Cadet Concept was a label put together and run by Marshall Chess, son of Chess records co-
founder Leonard Chess. He put together the ensemble Rotary Connection in 1967 to start off the label,
and issued many albums by the group during the label's run. Arguably, the label itself was a vehicle for
the Rotary Connection. Included in the group was Minnie Riperton, a singer with a soaring operatic
range who had done some vocal work with Chess in the group called the Gems. Later, Riperton went on
to a solo career with Epic Records and had the #1 hit "Lovin' You" in the 1970s.
In addition to the Rotary Connection, the label featured early chart records by UK rockers Status Quo,
saxophonist John Klemmer, reviewer/producer Joel Vance (?!), and a few other groups such as Aesop's
Fables and Salloom and Sinclair. Chess also included several albums by blues legends Muddy Waters
and Howlin' Wolf, mainstays of his father's label.
The Cadet Concept label was gray with black print. Above the center hole was "CADET" in pink and
"CONCEPT" in orange. To the left of the center hole was the stylized horse head logo.
We would appreciate any additions or corrections to this discography. Just send them to us via e-mail. Both
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Records. Cadet Concept is currently owned by MCA Records/Universal Music Group. Should you be
interested in contacting MCA or acquiring albums listed in this discography (which are all out of print), we
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Callahan.
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LPS-312 - Rotary Connection - Rotary Connection [1968] (3-68, #37) Amen/Rapid
Transit/Turn Me On/Pink Noise/Lady Jane/Like A Rollin' Stone//Soul Man/Sursum Mentes/Didn't Want
To Have To Do It/Black Noise/Memory Band/Ruby Tuesday/Rotary Connection
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LP-313 - [Unissued]
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LPS-314 - Electric Mud - Muddy Waters [1968] I Just Want To Make Love To
You/Hoochie Coochie Man/Let's Spend the Night Together/She's All Right//I'm A Man/Herbert Harper's
Free Press/Tom Cat/Same Thing
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LPS-315 - Messages from the Status Quo - Status Quo [1968] Black Veils Of
Melancholy (E)/When My Mind Is Not Live (E)/Ice In The Sun (E)/Elizabeth Dreams (E)/Gentleman Joe's
Sidewalk Cafe (E)//Paradise Flat (E)/Technicolor Dreams (E)/Spicks And Specks (E)/Sunny Cellophane
Sky (E)/Pictures Of Matchstick Men (E)
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LPS-316 - Salloom, Sinclair and the Mother Bear - Salloom & Sinclair [1968] "Salloom &
Sinclair" are Roger Salloom & Robin Sinclair; "Mother Bear" is their backing group. Be Born
Again/Conversations With Gentility/Steals/Griffin/She Kicked Me Out Of The House After This
One/Florida Blues/Sitting On A Finger/Marie La Peau
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LPS-317 - Aladdin - Rotary Connection [1968] (10-68, #176) Life Could/Teach Me How
To Fly/V.I.P/I Took A Ride (Caravan)/Let Them Talk//Aladdin/I Feel Sorry/Magical World/I Must Be
There/Paper Castle
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LPS-318 - Peace - Rotary Connection [1968] Opening Round/Silent
Night/Christmas Love/Last Call For Peace/Shopping Bag Menagerie/Silent Night//Christmas Child/Piece
At Least/Santa's Little Helpers/Sidewalk Santa/If Peace Was All We Had/Silent Night Chant/Silence
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LPS-319 - The Howlin' Wolf Album - Howlin' Wolf [1969] Spoonful/Tail
Dragger/Smokestack Lightning/Moanin' At Midnight/Built For Comfort//The Red Rooster/Evil/Down In
The Bottom/Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy/Back Door Man
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LPS-320 - After the Rain - Muddy Waters [1969] I Am The Blues/Ramblin' Mind/Rollin'
And Tumblin'/Bottom Of The Sea//Honey Bee/Blues And Trouble/Hurtin' Soul/Screamin' And Cryin'
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LPS-321 - Blowin' Gold - John Klemmer [1969] (9-69, #176) Children Of The Earth:
Flames!/Excursion #2/My Heart Sings/Hey Jude/Free Soul/My Love Has Butterfly Wings/Third Stone
From The Sun
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LPS-322 - Songs - Rotary Connection [1969] Respect/Weight/Sunshine of Your
Love/I've Got My Mojo/Burning of the Midnight Lamp/Tales of Brave Ulymes/This Town/We're Going
Wrong/Salt of the Earth
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LPS-323 - In Due Time... - Aesop's Fables [1969] Lift Up Your Hearts/What Is Soul/In
Due Time/In The Morning/Everyone's Talking/Spoons Full Of Sand//The Sound Of Crying/What Is
Love/Look Out/I'm Gonna Make You Love Me/And When It's Over
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LPS-324 - Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Wolf [unissued]
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LPS-325 - What I Did on My Vacation - Joel Vance [1969] Fannie Mae/Bamboo Lou/O
Miss Chickie/When A Whore Falls/Claudie/(others)
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LPS-326 - All the Children Cried - John Klemmer [1969] All The Children Cried/For God:
Whoever And Whatever That Is/Journey's End/Moon Child//Here Comes The Child/I Whisper A Prayer
For Peace/Mind Explosion/Pulsations Of A Green-Eyed Lady/Soliloquy For Tenor And Voice
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LPS-327 - Salloom and Sinclair - Salloom & Sinclair [1969] Lesson At The
Delicatessen/Motorcycle/One More Try/I'm Comin' Home Again/Violence, Blam Blam, I'm
Sorry//Animal/Faith Has Been Given/Let's Be Right/Exhaustion/Sleep
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LPS-328 - Dinner Music - Rotary Connection [1970] Pointillism/We Will Be Free/Lining
Alone/Lektricks # 1/Country Things/Quartet/May Our Amens Be True/Stormy Monday Blues//Love Me
Now/Lonely Summer/Amuse/Lektricks # 2/Merry Pransker/Pump Effect/Want You To Know
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LPS-329 - Archie Whitewater - Archie Whitewater [1970] Don't Be Short/Northstar/Mist
Of The Early Morning/Life Is A River/Friends And Neighbors/Country To The City//Home Again/Cross
Country/Lament For The Walking Dead/Seacoast/Hulk
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LPS-330 - Eruptions - John Klemmer [1970] Gardens Of Uranus/Summer
Song/Regions of Fire/Lady Toad
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LPS-331 - Aesop's Fables - Aesop's Fables [1970]
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Special Series:
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CCX-1 - Earle Doud Presents: Spiro T. Agnew Is A Riot! - Various Artists [1971] Comedy
album. Diplomacy/Doomsday Machine/Good Night/I'm Sorry/Jack Frost (Parts 1-6)/Oath Of Office/Polish
Ambassador/PTA/Silent Majority/The Fight/The Joke/The Monument
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Cadet Concept Album Discography
