Louise Boddie

1950-1990s recording studio and label owner from Cleveland, Ohio. From 1958 to 1993, Thomas Boddie and Louise Boddie’s industrious, black-owned Boddie Recording Co. issued nearly 300 albums and 45s, recorded 10,000 hours of tape, and remained in operation longer than any other studio, pressing plant, or label group in the history of Cleveland, Ohio. Long forgotten even by the standards of the chronically overlooked northeastern Ohio music scene, Boddie was a fusion of its owner’s engineering genius and his limited economic means.