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Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is a prominent African-American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African-Americans, as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and his collaborations with his "New Thing" contemporaries, most notably Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane.
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Art Blakey
Arthur "Art" Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990), known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.
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Audition Records
Audition Records After three years of releasing ambient, electronic music,Audiotalaia splits up in two labels in 2010. Audiotalaia keeps it's line of releases and Audition Records is a new division focusing efforts on publishing and promoting artists working on sound improvisation with electronics and classic instruments.
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B. B. King
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Barbara Mandrell
Barbara Ann Mandrell (born December 25, 1948) is an American country music singer best-known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows that helped her become one of country's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s. She is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Barry Mann
Barry Mann (born Barry Imberman, 9 February 1939, Brooklyn, New York) is an American songwriter, and part of a rock music songwriting partnership.
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Barry McGuire
Barry McGuire (born 15 October 1935) is an American singer-songwriter best known for the hit song "Eve of Destruction", and later as a singer and songwriter of Contemporary Christian Music.
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Betty Carter
Betty Carter (born Lillie Mae Jones, May 16, 1929 – September 26, 1998) was an American jazz singer renowned for her improvisational technique and idiosyncratic vocal style. Her devotion to the jazz idiom was such that her fellow vocalist Carmen McRae once claimed that "there's really only one jazz singer - only one: Betty Carter."
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Beverly Sills
Beverly Sills (May 25, 1929 – July 2, 2007) was an American operatic soprano between the 1950s and 1970s.
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Billy Davis Jr.
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Billy Davis, Jr.
Billy Davis, Jr. (born June 26, 1938; St. Louis, Missouri) is an American musician, best known as a member of The 5th Dimension. Along with his wife, Marilyn McCoo, he had hit records during 1976 and 1977 with I Hope We Get to Love in Time, Your Love, and ''You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show). Davis and McCoo were married in 1969 and were the main entertainers of a television program, The Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. Show, in 1977. That same year, You Don't Have to Be a Star'' won a Grammy Award.
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Bobby Vinton
Bobby Vinton (born Stanley Robert Vinton, Jr.; April 16, 1935) is an American pop music singer of Polish origins.
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Brownie McGhee
Walter Brown ("Brownie") McGhee (November 30, 1915 - February 16, 1996) was a blues singer and guitarist best known for his collaborations with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.
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Carl Carlton
Carl Carlton (born May 21, 1952, Detroit, Michigan) is an American R&B;, soul, and funk singer and songwriter best known for his hits "Everlasting Love" and "She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)".
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Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.
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Cliff Richard
Sir Cliff Richard, OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is an English singer, musician, performer, actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist, who has sold over 260 million records worldwide in a career spanning 7 decades.
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Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Hawkins was the first important jazz musician to use the instrument. As Joachim E. Berendt explained, "there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn". While Hawkins is most strongly associated with the swing music and big band era, he had a role in the development of bebop in the 1940s,
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Count Basie
William "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. Basie led his jazz orchestra almost continuously for nearly 50 years. Many notable musicians came to prominence under his direction, including tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel Evans, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison and singers Jimmy Rushing and Joe Williams. Basie's theme songs were "One O'Clock Jump" and "April In Paris".
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Creed Taylor
Creed Taylor (born May 13, 1929 in Bedford, Virginia) is an American record producer, best known for his work with CTI Records, which he founded in 1968. Taylor’s career also included work at Bethlehem Records, ABC-Paramount, Verve, and A&M; Records. He is widely acknowledged for bringing major bossa nova talent from Brazil (Antonio Carlos Jobim, João and Astrud Gilberto, among others) to record in the U.S. in the 1960s.
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Don Robey
Don Robey (November 1, 1903 – June 16, 1975) was an American record label executive, songwriter and record producer. As the founder of Peacock Records and the eventual owner of Duke Records, he was responsible for nurturing the careers of many rhythm and blues artists in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Dusty Springfield
'''Mary Isabel/Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, OBE (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), known professionally as Dusty Springfield''', was an English singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s. She is best known for her work during the 1960s, when she released singles such as "I Only Want to Be with You" (1963), "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (1966) and "Son of a Preacher Man" (1968), and her most acclaimed album Dusty in Memphis (1969). With her distinctive sensual sound, she is an important white soul singer, and at her peak was one of the most successful British female performers, with 18 singles in the Billboard Hot 100 from 1964 to 1970. Her image, supported by a peroxide blonde beehive hairstyle, evening gowns, and heavy make-up, made her an icon of the Swinging Sixties, and she remains an enduring camp icon, especially in the gay community.
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Eddie Holman
Eddie Holman (born June 3, 1946) is an American singer and recording artist. He is best known for his 1970 hit song "Hey There Lonely Girl".
