Talk:Spivey Records

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The only reference in this article is to the company's web site, which isn't sufficient. See WP:CORP. References which show the notability of the company are required, and listing the company's product catalog is inappropriate. Victoria Spivey seems to be notable, but the notability of the company is questionable. A Google search for "Spivey Records" turns up mostly promotional material, blog entries, and references in articles about Victora Spivey. --John Nagle (talk) 18:45, 16 January 2008 (UTC)


 * John Nagle, I fail to understand your animosity against Spivey Records. The company can be compared to Delmark Records and Yazoo Records, small but significant producers of blues recordings. If you look at those 2 Wikipedia entries, they also have links to company websites, and they also have lists of artists. Would you wish to invoke WP:CORP against these Wikipedia entries also, and slap “advertisement” templates on them also? The history of the blues is a history of small recording labels. It is not fair to say a Google search on Spivey Records turns up mostly promotional material.  A Google search on Spivey Records also links to discographies of blues artists on this label.  Many of the sites listed by a Google search also reproduce 2 false pieces of information: that Spivey Records was the scene of Bob Dylan’s first professional recording session, and that Spivey record’s first album release featured Bob Dylan. (For example, even the Emory University website for the Victoria Spivey Papers says: "After taking a semi-retirement in the 1950s, Spivey returned to performing in the United States and internationally in Europe and in 1962 began her own record company, Spivey Records. She used this company as a vehicle to resurrect older blues artists as well as introduce new artists,including Luther Johnson, Lucille Span, Olive Brown, and the first recording of folk artist Bob Dylan.)   It is worth correcting those 2 oft-repeated errors. I have added more references to the article.  As a blues enthusiast, and as someone who used to collect Spivey Records, I can vouch the label was a small but significant producer of blues recordings in  the 1960s and 1970s. I never purchased any of Spivey’s own recordings, but I liked the label because she recorded the musicians associated with the Muddy Waters Band in unusual permutations. You invoke WP:CORP but that entry does begin “[This] is not set in stone and should be treated with common sense and the occasional exception." Please see  Mick gold (talk) 08:03, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I have little to add to what Mick gold wrote above, except 1. I hate those notability discussions with people who obviously don't know much about the subject they're talking/writing about (look at John Nagle's contribution page: Never ever contributed anything else concerning blues artists, labels, etc.), and 2. to quote from WP:MUSIC:
 * "A musician or ensemble (...) is notable if it meets any one of the following criteria:
 * 5. Has released two or more albums on a major label or one of the more important indie labels (i.e. an independent label with a history of more than a few years and a roster of performers, many of which are notable).
 * Seems to me like a perfect definition of notability of record labels: "... a history of more than a few years and a roster of performers, many of which are notable": Spivey Records was founded in 1961 and operated until 1985, i.e. almost 25 years of permanent output of record albums of many artists beyond suspicion of not being 'notable' (i.e. Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Big Joe Williams, Lonnie Johnson, Memphis Slim, and Louis Armstrong). Nuff said ? StefanWirz (talk) 16:44, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Seems to me like a perfect definition of notability of record labels: "... a history of more than a few years and a roster of performers, many of which are notable": Spivey Records was founded in 1961 and operated until 1985, i.e. almost 25 years of permanent output of record albums of many artists beyond suspicion of not being 'notable' (i.e. Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Big Joe Williams, Lonnie Johnson, Memphis Slim, and Louis Armstrong). Nuff said ? StefanWirz (talk) 16:44, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Seems to me like a perfect definition of notability of record labels: "... a history of more than a few years and a roster of performers, many of which are notable": Spivey Records was founded in 1961 and operated until 1985, i.e. almost 25 years of permanent output of record albums of many artists beyond suspicion of not being 'notable' (i.e. Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Big Joe Williams, Lonnie Johnson, Memphis Slim, and Louis Armstrong). Nuff said ? StefanWirz (talk) 16:44, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

current management of Spivey Records
This article claims, as the Spivey website claims, that founder Len Kunstadt's neice, Lisa Weiner, resurrected the company several years ago after it had been dormant for more than a decade following Kunstadt's death. Can somebody offer proof that Weiner actually exists? I've made several attempts to contact her via the email address listed on the Spivey website, to no avail. I knew Len fairly well as a fellow member of the New York blues scene revolving around the Dan Lynch Blues Bar on 14th Street; he wrote the first article on my blues duo, Satan and Adam (it appeared in the German magazine "Blues Life" in the late 1980s), and he recorded several wonderful albums featuring the harmonica work of my mentor, Nat Riddles. I attempted to contact Weiner to suggest that she think about reissuing Riddles's albums in digital form, since virtually nothing of his is currently available. I made it clear that her uncle had been my friend. She didn't answer. I'd appreciate any confirmation that Weiner actually exists and is running the record label. KudzuRunner (talk) 18:59, 19 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Postings on Spivey Records Community chat room indicate you are not the only person wondering whether any CDs have been reissued. I've added this material to article. Mick gold (talk) 08:48, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

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