Attention beach music retailers and purchasers:  This article will explain and hopefully resolve the confusion caused by The Chairman of the Board’s CDs Timeless and All in the Family.

 

Inspired by my love for classic soul rhythm and blues music, I decided to write and produce an album of songs that exhibited different genres of R&B.  I named the project Timeless. Timeless was distributed and promoted in the beach music market where it was very successful, yielding three hit singles - - Bless Your Heart, It Ain’t What you Do (It’s the Way That You Do It) and Jerry’s in Love.

 

Later, we decided to release Timeless in the Southern Soul market.  The CD was renamed Timeless II (R&B),and was released on the Xcel Music Group label, a subsidiary of Surfside Records.  Our first single released in the new market was a new track called Three Women. The single was very successful but CD sales were slow because of the lack of promotion, marketing and distribution. 

 

To remedy the problem, we secured the services of A.R.E., a promotion, marketing and distribution company headed by Al Bell, former president of the legendary Stax and Motown recording companies.  A.R.E. now influences all of our creative and administrative decisions including changing the title of the CD from Timeless to All in the Family.

 

Thanks to A.R.E All in the Family is being exposed to markets across the United States. This exposure has revitalized The Chairman of the Board’s national status and has afforded me the opportunity to do radio interviews across the country.  Surprisingly, the question I receive most is ….”what is beach music?”  My answer - - Carolina Beach music, in its purest form, is R&B music.  Memorial Day weekend 2006, Soul Street, an XM satellite R&B radio show in Washington, DC featured Carolina Beach music.

 

 

Thanks for your continued support.

  

General Johnson