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Eddie Lund
Eddie Lund (October 12, 1909 – December 4, 1973) was a pianist and bandleader.
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Eddie Vinson
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B; alto saxophonist and blues shouter. He was nicknamed Cleanhead after a lye-laced straightener destroyed his hair.
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Emitt Rhodes
Emitt Lynn Rhodes is an American singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer born February 25, 1950 in Decatur, Illinois. When he was five his family moved to Hawthorne, California. Considered by many as "the one man Beatles," his solo recordings of the early 1970s show a clear Paul McCartney influence in both vocals and musicianship. Rhodes began his career in musical ensembles The Palace Guard (as the group's drummer) and The Merry-Go-Round (multi-instrumentalist), leaving the drums to the expertise of Joel Larson.
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Enoch Light
Enoch Henry Light (born Canton, 18 August 1905, died Redding 31 July 1978) was a classical violinist, bandleader, and recording engineer. As A&R; chief and vice-president of Grand Award Records, he founded Command Records in 1959. Light's name was prominent on many albums both as musician and producer. In the 1930s Light studied conducting with the French conductor Maurice Frigara in Paris.
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Eydie Gormé
Eydie Gormé (also spelled as Eydie Gorme; born August 16, 1931) is an American singer and chanteuse, specializing, with her husband, Steve Lawrence, in traditional pop music, in the form of ballads and breezy swing. She has earned numerous awards, including the Grammy and the Emmy. The couple are still active professionally (as of 2009).
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Fats Domino
Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino (born February 26, 1928) is an American R&B; and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter. He was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Ferrante & Teicher
Ferrante & Teicher were a duo of American piano players, known for their light arrangements of familiar classical pieces, movie soundtracks, and show tunes.
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Florence Ballard
Florence Glenda Ballard Chapman (June 30, 1943 – February 22, 1976), nicknamed "Flo" and "Blondie", was an American singer, and one of the original founders of the Motown group The Supremes.
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Frank Fontaine
Frank Fontaine (19 April 1920 – 4 August 1978) was an American comedian and singer.
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Frankie Laine
Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio (Chicago, March 30, 1913 – San Diego, February 6, 2007), was a successful American singer, songwriter and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005. Often billed as America's Number One Song Stylist, his other nicknames include Mr. Rhythm, Old Leather Lungs, and Mr. Steel Tonsils. His hits included "That's My Desire", "That Lucky Old Sun", "Mule Train", "Cry of the Wild Goose", "Jezebel", "High Noon", "I Believe", "Hey Joe!", "The Kid's Last Fight", "Cool Water", "Moonlight Gambler", "Love is a Golden Ring", "Rawhide", and "Lord, You Gave Me a Mountain".
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Freddie Hubbard
Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard (April 7, 1938 – December 29, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on. His unmistakable and influential tone contributed to new perspectives for modern jazz and bebop.
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George Hamilton IV
George Hamilton IV (born July 19, 1937, Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American country musician. He began performing in the late 1950s as a teen idol, later switching to pop-country and folk music.
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Guy Marks
Guy Marks (31 October 1923 — 28 November 1987) was an American comedian and impressionist.
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Irish ethnicity
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Jack Scott (singer)
Jack Scott (born Giovanni Dominico Scafone Jr., January 24, 1936, Windsor, Ontario, Canada) is an Canadian/American singer and songwriter. He was the first white rock and roll star to come out of Detroit, Michigan. He has been called "undeniably the greatest Canadian rock and roll singer of all time."
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Jimmy Rushing
James Andrew Rushing (August 26, 1901 – June 8, 1972), known as Jimmy Rushing, was an American blues shouter and swing jazz singer from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, best known as the featured vocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948.
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Jimmy Witherspoon
Jimmy Witherspoon (August 8, 1920 – September 18, 1997) was an American blues singer.
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Joe Stampley
Joe Stampley (born June 6, 1943, Springhill, Webster Parish, Louisiana) is an American country music singer known for several well-selling songs.
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Joe Walsh
:For other persons named Joseph/Joe Walsh, see Joseph/Joe Walsh
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John Coltrane
John William Coltrane (sometimes abbreviated "Trane"; September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes in jazz and later was at the forefront of free jazz. He was prolific, organizing at least fifty recording sessions as a leader during his recording career, and appeared as a sideman on many other albums, notably with trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk.
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John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, born near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta blues, his music was metrically free. John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his masterful and idiosyncratic blues guitar and singing. His best known songs include "Boogie Chillen'" (1948) and "Boom Boom" (1962).
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John Wesley Ryles
John Wesley Ryles (born December 2, 1950 in Bastrop, Louisiana) is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1968 with the single "Kay", a Top Ten hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles (now Hot Country Songs) charts, and the title track to his debut album for Columbia Records.
