United Record Distributors

CTL-E-0562 · Business · other · 1960–1970

Verified evidence grade of this record

United Record Distributors was the Black-owned distribution warehouse run by Ernie and George Leaner alongside their One-derful! label and studios; in 1968 its upstairs housed the One-derful!

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-infra-041; source research type(s): business. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

Sources

'Chicago – Soul Music Odyssey USA 1968' (pressbooks.library.yorku.ca)

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Musicians performing in a South Side tavern, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Entertainers in white jackets at a tavern piano, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

A singer with the band at a South Side tavern, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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