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Boddie Recording company
Boddie Recording studio is the first African American recording studio in Cleveland, Ohio. ￼ This recording studio was run by Thomas Boddie and his wife Louise Boddie. Before Thomas started the Boddie Recording studio he would record church music, concerts, choirs etc... Thomas Boddie didn't make music himself, but he did help artists and musicians build their career. In the 1950's Thomas Boddie started his studio in the basement of his house at 9410 Pierpont Avenue. Thomas later moved into his new home on 12202 Union Avenue where he placed his studio in an old building behind his house. Thomas used rebuilt recording equipment and made some of his equipment himself. Thomas and Louise had a variety of clients with different genres of music. They had gospel, blues, rock, soul, and all different kinds of genres of music.

Boddie recording studio had a diverse group of artists that were interested in recording and sending their records to bigger labels like Motown Records. Artists ranging from country to gospel took interest in the Boddie Recording studio because of the low interest rates, it was inexpensive for new artists to record. Boddie records recorded most artists and musicians that passed through Cleveland. This studio recorded many different artists with different genres, and they started to get some attention. For instance, Hot Chocolate, Seven Revelators, and Los Nombres were some of the most popular artists Boddie records recorded. Boddie records was a very known studio by musicians and produced 700-800 records on seven different labels.

Thomas Boddie and his studio was very diverse, he didn't care who you were or how much experience you have. Boddie records was a very including recording studio there was different labels for different music like the Plaid label was for jazz, Soul kitchen was blues, and Luau was for Latin music. Boddie records recorded artists in the studio but also had a mobile option for artists. Thomas ran into the problem of having white customers that didn't want to go into a mainly African American neighborhood which is where his studio was, so he made a mobile recording studio. This studio was opened in 1959 and was very successful until it closed in 2006 due to Thomas Boddie passing away.