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Josh White
Joshua Daniel White (February 11, 1914 – September 5, 1969), best known as Josh White, was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and civil rights activist. In the early 1930s, he also recorded under the names "Pinewood Tom" and "Tippy Barton."
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Kevin Ayers
Kevin Ayers (born 16 August 1944 in Herne Bay, Kent) is an English songwriter and was a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement. BBC DJ John Peel wrote in his autobiography that "Kevin Ayers' talent is so acute you could perform major eye surgery with it."
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Kracker
:For the American musician, see Uncle Kracker
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Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992) was an American musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, hosting The Lawrence Welk Show from 1955 to 1982. His style came to be known to his large number of radio, television, and live-performance fans (and critics) as "champagne music."
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Lenny Williams
Lenny Williams (born Leonard Charles Williams, February 16, 1945, Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American singer known for his work in the R&B; and soul music genres. During the 1970s, he was the lead vocalist for Tower of Power. As a soloist, he made several hit recordings, including "Cause I Love You" and "Choosing You".
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Levon Helm
Mark Lavon Helm (born May 26, 1940), best known as Levon Helm, is an American rock multi-instrumentalist and actor who achieved fame as the drummer and frequently lead and backing vocalist for the R&B;/rock group The Band. Helm is known for his deeply soulful, country-accented voice, and creative drumming style highlighted on many of The Band's recordings, such as "The Weight", "Up on Cripple Creek", "Ophelia" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". His 2007 comeback album Dirt Farmer earned the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album in February 2008, and in November of that year, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him #91 in the list of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. In 2010, Electric Dirt, his 2009 follow-up to Dirt Farmer, won the first ever Grammy Award for Best Americana Album, an inaugural category in 2010.
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Lloyd Price
Lloyd Price (born March 9, 1933) is an American R&B; vocalist. Known as "Mr. Personality", after the name of one of his biggest million-selling hits. His first recording, "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" was a huge hit on Specialty Records in 1952, and although he continued to turn out records, none were as popular until several years later, when he refined the New Orleans beat and achieved a series of national hits. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
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Louis Armstrong
Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Marilyn McCoo
Marilyn McCoo (born September 30, 1943) is an American singer, actress, and television presenter, who is best known for being the lead female vocalist in the group The 5th Dimension, as well as hosting the 1980s music countdown series Solid Gold. She is the wife of singer Billy Davis, Jr., the founder and co-member of The 5th Dimension, whom she married in 1969.
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Mighty Clouds of Joy
The Mighty Clouds of Joy is an American gospel quartet.
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O. V. Wright
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Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman (born March 9, 1930) is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s.
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Otis Spann
Otis Spann (March 21, 1930 – April 24, 1970 ) was an American blues musician. Many aficionados considered him then, and now, as Chicago's leading postwar blues pianist.
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Paul Anka
Paul Albert Anka, OC (born July 30, 1941) is a Canadian American singer, songwriter, and actor.
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Ramones
The Ramones were an American rock band that formed in Forest Hills, Queens, New York in 1974, often cited as the first punk rock group. Despite achieving only limited commercial success, the band was a major influence on the punk rock movement both in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. Ray was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm & blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.
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Richard Harris
Richard St. John Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) was an Irish actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer.
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Roy Clark
Roy Linwood Clark (born April 15, 1933) is an American country music musician and performer. He is best known for hosting Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show, from 1969–1992. Clark has been a popular figure in country music, both as a musician and as a popularizer of the genre. He is an entertainer most of all, with an amiable personality and a telegenic presence.
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Roy Head
Roy Head (born September 1, 1941, Three Rivers, Texas) is an American singer, best known for his hit "Treat Her Right."
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Rufus (band)
Rufus was an American funk band, from Chicago, Illinois; best known for launching the career of lead singer Chaka Khan. They had several hits throughout their career, including "Tell Me Something Good," "Sweet Thing," and "Ain't Nobody."
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Shelly Manne
Shelly Manne (June 11, 1920 – September 26, 1984), born Sheldon Manne in New York City, was an American jazz drummer. Most frequently associated with West Coast jazz, he was known for his versatility and also played in a number of other styles, including Dixieland, swing, bebop, avant-garde jazz and fusion, as well as contributing to the musical background of hundreds of Hollywood films and television programs.
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Shirley Scott
Shirley Scott (March 14, 1934 – March 10, 2002) was an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist. She was known as 'Queen of the Organ'.
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Sonny Rollins
Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930 in New York City) is a Grammy-winning American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards.
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Sonny Terry
Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry (24 October 1911 - 11 March 1986) was a blind blues musician. He was most widely known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers, and imitations of trains and fox hunts.
