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Elektra Records (now Elektra Entertainment Group Inc.) is an American major record label owned by Warner Music Group (WMG). It was founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman, and played an important role in the development of contemporary folk music and rock music between the 1950s and 1970s. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMG's Atlantic Records Group. After five years of dormancy, the label was revived as an imprint of Atlantic in 2009, and is now run by Jeff Castelaz.
Elektra was formed in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt in Holzman's St. John's College dorm room. Each invested $300. The usual spelling of the Greek mythological Pleiad Electra was changed. Holzman famously explained, “I gave her the ‘K’ that I lacked”. He found the 'C' in the original name "too soft" but liked the "solid bite" of the letter 'K', citing its use in the Kodak name.
The first Elektra LP, New Songs (EKLP 1 released March 1951), was a collection of Lieder and similar art songs, which sold few copies. During the Fifties and early Sixties, the label concentrated on folk music recordings, releasing a number of best-selling albums by Theodore Bikel, Ed McCurdy, Oscar Brand, Judy Collins, and protest singers such as Phil Ochs and Tom Paxton. Holzman also recorded Josh White, who was without a record deal as a result of McCarthyite blacklisting.
Womack & Womack was the singing and songwriting partnership of American musicians Cecil Womack and his wife, Linda Womack. The duo were successful as songwriters for other artists, and had several international hits as a singing duo in the 1980s and 1990s. Later recordings, with other members of their family, were credited to The House of Zekkariyas.
Cecil Womack was born in 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio, and performed with his older brothers Bobby (1944–2014), Harry (1945–1974), Friendly and Curtis, as a gospel group. After meeting Sam Cooke, they changed their name to The Valentinos and in 1961 began to sing and record "the devil's music" for secular audiences, to the horror of their religious father. The Valentinos had a hit record with "Lookin' for a Love," selling two million copies, later becoming a no. 39 U.S. hit for The J. Geils Band in 1971. They toured with James Brown and scored another crossover hit with “It's All Over Now”, a song which subsequently reached no. 1 in the UK when covered by The Rolling Stones in 1964. But the fall-out from Cooke's death – he was shot by a motel manager in Los Angeles in December 1964 – and Bobby Womack's marriage halted their progress.
Electra was a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology.
Electra or Elektra may also refer to:
"Baby I" is a song recorded by American singer Ariana Grande for her debut studio album, Yours Truly (2013). It was written by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Antonio Dixon and Patrick "J. Que" Smith and produced by the first two. The song was released by Republic Records on July 22, 2013, as the second single from the album.
In an interview with Complex, Grande reveals that "Baby I" was originally written by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds for Beyoncé. Grande also stated that it was actually Mac Miller who picked "Baby I" to be the second single for her album.
Grande opined that "Baby I" was more "sophisticated" and "mature" and showed off her musicality and vocals more than her previous hit single "The Way", which was part of what made her excited to release the song. She was revealing snippets of the song days before its release. The single was released to the digital retailer iTunes on July 22, 2013.
"Baby I" is an uptempo pop and R&B song that runs for a duration of three minutes and seventeen seconds. "Baby I" is set in common time at a tempo of 102 BPM in the key of C♯ major, and D Major after the bridge. It was written and produced by Babyface, Tony Dixon and j.Que. A writer from Rap-Up describes the track as a "summertime record" which features Grande's "big vocals" over a "breezy beat". Several critics noted the '90s R&B music influence demonstrated in "Baby I", which will also be musically present on the rest of her album, Yours Truly. Additionally, '70s disco energy is also present in the song, with PopCrush describing it as "Mariah Carey gone retro".
"I Believe" is the first single from female Japanese artist, Ayaka. It entered the Oricon charts at the tenth spot and slowly rose to number three, having a total of 236,012 sales. It was used as the drama Rondo's theme song.
Sing Chew, a female singer from Singapore, and Eric Martin did a cover of this song.
Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman unveils his label retrospective boxset, Forever Changing, created by Rhino UK. Visit http://www.rhino.co.uk/elektra for more information and to order
The hit from the British rockers. Put it on 1080p for the highest quality! Audio recorded with Audacity. Video shot with HTC Thunderbolt and edited with Windows Live Movie Maker. My Copyright Disclaimer: Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
Womack & Womack was the singing and songwriting partnership of American musicians Cecil Womack and his wife, Linda Womack. The duo were successful as songwriters for other artists, and had several international hits as a singing duo in the 1980s and 1990s. Later recordings, with other members of their family, were credited to The House of Zekkariyas. In 1983, Cecil and Linda began performing and recording together as Womack & Womack, and released a successful album, Love Wars produced by Stewart Levine on Elektra Records. The first single from the album, "T.K.O.", reached the Billboard R&B; chart; the next single, "Love Wars", reached no.14 on the UK singles chart in early 1984, and the third single from the album, "Baby I'm Scared Of You", was successful in both the US (no. 25, R&B; chart)...
Always a proponent of new technology, Jac Holzman has been at the helm of a great label throughout turbulent times. Holzman told us the music businesses has undergone more fundamental change than any other facet of entertainment over the past hundred years or so. We talked about everything from player pianos to vinyl singles to music blogs to YouTube. http://www.mashable.com LIKE us on FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/mashable.video FOLLOW us on TWITTER: http://twitter.com/mashablevideo FOLLOW us on TUMBLR: http://mashable.tumblr.com FOLLOW our INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/mashable JOIN our circle on GOOGLE PLUS: http://plus.google.com/+Mashable Subscribe!: http://bit.ly/1ko5eNd Mashable is the leading independent news site for all things tech, social media, and internet culture. http://w...
Beyoncé Singing With her music group Destiny's Child at the Elektra Records Audicion
© 2011 WMG Atlantic/Elektra Records are proud to announce the release of "The Love EP", a 5-song compilation to celebrate Valentine's Day! The collection includes music from Bruno Mars, Tank, Cee Lo Green, Musiq Soulchild and Trey Songz! Purchase "The Love EP" for only $3.99 here: http://theloveep.com/
A brief overview of the Elektra 4000 series. Some of the great artists in this series include Love, The Doors, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Tim Buckley, Judy Collins, Clear Light, MC5, Incredible String Band, Tom Rush, Atomic Rooster, and Rhinoceros among others. Glass Orchid Mag available here http://glassorchidmag.blogspot.com/
Trussel was a College based group from Virginia State College with lead vocalist Larry Tynes. Later when the group signed with Elektra they added a second lead vocalist Michael Spratley. In 1973 the group formed in the Snack Shop of Virginia State and were locally known as the Snack Shop Band. One day near VSC there was a train trestle, the drummer and co-founder Ron Buky Smith spoke with a lisp and said let's name the group TRUSSEL hence the spelling and pronounciation. The group then formed a record label in 1975. Under Bridge The Gap Records, they released two singles in 1976. "The Bi-Centennial Boogie" and "How Many Tricks". The next two release were "Beautiful People" and "Spread Love Everywhere". Both were well recorded and poorly promoted. The groups break came when a college friend...
