Phil Chess
Philip Chess (born March 27, 1921) is an Polish American record producer and company executive, the co-founder with his brother of Chess Records.
Biography
He was born Fiszel Czyż in a Jewish community in Częstochowa, Poland. He and his brother Lejzor, sister Malka and mother followed their father to Chicago in 1928. The family name was changed to Chess, with Lejzor becoming Leonard and Fiszel becoming Philip.
In 1946, after leaving the Army, Phil joined Leonard in running a popular club, the Macomba Lounge. Two years later, Leonard became a partner in Aristocrat Records, a local company that recorded a wide range of music, and Phil joined in 1950. The company then changed its name to Chess Records, and began concentrating on R&B music, signing and recording artists such as Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, "Sonny Boy Williamson" (Rice Miller), Robert Lockwood Jr., Etta James, Willie Dixon, Howlin Wolf and Chuck Berry. Phil Chess was actively involved in producing many of their seminal blues and rock and roll recordings. The company expanded successfully through the 1950s and early 1960s, until it was sold to GRT in 1968.
Podcasts:
Phil Chess
ALBUMS
- The Chess Story released: 1999
The Chess Story
Released 1999- Chicago Boogie
- Hey Pretty Mama
- Ice Man's Blues
- Boogie Woogie Blues
- Bilbo Is Dead
- Johnson Machine Gun
- Gypsy Woman
- I Feel Like Crying
- She Ain't Nowhere
- I Feel Like Going Home
- I Can't Be Satisfied
- Tonky Boogie
- Florida Hurricane
- You're Gonna Miss Me
- Locked Out Boogie
- Streamline Woman
- A Woman on Every Street
- Crying the Blues
- Baby I'm Sick of You
- Black Angel Blues (Sweet Black Angel)
- You're Gonna Need My Help
- Big Town Playboy
- Screamin' and Cryin'
- All I Need Is You
- Six Three 0
- Rollin' and Tumblin', Part 1
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by Disciple
Fill My Shoes
by: DiscipleHey won't you come to try and fill my shoes
They don't walk so well
Hey can you take the death inside my heart
It don't beat so well
And I wait for you
Come and save me from the place
Help me change
I life my eyes to the heavens
Cuz I've been looking down for so long
Hey I see you and I wonder do you see me
Feel's so far away
Hey can you take me under shelter
and love me Is that too much to ask
And I've searched for you and I've tried to put you first
but I failed Lord help me change