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Soupy Sales
Soupy Sales (January 8, 1926 – October 22, 2009) was an American comedian, actor, radio-TV personality and host, and jazz aficionado. He was best known for his local and network children's television show, Lunch with Soupy Sales; a series of comedy sketches frequently ending with Sales receiving a pie in the face, which became his trademark.
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The Elegants
The Elegants is an American doo-wop vocal group, that was started in 1958 by Vito Picone, Arthur Venosa, Frank Tardogano, Carmen Romano and James Mochella in South Beach, Staten Island, New York. Before their nursery rhyme inspired song, "Little Star", became a number one hit, the band usually performed informally under the boardwalk by their homes. "Little Star" was the only million seller for the group, and was written by Venosa and Picone.
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The Impressions
The Impressions are an American music group from Chicago, originally formed in 1958. Their repertoire includes doo-wop, gospel, soul, and R&B.;
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Tommy Roe
For the English footballer of the same name see Tommy Roe (footballer)
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Yusef Lateef
Dr. Yusef Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston, October 9, 1920) is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator and a renowned spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Community after his conversion to Ahmadiyya religion in 1950.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; , Spanish for "The Angels") is the second most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of California and the western United States, with a population of 3.83 million within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Los Angeles extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of over 14.8 million and it is the 14th largest urban area in the world, affording it megacity status. The metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is home to nearly 12.9 million residents while the broader Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside combined statistical area (CSA) contains nearly 17.8 million people. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most multicultural counties in the United States. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos" ().
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Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. The extended Times Square area, also called the Theatre District, consists of the blocks between Sixth and Eighth Avenues from east to west, and West 40th and West 53rd Streets from south to north, making up the western part of the commercial area of Midtown Manhattan.
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USA
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ABC News Electronic Health Record
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ABC 45RPM Oldies Treasure Chest - "Who Put the Bomp" & "Sealed With a Kiss"
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*** Also uploaded to Vimeo on May 1, 2009 (vimeo.com *** One side: Barry Mann: "Who Put The Bomp" Other side: Brian Hyland: "Sealed With A Kiss" ABC Records - Oldies Treasure Chest -------------------------------------------- One of my dad's favorite records. Taken with my Sony CCD-TRV608 Hi-8 Handycam. *** Sorry about the exposure setting. Maybe I'll set it a little darker in my future videos. *** Played on my Pioneer PL-518.
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OV Wright ~ I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled, and Crazy ♫
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- Published: 16 Jun 2008
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- Author: ThaGrooveallegiance
From ABC Records, Back Beat label. I give full credit to the artists for the song used in this video. I do not claim any of the material to be my own. Support the artist, by buying the record.
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OV Wright ~ You're Gonna Make Me Cry ♫
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- Published: 16 Jun 2008
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- Author: ThaGrooveallegiance
ABC Records Back Beat recording artist. "'nJoy" I give full credit to the artists for the song used in this video. I do not claim any of the material to be my own. Support the artist, by buying the record.
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Joe Bennett and The Sparkletones - Black Slacks, 45 Record
Joe Bennett and The Sparkletones - Black Slacks ABC-Paramount Records 1957
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NOLAN PORTER IF I COULD ONLY BE SURE
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- Published: 14 Dec 2009
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- Author: TheEddie134
THIS IS A TRUE CLASSIC ON ABC RECORDS
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Freda Payne-Lost In Love
"Lost in Love"is an ABC Records release from the 1975 album"Out Of Payne Comes Love".Writers:D.Batteau/J.Klemmer.Combined with a dash of R&B and a touch of Jazz,this smooth,easy-listening ballad is the charming Freda Payne finding herself relentlessly lost in love.
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the gaylads - abc rocksteady - gayfeet records
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- Published: 03 Jan 2009
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- Author: pablowkingstoned
the gaylads - abc rocksteady - gayfeet records
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Lacey Sturm on ABC News Radio
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- Duration: 9:46
- Published: 23 Nov 2009
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- Author: FlyleafMementoMori
Flyleaf's Lacey Sturm's interveiw on ABC radio * All credit goes to Flyleaf, Lacey sturm , ABC Radio, and whoever else* PLZ no rude comments, if you don't like Flyleaf why are you here?!?!!?
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Ray Charles Ruby
One of the best from the great Ray Charles. Ray Charles (September 23, 1930 -- June 10, 2004) was an American musician. Charles was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm & blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings for Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums.[3][4][5] During his tenure with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company. Rolling Stone ranked Charles number 10 on their list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2004,[6] and voted him number two on their November 2008 list of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time".[7]
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Ray Charles - The Train (Slayd5000)
Slayd5000 presents... Ray Charles - The Train (Promo 45) N-joi! & subscribe to my channel. Positive comments are always welcome. More to come.
