Yambo Records

Yambo Records
Founded1960s
FounderWillie Dixon
StatusDefunct
Distributor(s)Summit
GenreBlues
Country of originU.S.
LocationChicago, Illinois

Yambo Records was a blues record label based in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded by arranger and composer Willie Dixon in the late 1960s after he left Chess Records. Yambo Records also had two subsidiary labels, Spoonful and Supreme. The label was based at 7711 South Racine Avenue in Chicago, along with Dixon's related companies Blues Factory and Soul Productions. It was distributed by Summit Distributors in Skokie, Illinois.[1] Dixon recorded and released his 1971 album Peace? on Yambo. He also released several singles, including the hit "1, 2, 3, 4" by five-year-old Lucky Peterson.[2] The label closed in the mid-1970s.

  1. ^ "Yambo Records (advertisement)". Billboard Magazine. 85 (25). Nielsen Business Media: 22. June 23, 1973. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved January 1, 2010.
  2. ^ Dixon, Willie; Snowden, Don (1989). I Am the Blues. Da Capo Press. p. 244. ISBN 0-306-80415-8.