Moneytown

1960s soul label from Chicago, Illinois, owned by George Redman. George Redman started the independent label, Moneytown Records (not associated with a label of the same name out of Washington, DC some years later) in Chicago around 1963; and it appears there were several even more limited offshoots, including Moneytree and Blue Light Records. After the first Moneytown single, which featured The Desires, a vocal group, failed to get noticed, nothing else appeared on the label until 1965. That year Redman issued five more 45s by just two groups, the Mandells and the Intensions, but had no success with any of them, though some were re-issued by outside lables. He closed down the operation the next year and moved to New Orleans around 1970, where he would later come into contact with Blackmale AKA Blackmail (14). Obviously impressed by the band and its prospects, he revived Moneytown and issued their single; but Redman’s venture probably lacked the funds to adequately promote and distribute the record beyond a handful of promo copies and a limited pressing of the single. So, there would not have been much of a chance for it to be heard, and there was no follow-up. As far as it is currently known, Redman had one other New Orleans adventure in label ownership somewhat later, Super City, releasing a one-off single, “Wonders of the World”/”It’s You Baby (It’s You)” by a group named Sex (3). Leo Nocentelli wrote both songs and co-produced the sessions with Redman; but the Sex project amounted to no more than an unproductive quickie.