Sue Records ("The Sound Of Soul") was founded in 1957 by Henry "Juggy" Murray in New York City. Also within the group was Symbol Records and Sue also financed and distributed A.F.O. Records owned by Harold Battiste in New Orleans. The label's first success came with Bobby Hendricks and Don Covay and continued into the sixties with Ike & Tina Turner, The Duals' "Stick Shift" and "Mockingbird" by Inez & Charlie Fox.
1959-1962 were good years for Sue with hits by Ike and Tina Turner, Justine "Baby" Washington, The Soul Sisters, The Duals, Jimmy McGriff and Inez and Charlie Foxx.
The hits dried up by 1963 and Sue seemed to be out of step. They
never really produced records to compete with the hot new sounds of soul
on Atlantic, Stax or Motown.
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