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Nolan Porter If I Could Only Be Sure
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- Published: 10 May 2009
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One Way ft Al Hudson "Guess You Didn't Know" (1979)
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- Duration: 6:22
- Published: 21 Jun 2009
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- Author: rovingeye2
One Way was an R&B/funk band that was popular in the late 1970s, and throughout most of the 1980s. One Way was formed in 1979 in Detroit, Michigan and were originally known as Soul Partners. Al Hudson, Alicia Meyers, guitarists Dave Roberson and Cortez Harris, bassist Kevin McCord, drummer Gregory Green and keyboardist Jonathan Meadows were the original members. They first recorded as "Al Hudson and the Partners", scoring an R&B hit on the ABC label called "You Can Do It" in 1979. At that time, however, ABC Records was in the process of being taken over by MCA Records as part of a buyout, and when the band moved to the MCA label, they subsequently changed their name to One Way featuring Al Hudson before becoming One Way. They were on MCA from 1980 to 1988. They scored five Top 10 US R&B chart hits, with the biggest being "Cutie Pie," which reached number four in 1982. Candye Edwards was the female lead of the group from 1981 to 1985. Edwards' debut was on the Fancy Dancer album, and she remained with the group throughout the biggest successes, including "Cutie Pie." They had minor minor hits on the UK Singles Chart with "Music" (1979) and "Let's Talk About Shhh" (1985). They moved to Capitol Records in 1988, where they released their final album (to date), A New Beginning later that same year.
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Carl Carlton - Competition Ain't Nothing
Another legendary Northern Soul smash, that we filmed for The Strange World Of Northern Soul, from Detroit wonderboy Little Carl Carlton, recorded when he was a teenager originally. Detroiter Carl Carlton first began recording as Little Carl Carlton in the late 1960's. First for Lando records with "I Love True Love" and then "Competition Ain't Nothing" for Back Beat records. Carlton scored minor chart hits for Back Beat with "46 Drums - 1 Guitar," "Oh Mary How I Got Over," "I Can Feel It" and "Drop By My Place," which broke the R&B Top 20 and the pop Top 40. After Back Beat was sold to ABC records in 1972 Carlton's first release for his new label was "I Wanna Be Your Main Squeeze." The b-side was given a 'disco-remix' and re-released as a 1974 single "Everlasting Love" garnered him a Top Ten pop hit and the album produced two more singles "Morning, Noon and Night" and his second pop hit, a cover of Rufus' "Smokin' Room." 1975 saw Carlton travelling to Philadelphia to work with producer/songwritwer Bunny Sigler. Though the album credits the backing musicians as MFSB, the core rhythm section is Instant Funk, which was a part of MFSB and scored a million-seller four years later with "I Got My Mind Made Up." The resulting album, "I Wanna Be With You," is generally regarded as one of Carlton's best albums. Despite the release of three singles, "Ain't Been No One Before You" (released January 1976), "Ain't Gonna Tell Nobody (About You) (charted the summer of 1976), and "Live <b>...</b>
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The 5th Dimension - Greatest Hits
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- Duration: 10:30
- Published: 16 Jul 2010
- Uploaded: 25 Sep 2011
- Author: TheBacmaster
California Soul - 1968 Love's Lines, Angles & Rymes - 1971 Workin' On a Groovy Thing - 1969 The 5th Dimension are an American popular music vocal group, whose repertoire also includes pop, R&B, soul, and jazz. The 5th Dimension were best-known during the late 1960s and early 1970s for popularizing the hits "Up, Up and Away", "Wedding Bell Blues", "Stoned Soul Picnic", "One Less Bell to Answer", "(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All", and "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In", as well as the eponymous 5th Dimension and The Magic Garden LP recordings. The five original members were Billy Davis, Jr., Florence LaRue, Marilyn McCoo, Lamonte McLemore, and Ron Townson. They have recorded for several different labels over their long careers. Their first work appeared on the Soul City label, which was started by Imperial Records/United Artists Records recording artist Johnny Rivers. The group would later record for Bell/Arista Records, ABC Records, and Motown Records. Budding young songwriter Jimmy Webb supplied the group with their breakthrough hit, "Up, Up and Away", a top 10 hit in mid-1967, which won five Grammy Awards. The following year, the group scored major hit singles with Laura Nyro's "Stoned Soul Picnic" (US #3) and "Sweet Blindness" (US #13) and received a gold record for their album Stoned Soul Picnic, which also included the Ashford & Simpson-written "California Soul". In 1969, they had two number one singles: "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" from the musical Hair and <b>...</b>
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In All My Wildest Dreams - Joe Sample
off of 1978 ABC Records here's is Joe Sample's "In All My Wildest Dreams" sampled on De la Soul's "WRMS's Dedication to the Bitty" Arrested Development's "Africa's Inside Me" and Tupac's "Dear Mama"...