Shakecraft feat. Elektra - Patchy is OUT NOW on Spinnin' Deep! Like this track? Download on Beatport or add it to your favourite Spotify/Apple Music playlist by clicking HERE: https://shakecraft.lnk.to/PatchyFtElektra!YT Join our Spinnin' Records Top 100 Playlist ► https://spinninrecords.lnk.to/top100!YT Shakecraft does is again! Delivering a rambling record that is destined to bring the groove and touch your dancing nerves. It floods with deep elements and funky basslines that fuse perfectly with the authentic vocals from Elektra. Patchy is here to shake things up! Follow Shakecraft: https://www.facebook.com/Shakecraftmusic/ https://twitter.com/Shakecraftmuzic https://www.instagram.com/shakecraftmusic/
Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman unveils his label retrospective boxset, Forever Changing, created by Rhino UK. Visit http://www.rhino.co.uk/elektra for more information and to order
The hit from the British rockers. Put it on 1080p for the highest quality! Audio recorded with Audacity. Video shot with HTC Thunderbolt and edited with Windows Live Movie Maker. My Copyright Disclaimer: Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
Womack & Womack was the singing and songwriting partnership of American musicians Cecil Womack and his wife, Linda Womack. The duo were successful as songwriters for other artists, and had several international hits as a singing duo in the 1980s and 1990s. Later recordings, with other members of their family, were credited to The House of Zekkariyas. In 1983, Cecil and Linda began performing and recording together as Womack & Womack, and released a successful album, Love Wars produced by Stewart Levine on Elektra Records. The first single from the album, "T.K.O.", reached the Billboard R&B; chart; the next single, "Love Wars", reached no.14 on the UK singles chart in early 1984, and the third single from the album, "Baby I'm Scared Of You", was successful in both the US (no. 25, R&B; chart)...
Always a proponent of new technology, Jac Holzman has been at the helm of a great label throughout turbulent times. Holzman told us the music businesses has undergone more fundamental change than any other facet of entertainment over the past hundred years or so. We talked about everything from player pianos to vinyl singles to music blogs to YouTube. http://www.mashable.com LIKE us on FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/mashable.video FOLLOW us on TWITTER: http://twitter.com/mashablevideo FOLLOW us on TUMBLR: http://mashable.tumblr.com FOLLOW our INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/mashable JOIN our circle on GOOGLE PLUS: http://plus.google.com/+Mashable Subscribe!: http://bit.ly/1ko5eNd Mashable is the leading independent news site for all things tech, social media, and internet culture. http://w...
Beyoncé Singing With her music group Destiny's Child at the Elektra Records Audicion
© 2011 WMG Atlantic/Elektra Records are proud to announce the release of "The Love EP", a 5-song compilation to celebrate Valentine's Day! The collection includes music from Bruno Mars, Tank, Cee Lo Green, Musiq Soulchild and Trey Songz! Purchase "The Love EP" for only $3.99 here: http://theloveep.com/
A brief overview of the Elektra 4000 series. Some of the great artists in this series include Love, The Doors, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Tim Buckley, Judy Collins, Clear Light, MC5, Incredible String Band, Tom Rush, Atomic Rooster, and Rhinoceros among others. Glass Orchid Mag available here http://glassorchidmag.blogspot.com/
Trussel was a College based group from Virginia State College with lead vocalist Larry Tynes. Later when the group signed with Elektra they added a second lead vocalist Michael Spratley. In 1973 the group formed in the Snack Shop of Virginia State and were locally known as the Snack Shop Band. One day near VSC there was a train trestle, the drummer and co-founder Ron Buky Smith spoke with a lisp and said let's name the group TRUSSEL hence the spelling and pronounciation. The group then formed a record label in 1975. Under Bridge The Gap Records, they released two singles in 1976. "The Bi-Centennial Boogie" and "How Many Tricks". The next two release were "Beautiful People" and "Spread Love Everywhere". Both were well recorded and poorly promoted. The groups break came when a college friend...
