Name | ABKCO Music & Records Inc |
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Predecessor | Allen Klein & Co. |
Foundation | 1961 |
Founder | Allen Klein |
Location city | New York, New York |
Location country | USA |
Num employees | 43 |
ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. is the largest independent record label in the world. It is a New York headquartered record label, music publisher, and film and video production company. It owns and or administers the rights to music by Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Marianne Faithfull, The Kinks as well as the Cameo Parkway label, which includes recordings by such artists as Chubby Checker, Bobby Rydell, The Orlons, The Dovells, Question Mark & The Mysterians, The Tymes and Dee Dee Sharp. Until 2009, ABKCO administered Philles Records and its master recordings, including hits by The Righteous Brothers, The Ronettes, The Crystals and others (via a licensing deal with EMI Music Publishing, who owned the Philles catalog since the mid-1990s).
ABKCO Records is currently distributed by Universal Music Group, which also controls distribution of the Rolling Stones' post-ABKCO catalog.
In addition to music, ABKCO controls the rights to Alejandro Jodorowsky's early films, including Fando y Lis, El Topo, and The Holy Mountain.
The label had been heavily criticized by many fans for keeping the Cameo-Parkway material unavailable until 2005. ABKCO's licensing policy prevented releasing the original version of songs for compilations. ABKCO sat on the entire catalog of music from artists such as Bobby Rydell and Chubby Checker. Some original artists had to re-record their hits for inclusion on bargain-basement oldies LP's. Checker was forced to re-record his hits such as "The Twist".
ABKCO is active in the release of compilations and reissues from its catalogs, film and commercial placement of its master recordings and music publishing properties. Jody Klein, president of ABKCO, has been credited in the liner notes of the recordings in not only getting the Cameo-Parkway recordings finally released, but also oversaw an extensive remastering of The Rolling Stones, the Animals, Herman's Hermits, and Sam Cooke's 1960s recordings. Allen Klein died in 2009.
ABKCO successfully sued The Verve over their song "Bitter Sweet Symphony", which samples an Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra recording of "The Last Time" by The Rolling Stones.
In July 2008, ABKCO filed a lawsuit against Lil Wayne for copyright infringement and unfair competition, specifically referring to the track "Playing with Fire" on his album Tha Carter III. In the lawsuit, ABKCO claims that the song was obviously derived from The Rolling Stones' "Play with Fire", song that ABKCO owns right to. As a result, "Playing with Fire" was removed from the online music tracklists for Tha Carter III.
Category:American record labels Category:Record labels established in 1967 Category:Music publishing companies Category:Labels distributed by Universal Music Group Category:Film soundtrack record labels Category:Reissue record labels
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