitable
to be in your record case.
Anyone interested in recording a square dance or round dance record and being on the staff,
should contact Larry Belcher for information.
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