The Carolina Beach Music legacy began in the late 40's when certain danceable releases from seminal R&B labels like Atlantic, King, Federal and Savoy began catching on as favorites at pavilion juke boxes in the Myrtle Beach, S.C. vacationing area. Jump R&B really came into its own in the 50's with great additional releases from labels like VeeJay, Chess, Alladin, Duke/Peacock, Wand/ Scepter and Fire/Fury. By the 60's, people in the Southeast were referring to the songs heard mostly and sometimes only on Grand Strand jukeboxes as "Beach Music". By now Motown and Stax/Volt were pouring out hits like an assembly line and many of them also became instant beach classics. Furthermore, local white garage bands from the region began emulating their black heroes with "soul" recordings of their own. Out came yet another form of so called "Beach Music". The equation was now complete.

These labels and local artists provided the back bone of what Carolina Beach Music has become today. It has been Ripete's ultimate goal to reissue as many of these lost treasures from the past as possible, all the while fostering and nurturing emergent artists and legendary performers who seek to recreate in new recordings the sound and magic of by-gone eras.

It has been with great pride that Ripete has had the opportunity and privilege to produce new recordings by such notable performers as The Clovers, The Impressions, Maurice Williams & Zodiacs, The Embers, Rosco Gordon and Bill Pinkney and The Original Drifters: Greg "Fingers" Taylor, Jimmy Hall, Jerry Butler,The Chi-Lites and Johnny Adams. Whether you're an old devotee of this music or a recent convert, you're sure to find something here to please the most discriminating palate. From gutsy blues to gritty rhythm and blues - from 60's sweet soul and garage band beach to highly polished shag dance numbers of the 80's and 90's and on into the new millenium with it's Northern Soul craze. It's all here. "Beach Music - Catch the Wave!"