Daptone Records Celebrates Their 100th Single Featuring Sharon Jones and Charles Bradley

For their 100th single, Daptone Records are celebrating with a very special release featuring two of the label's most beloved artists, Sharon Jones and Charles Bradley, who passed away from cancer in 2016 and 2017, respectively. 

Side A is credited to The Family Daptone and features posthumous vocals from both Jones and Bradley, as well as labelmates Saun & Starr, The Frightnrs, James Hunter, Naomi Shelton, Duke Amayo, and Lee Fields, plus members of The Dap-Kings and Menahan Street Band. The track "Hey Brother (Do Unto Others)" originally appeared on The Frightnrs' 2016 album Nothing More to Say, and after frontman Dan Klein passed away to ALS, the label “felt it would be a fitting tribute to re-imagine the tune as a soulful collaboration between the dynamic vocalists on the label.” 

Side B is “Soul Fugue” by The 100 Knights Orchestra, an ensemble featuring "every horn player the label has ever worked with (really!) including current and past members of The Dap-Kings, Antibalas, The Budos Band, Menahan Street Band, The Extraordinaires, The Soul Providers, and The Daktaris."  

"Everybody seemed to really love the idea of being together on a record like that," said label co-founder Gabriel Roth (aka Bosco Mann) via a press release. "Every one of those singers that I asked, after I explained what we were trying to do, they really jumped through hoops to try to make it happen."

Listen below. The 100th 45 single will be out June 28th.