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NOLAN PORTER -- IF ONLY I COULD BE SURE
From the album NOLAN also contains keep on keepin' on & Oh baby. ABC records 1972
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CHAKA KHAN 's(RUFUS) MASTERJAM 70'S MOTOWN CLASSIC OLD SCHOOL SOUL
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- Published: 15 May 2010
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- Author: ChakaFanTV
Masterjam is the eighth studio album by funk band Rufus (billed as 'Rufus & Chaka'), their debut on the MCA Records label following their purchase and dissolution of ABC Records, released in 1979. Masterjam which was produced by Quincy Jones was the band's fourth album to top Billboard's R&B Albums chart and also reached #14 on Pop. The album includes the singles "Do You Love What You Feel", their fourth #1 hit on the R&B Singles chart and also #30 on Pop, "Any Love" (US R&B #24, 1980) and "I'm Dancing for Your Love" (US R&B #43, 1980). Following Masterjam Chaka Khan recorded her second solo album Naughty and Rufus Party 'Til You're Broke, both released in 1980. Khan reunited with the band again in 1981 for the recording of Camouflage.
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My Record Collection - MORE 60s Psychedelic Obscurities
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- Published: 26 Feb 2008
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- Author: myrecordcollection
Here are some more rare and obscure psychedelic albums from my record collection. Some of these artists you may be familiar with, but others are extremely obscure. Sorry for my weird voice; I had a cold: 1) Lee Michaels -- Carnival of Life (A&M 1968) 2) Love Generation (Imperial 1967) 3) Good Rats (Kapp 1968) 4) Deep Six (Liberty 1966) 5) Val Stoecklein -- Grey Life (Dot 1968) 6) McCoys -- Human Ball (Mercury 1969) 7) Rotary Connection -- Songs (Cadet Concept 1970) 8) Great Metropolitan Steam Band (Decca 1969) 9) Zig Zag People -- Take Bubblegum Music Underground (Decca 1969) 10) Paupers -- Ellis Island (Verve 1969) 11) Bubble Gum Machine (Senate 1968) 12) Edison Electric Band -- Bless You, Dr. Woodward (Cotillion 1970) 13) Free Spirits -- Out of Sight and Sound (ABC 1966) 14) Group Image -- A Mouth in the Clouds (Community 1968) 15) Blues Magoos -- Never Goin' Back to Georgia (ABC 1969)
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ray charles-i got a woman-I've Got A Woman-well
I've Got A Woman well I got a woman way over town that's good to me oh yeah Say I got a woman way over town good to me oh yeah She give me money when Im in need Yeah she's a kind of friend indeed I got a woman way over town that's good to me oh yeah She saves her lovin early in the morning just for me oh yeah She saves her lovin early in the morning just for me oh yeah She saves her lovin just for me oh she love me so tenderly I got a woman way over town that's good to me oh yeah Sax Solo She's there to love me both day and night Never grumbles or fusses always treats me right Never runnin in the streets and leavin me alone She knows a womans place is right there now in her home I got a woman way over town that's good to me oh yeah Say I got a woman way over town that's good to me oh yeah Oh she's my baby now don't you understand Yeah and I'm her lover man I got a woman way over town that's good to me oh yeah A Don't ya know she's alright A Don't ya know she's alright she's alright she's alright Whoa yeah oh yeah oh Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 -- June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. Ray was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm & blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records.[1][2] He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds <b>...</b>
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The 5th Dimension - "One Less Bell To Answer" (1970)
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- Published: 03 Apr 2010
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Marilyn McCoo (born September 30, 1943 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American singer and actress, who is well known for being the lead female vocalist in the group The 5th Dimension, as well as hosting the 1980s music countdown series Solid Gold. In the early and mid-1960s, McCoo was a member of the Hi-Fi's, who often opened for Ray Charles. This group included Lamonte McLemore, who would join McCoo in The 5th Dimension, as well as Harry Elston and Floyd Butler, who would go on to form The Friends of Distinction. She met Billy Davis, Jr. in 1966 when he established the group, then called The Versatiles. The group's first big hit was with 1967's "Up, Up and Away", written by Jimmy Webb. The song won four 1968 Grammy Awards and was the title track to 5th Dimension's first hit LP. Their follow-up was a cover of Laura Nyro's "Stoned Soul Picnic". "Wedding Bell Blues", featuring McCoo's most prominent vocal of that period, and a medley of "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" (from the musical Hair) both reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1969 with "Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In" winning the Grammy for 'Record of the Year'. By the early 1970s, McCoo began to sing lead on the group's remaining chart-topping singles, "One Less Bell to Answer", "(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep At All" and "If I Could Reach You." In 1975, McCoo and Davis left The 5th Dimension and began performing as a duo. Landing a contract with ABC Records, they recorded their 1976 debut album, I <b>...</b>
