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Dave McQuitty

Producer of Rock and R&B/Soul

Artist, musician, frontman, producer, manager, businessman, and entrepreneur from Missouri. He grew up in tiny Coal, Missouri and his career started in music as a teenager in the early '60s as Dave McQuitty and The Viscounts (9). They performed rock & roll, rhythm & blues, rockabilly, and surf rock numbers and released a 7-Inch on Teen-Tunes and one on small Clinton, Missouri record label Vee Cee. In the mid-60s, he pursued a degree in commercial art at Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, Missouri and formed The Broadway Clique with members of The Viscounts and expanding with a full horn section. The group played throughout Missouri and the midwest. In the 1970s, he started Graphic Recording label and studio in Warrensburg, Missouri with fellow Broadway Clique drummer Dick Brown (6), recording their own music as well as other local rock, country, and bluegrass acts. The Broadway Clique existed through the 1970s and into the 1980s, when the name was shorted to The Clique (14). Eventually all of the Broadway Clique members, including McQuitty, had left the band and by the time The Clique's self-titled album was released in 1983, the sound was completely different, although McQuitty assumed management and production duties. Throughout the '80s, his career focus changed to business and management, where he put his master's degree in business administration to use. In 1983, his operations moved to State Line Road on the border of Missouri and Kansas, where he owned and managed the United Group, an umbrella organization that covered a cluster of companies: United Entertainment, which booked bands in eight or nine states and several local clubs; United Group Management, which managed The Clique (14) and The Hollowmen; United Recording Studios, Kansas City; United Entertainment Music, a music publishing company; and United Sound and Video, which installed sound and video systems for nightclubs. He also ran Stress Records (15) with releases from The Verandas and The Bon Ton Soul Accordion Band. He and banker Jack Hanrahan became majority owners of four clubs in Kansas City Missouri's Westport area, including The Hurricane, Kansas City, MO, The Lone Star, Guitars & Cadillacs, and Londons. He currently spends his time as an abstract expressionist painter in the Kansas City area.

Genres

• Rock
• R&B/Soul

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