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Since the earliest days of the music business more than a century ago, record labels have come and gone, been taken over or merged. Some have been owned by retailers, DJs, agents, and managers, others by individual artists or groups or vast media and electronics conglomerates. For many fans, a symphony or song on the "right" label is almost as important as the artist recording it. From classical to soul, jazz to rock, folk to rap, every record label has a story to tell. Those stories are collected here — along with details about the labels' founders, artists, and corporate backers — providing a fascinating insight into one of the most important aspects of the history of popular music. Covering every major record label from A&M Records to Motown to ZTT, this historical guide is illustrated in full color.
Since the earliest days of the music business more than a century ago, record labels have come and gone, been taken over or merged. Some have been owned by retailers, DJs, agents, and managers, others by individual artists or groups or vast media and electronics conglomerates. For many fans, a symphony or song on the "right" label is almost as important as the artist recording it. From classical to soul, jazz to rock, folk to rap, every record label has a story to tell. Those stories are collected here — along with details about the labels' founders, artists, and corporate backers — providing a fascinating insight into one of the most important aspects of the history of popular music. Covering every major record label from A&M Records to Motown to ZTT, this historical guide is illustrated in full color.
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TRUMPETER/PRODUCER HERB ALPERT AND PRODUCER/PROMOTION MAN JERRY MOSS FOUNDED THEIR FAMOUS RECORD LABEL IN 1962, and used the initials from their surnames to create A&M. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
music operations, classical label, pop label, subsidiary label, new signings, jazz label, chart success, classical recordings, own record company, independent record companies, chart hits Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Warner Bros Records, Def Jam, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, Beggars Banquet, Rough Trade, Los Angeles, Tommy Boy, United Artists, Death Row, Atlantic Records, Elvis Presley, Island Records, Sugar Hill, Bad Boy, Blue Note, Philadelphia International, Sony Music, Blue Horizon, Capitol Records, Sun Records, Kylie Minogue, Ministry Of Sound, Pink Floyd New!
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TRUMPETER/PRODUCER HERB ALPERT AND PRODUCER/PROMOTION MAN JERRY MOSS FOUNDED THEIR FAMOUS RECORD LABEL IN 1962, and used the initials from their surnames to create A&M. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
music operations, classical label, pop label, subsidiary label, new signings, jazz label, chart success, classical recordings, own record company, independent record companies, chart hits Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Warner Bros Records, Def Jam, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, Beggars Banquet, Rough Trade, Los Angeles, Tommy Boy, United Artists, Death Row, Atlantic Records, Elvis Presley, Island Records, Sugar Hill, Bad Boy, Blue Note, Philadelphia International, Sony Music, Blue Horizon, Capitol Records, Sun Records, Kylie Minogue, Ministry Of Sound, Pink Floyd New!
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