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Home » Cherries Records

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Posted inMusic

Crate diggers have caught up with the funky soul of Doug Shorts’s Master Plan Inc.

by Steve Krakow May 22, 2018August 18, 2021

Decades after his greatest group disbanded, Chicago soul singer Doug Shorts is finally being recognized for his brilliance.

Posted inBlogs

R&B act Benjamin releases his first full-length record next week

by Luca Cimarusti November 6, 2015August 18, 2021

The R&B alter ego of Ben Pirani readies his new record with a hilarious music video.

Posted inBlogs

Chicago soul singer Doug Shorts shows off his karate moves in his first music video

by Leor Galil August 29, 2013August 19, 2021

The charming clip for the silky “Don’t Sleep on My Love” is the latest project the 62-year-old singer is rolling out this year.

Doug Shorts outside the Humboldt Park apartment of Cherries Records founders Andrew Brearley and Sheila Hernando
Posted inMusic

The long game of soul singer Doug Shorts

by Leor Galil June 26, 2013August 19, 2021

Doug Shorts has been a doorman, a karate instructor, even an extra in an Adam Sandler movie—and now he might finally make it as a soul singer.

Dwight Twilley
Posted inMusic

Gossip Wolf: HoZac saves Dwight Twilley’s shark from the dark

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil May 1, 2013August 19, 2021

Vintage Dwight Twilley on HoZac Archival, a photo op for Cherries Records, and a lineup change for Terminate

Posted inBlogs

Benjamin, the R&B alter ego of Chicago Stone Lightning Band’s front man, releases an outrageous new single

by Luca Cimarusti January 31, 2013August 18, 2021

Cherries Records re-presses “Love Is Gonna Let You Down” b/w “Not a Moment Too Soon.”

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