Specialty/Fidelity/Juke Box

Specialty/Fidelity/Juke Box Founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1945 from the ashes of the failed Atlas label, Art Rupe (Arthur Goldberg, September 5, 1917, Greensburg, Pennsylvania) formed Juke Box Records and enjoyed early success with records by “The Blues Woman” (Marion Abernathy) and Roy Milton & His Solid Senders. In 1946 he abandoned Juke Box Records and incorporated his new Specialty label, reissuing the old masters. Milton proved to be one of the label’s major assets, scoring…