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The Dixie Hummingbirds - Short History
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- Published: 18 Nov 2008
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The Dixie Hummingbirds are an influential American gospel music group, spanning more than 75 years from the jubilee quartet style of the 1920s, through the "hard gospel" quartet style of Gospel's golden age in the 1940s and 1950s, to the eclectic pop-tinged songs of the present era. Formed in 1928 in Greenville, South Carolina, by James B. Davis and his classmates, they sang in local churches until they finished school, then started touring throughout the South. Lead singer Ira Tucker joined the group in 1938 at age 13, and they signed with Decca Records. In addition to his formidable vocal skills, Tucker introduced the energetic showmanship - running through the aisles, jumping off stage, falling to his knees in prayer - copied by many quartets that followed. Tucker also took the lead in the stylistic innovations adopted by the group, combining gospel shouting and subtle melismas with the syncopated delivery made popular by The Golden Gate Quartet, as well as adventuresome harmonies, which the group called "trickeration", in which Paul Owens or another member of the group would pick up a note just as Tucker left off. The group relocated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1940s. During the years, a number of talented singers starred in the group--their bass, William Bobo, baritone Beachy Thompson, James Walker, who replaced Owens, and Claude Jeter, who went on to star for The Swan Silvertones. The Hummingbirds added a guitarist, Howard Carroll, who added even more <b>...</b>
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ABC News Interviews Bon Iver at Sound Fix (Part One)
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- Published: 31 Mar 2008
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ABC News interviewed Bon Iver at Sound Fix Records in Brooklyn, NY after his recent in-store performance at the Sound Fix Lounge. (Part 1 of 2)
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![Artic Monkeys performing on Orange stage at Roskilde Festival in 2007. During the 1970s David Bowie, himself of a father from Tadcaster in North Yorkshire,[158] hired three musicians from Hull in the form of Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder and Mick Woodmansey; together they recorded Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, an album that went on to become widely considered as one of the greatest and most influential of all time.](http://web.archive.org./web/20111013032156im_/http://cdn3.wn.com/pd/d3/52/e079d428d64682f70431c7883725_thumb.jpg "Artic Monkeys performing on Orange stage at Roskilde Festival in 2007. During the 1970s David Bowie, himself of a father from Tadcaster in North Yorkshire,[158] hired three musicians from Hull in the form of Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder and Mick Woodmansey; together they recorded Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, an album that went on to become widely considered as one of the greatest and most influential of all time.")
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Sonny Terry
B. J. Thomas
Three Dog Night
Joe Turner
Eddie Vinson
Bobby Vinton
T-Bone Walker
Joe Walsh
Wha-Koo
Josh White
Chico Williams
Lenny Williams
Jimmy Witherspoon
O. V. Wright
Addison Records
Anchor Records
Apt Records
Back Beat Records
Bigtop Records
Bluesway Records
Blue Thumb Records
Boom Records
Buluu Dunhill Records
Chancellor Records
Cimarron Records
Command Records
Colonial Records
Dot Records
Dunhill Records
Duke Records
Equinox Records
Fargo Records
Grand Award Records
GTO Records
Hickory Records
Hot Buttered Soul Records
Hunt Records
Impulse Records
Jerden Records
LHI Records
Montel Records
Myrrh Records
Oliver Records
Passport Records
Peacock Records
Probe Records
Senate Records
Shelter Records
Sire Records
Song Bird Records
Tangerine Records
20th Century Fox Records
Westminster Records
Wren Records
The Jim Croce catalog is controlled by his estate in conjunction with Saja Records and distributed primarily by Warner Music Group
The Ray Charles catalog is controlled by Ray's estate and is also distributed by Warner Music Group through its Rhino Entertainment unit.
The Amazing Rhythm Aces catalog is controlled by Sony Music Entertainment
The recordings that former 5th Dimension members Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. made for ABC are controlled by McCoo and Davis through their company BilMar Productions and currently distributed by Collectors Choice Music.
Lawrence Welk acquired his Dot recordings (prior to ABC acquiring the label) which were reissued on his Ranwood Records label.
