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Twinight/Twilight

Author: ROBERT PRUTER

Twinight/Twilight Chicago soul label of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Twinight was founded in 1967 by a former All State Distributors’ promotion man, Howard Bedno, and artist-management executive Peter Wright. The company began as Twilight but changed its name after the first four releases. Syl Johnson was virtually the only hitmaker, whose “ Come On and Sock It to Me ” (1967) began a whole string of hits for Twinight. The company specialized in hard soul, and besides Johnson its artists…

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