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Barney Ales
Barney Ales is credited on 186 releases across 61 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1961–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
186
Pressings credited
61
Albums
7
Decades active
38
In collections
Biography
Baldassare "Barney" Ales (May 13, 1934 – April 17, 2020) was an American music industry executive best known as a leading figure and sometime company president at Motown Records. He is credited with successfully promoting the black-owned company in the wider white-dominated music industry in the US.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
186 releases · 61 albums · active 1961–2024
- Performance · 210
- Production · 19
- Other credits · 14
Studios: United Sound Systems · The Disc Ltd. · HDH Sound Studios · Dynamic Sounds Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Anthology
1974
Collected
2014
Meet The Supremes
1962
Marvin Gaye And His Girls
1969
His Classic Duets
2020
George Clinton Family Series: Testing Positive 4 The Funk
1993
What's The Matter With You Baby / Once Upon A Time
1964
The Best Of Marvin Gaye
1995
Tamla Meets Tijuana
1971
3CD»Playlist+Plus
2008
The Marvin Gaye Collection
1990
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Marvin Gaye
- Twistin' Kings
- The Vows
- Ronnie McNeir
- The Tequila Brass
- The Supremes
- Supremes
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