Pop, rock, and R&B;: Geffen Records
Jazz: Impulse!/Verve Records
Country: MCA Nashville Records
Classical: Deutsche Grammophon Records
Musical theater: Decca Broadway Records
List of record labels
The ABC-Paramount Records story
History
ABC-Paramount (full name "American Broadcasting-Paramount Theaters") -- the direct antecedent of the present-day American Broadcasting Company -- evolved from federal antitrust actions taken against the movie studios and broadcasting companies in the 1940s and early 1950s. As a result of a 1943 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) action against anti-competitive practices, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was forced to sell off its broadcast subsidiary the Blue Network, the sister network of NBC, and Blue was purchased by the American Broadcasting System, Inc. In 1953 American Broadcasting merged with United Paramount Theaters, the divested former exhibition/cinema division of Paramount Pictures. The newly merged corporation was chaired by former Paramount Theaters executive Leonard Goldenson and was originally headquartered at 1501 Broadway in New York City, above the Paramount Theater in Times Square.In addition to producing records directly, ABC licensed finished masters from independent producers and purchased regionally-released records for national distribution. The corporate name of Am-Par Record Corporation was changed to ABC-Paramount Records, Inc. in 1962, and then to ABC Records, Inc. in 1967.
In 1965, Clark was promoted to vice-president in charge of AB-PT's non-broadcast operations and national sales manager Larry Newton was named ABC-Paramount president. The label was officially renamed ABC Records in 1966. They distributed Dunhill Records until this label was purchased under Newton to form ABC-Dunhill Records. They also distributed 20th Century Fox Records, Sire Records and UK-based Anchor Records. In 1970, ABC-Dunhill moved its headquarters to Los Angeles and Newton was promoted by ABC to vice-president in charge of ABC Pictures and Dunhill co-founder Jay Lasker was named president. Lasker left ABC to join Ariola America Records. In 1974, ABC switched British distribution from EMI to the EMI-distributed Anchor Records, allowing ABC recordings to be issued on the ABC label in the UK and Anchor records to be distributed by ABC on the Anchor label. As a cost cutting, but in retrospect ill-conceived move in the mid-1970s, ABC Records discarded their multitrack master tapes to save storage space. So when the affected recordings were reissued on compact discs in the 1980s and beyond, the CDs had to be mastered using the finished album masters which often had inferior sound. The record company's final president, Steve Diener, was named president in 1977 after serving as head of ABC Records' international division. Because the company was suffering financial problems, ABC Records was sold in 1979 to MCA Records, which discontinued the ABC label on March 5, 1979. The better selling albums in the ABC Records catalog were reissued on the MCA label.
Sub-labels and acquisitions
ABC Records sub-labeled Apt Records to release singles. In the early 1960s, they purchased the Westminster Records classical music label. In 1961 ABC launched its new Impulse! Records label to record and distribute jazz. Under the guidance of the founding label manager Creed Taylor and his successor Bob Thiele, Impulse soon became famous for its innovative releases, most notably the string of groundbreaking albums recorded by John Coltrane between 1961 and his death in 1967. Several years later, Bluesway Records was created to distribute ABC's blues releases.ABC Records purchased Dunhill Records in the summer of 1967, forming "ABC Dunhill Records." They purchased Don Robey's record labels including Duke Records, Peacock Records, Back Beat Records and Song Bird Records on May 23, 1973. Afterwards, they also purchased the Famous Music record labels from Paramount Pictures' then-parent Gulf and Western in 1974 (these included Dot Records and Blue Thumb Records). With the Famous acquisition, ABC gained a distribution deal with Sire Records. ABC distributed (through Sire) the first releases by punk band the Ramones. Sire switched to Warner Bros. distribution in 1977, being sold to WB a year later.
In addition to sub-labels, ABC Records purchased all labels from Enoch Light in October, 1959. ABC acquired Audition Records, Command Performance Records, Colortone Records and Waldorf Music Hall Records.
In 1979, ABC Records was acquired by MCA Records for the sale price of $30 million. It briefly operated as a unit of MCA before it was dissolved and absorbed into MCA; MCA in turn would eventually be absorbed into the Universal Music Group.
This is not the same ABC Records that operates in Australia, which is run by national pubcaster the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (although the Ampar label was distributed in Australia in the 1950s and 1960s, first by W&G; Records (1955–60) and then by Festival Records), nor is it the sublabel of Voiceprint Records.
ABC-Paramount/ABC Records label variations
Types of output
Artists associated with ABC Records and its labels
Labels associated with ABC Records
Management of ABC Records catalogue today
The catalogues of ABC Records and its sublabels are now controlled by Universal Music Group with exceptions being the following:
As for what Universal owns, the following labels manage various parts of the catalogue depending on the genre:
In all five of these cases, the management also includes releases from other labels absorbed into ABC over the years. For example, MCA Nashville's catalogue includes country releases on Dot Records, and Deutsche Grammophon's catalogue includes the Westminster Records catalogue, as well as various soundtracks released by Dot and Paramount Records (among other labels) that consisted of orchestral arrangements.
See also
References
External links
Category:American record labels Category:Jazz record labels Category:Defunct record labels Category:Record labels established in 1955 Category:Record labels disestablished in 1979 Category:Vivendi subsidiaries
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