Musicol / Hull

Musicol is Ohio's longest currently operating recording operation. Musicol was started by John Hull at his house, where he set up a recording space. In 1966 he moved to a new location where the studio has operating continuosly. In 1969 Musicol added a pressing plant which did 45s and LPs.

The Musicol numbering system started at 1000, although the record assigned to that, by Cush, was cut later than the records starting with 1001, which we can assume was the chonological first. Until 1968 or so, all the Hull/Musicol recordings had a number with the prefix HR. The performers could use the Musicol label or use their own label name. Records were assigned one number per disk, but sometime in 1969, after they had started to press their own, they changed to a number per side format, and seem to have dropped the HR prefix. In 1972 Musicol completely revised their numbering system to use a 6 digit number. For various reasons, those have not yet been cataloged. Records recorded at Musicol could still use the Musicol name for the label, or a custom name. Almost all the numbers seemed to have been pressed, but many of the missing titles are gospel or school records. The logs for all the number exist, but does not contain enough information to document each record. Based on review of the log, and the compilation of several collections, we're pretty confident that 80%+ of the 45s (that are rock/soul/country/pop) are included. If any 45s are missing, they are most likely to be country gospel.

H = Hull label, M = Musicol label, I = Ironbeat label, C = Col Soul label