Our founder: Alexander Zanetis was a self-taught Pianist and Singer who at the age 18 years old sang the lead role in the Italian Opera “Rigoletto” at the Chicago Opera House in 1947. It brought “Rave Reviews”. Though he spoke only two languages, English and Greek, he could sing in four languages. The other two being Italian and Spanish. Alexander went on to become an accomplished Airplane Pilot.
As a Pilot, he flew many of the great Country Music Stars of the 1950’s and 1960’s to and from their concerts. These Artist’s include Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Faron Young, Waylon Jennings, Webb Pierce and many others. In 1962 Faron Young had a flight layover and stayed at Alexander’s home in Flora, Illinois and Alexander sang him an “Opera” song. Faron, being the “Famous Country Star” that he was, remarked, “Dang Boy! Don’t you have any Real Songs?” Alexander then performed for Faron a song that he wrote entitled “Backtrack”. Faron loved it and recorded it and in 1962 it became a “Top 10” Hit on the “Billboard Charts.”
That would be the beginning of a 50-year career of writing songs for a veritable “who’s who” in Pop and Country Music. Alexander went on to become an accomplished Record Producer at RCA and then an accomplished Independent Producer producing many Hit Songs. Ronnie James, the President of Royal Master Records, began working at Alexander’s Record Label, Recording Studio and Music Publishing Company in 1975 at the age of 15. Ronnie is a Singer, Songwriter, Composer, Guitarist, Sound Engineer, Music Publisher, Record Producer and an Advisor to many New Songwriters.
Alexander Zanetis left his business to Ronnie James in his will in 2003 as a token of Ronnie’s many years of dedicated employment to the company. Ronnie has Produced many successful songs and owns the Music Publishing Rights of dozens of songs recorded by major recording artists including several #1 hits. Today, he operates the recording studio, a song co-writing service and a Music Publishing Company. Our current Recording Studio was built in 2024. It is “State of the Art” and a better recording you cannot find anywhere else. Our studio includes an “Award Winning Sound Engineer” who has worked in our studio for more than 20 years. We use Professional Nashville Studio Musicians and Singers in all of our song recordings.