But the series scarcely mentions the bitter controversy over how much the Chess brothers and the music publishing company they partly owned exploited these artists.

Producing the session were the Chess brothers - Leonard and Phil - and Bo Diddley.

On March 2, 1955, the Chess brothers recorded their first rock and roll artist, Bo Diddley.

In 1951, the Chess brothers began an association with Sam Phillips' Memphis Recording Service.

It was also owned for a time by the Chess brothers, who owned and operated Chess Records.

The Chess brothers moved the company away from black pop and jazz and other genres into down home blues music with artists such as Muddy Waters.

In 1950, the Chess brothers renamed the company Chess Records.

These two songs were sold to the Chess brothers, Leonard and Phil, who released them as a single on August 15, 1951.

Jerry Wexler, an Atlantic Records executive and a friendly rival of the Chess brothers, saw their approach as updated paternalism.

Many independent record executives, like the Erteguns, were from immigrant backgrounds, including the Bihari brothers and the Chess brothers.