The Original Chess Masters

Series debuted in approximately September 1986, with 10 albums from the Chess catalogue that MCA Records had recently acquired from SugarHill Records. The series branding was also retroactively applied to repressings of some albums previously reissued via SugarHill, e.g. Billy Stewart's "The Greatest Sides", Sonny Boy Williamson's "One Way Out", Howlin Wolf's "Howlin' Wolf" and Etta James' "Rocks The House".