Shakecraft feat. Elektra - Patchy is OUT NOW on Spinnin' Deep! Like this track? Download on Beatport or add it to your favourite Spotify/Apple Music playlist by clicking HERE: https://shakecraft.lnk.to/PatchyFtElektra!YT Join our Spinnin' Records Top 100 Playlist ► https://spinninrecords.lnk.to/top100!YT Shakecraft does is again! Delivering a rambling record that is destined to bring the groove and touch your dancing nerves. It floods with deep elements and funky basslines that fuse perfectly with the authentic vocals from Elektra. Patchy is here to shake things up! Follow Shakecraft: https://www.facebook.com/Shakecraftmusic/ https://twitter.com/Shakecraftmuzic https://www.instagram.com/shakecraftmusic/
METALLICA Album:The Black Album Publicacion:13 de Agosto de 1991 Genero:Heavy Metal Duracion:01:02:37 Discografíca:Elektra Records
All rights and credits belong to Elektra Records and Rhino Entertainment/Warner Music Group. Official websites: http://www.elektra.com http://www.rhino.com http://www.wmg.com The Best of Bread is a multi-platinum compilation album by the band Bread released in 1973 by Elektra Records. Later re-issues have additional tracks including several from 1974's The Best of Bread, Volume 2. 00:00 Make It with You 03:11 Everything I Own 06:20 Diary 09:28 Baby I'm A Want You 11:56 It Don't Matter To Me 14:45 If 17:20 Mother Freedom 19:55 Down On My Knees 22:39 Too Much Love 25:27 Let Your Love Go 27:50 Look What You've Done 31:02 Truckin' 33:34 The Guitar Man 37:20 Aubrey 40:59 The Last Time...
© 1981 Leathür Records/Elektra Records/Mötley Records ("Show More" for track listing, details) Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. 1. "Live Wire" - 0:00 2. "Public Enemy #1" - 3:16 3. "Take Me To The Top" - 7:38 4. "Merry-Go-Round" - 11:22 5. "Piece Of Your Action" - 14:41 6. "Starry Eyes" - 19:21 7. "Stick To Your Guns" - 23:50 8. "Come On And Dance" - 28:10 9. "Too Fast For Love" - 31:21 10. "On With The Show" - 35:35 11. "Toast Of The Town" - 39:36 (Bonus T...
METALLICA Album:And Justice For All Publicacion:25 de agosto de 1988 Genero:Thrash Metal, Thrash Metal Progresivo Duracion:01:05:36 Discográfica:Elektra Records Vertigo Records
Grover Washington, Jr "Full Album" Winelight Elektra Records Winelight is a 1980 album by jazz musician Grover Washington, Jr. It received the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance in 1982. The album was released by Elektra Records. It includes the Grammy Award-winning[2] hit "Just the Two of Us" sung by Bill Withers. The track "In the Name of Love" from the album was also released in rearranged form, without Washington's saxophone track, under the name of Ralph MacDonald and Bill Withers (on vocals). Track listing 1. "Winelight" (William Eaton) - 7:32 2. "Let It Flow (For "Dr. J")" (Grover Washington, Jr.) - 5:52 3. "In the Name of Love" (William Salter/Ralph MacDonald) - 5:26 4. "Take Me There" (Washington) - 6:16 5. "Just the Two of Us" (Bill Withers/Salter/MacDonald) - 7:23 6...
A suite with the best themes from "The Last Samurai" soundtrack. The score was composed by Hans Zimmer and produced by Edward Zwick and Danny Bramson. Label : Elektra Records "The Last Samurai" is a epic war film directed by Edward Zwick. Studio: Radar Pictures; Bedford Falls Company; Cruise/Wagner Picture: Warner Bros. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, 2003. Do you want more film music? Click right here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbxzxQs7nvxm80vHJ7s3pmczwF7k94vLv
METALLICA Album:Ride The Lightning Publicacion:27 de Julio de 1984 Genero:Thrash Metal Duracion:00:47:04 Discográfica:Megaforce Records, Elektra Records. Lista: 00:00-Fight Fire With Fire 4:40-Ride The Lightning 11:17-For Whom The Bell Tolls 16:19-Fade To Black 23:08-Trapped Under Ice 27:13-Escape 31:37-Creeping Death 38:14-The Call Of Ktulu
Eclection were a British-based folk rock band, originally formed in 1967 in London by Norwegian-born Georg Kajanus (then known as Georg Hultgreen), Canadian Michael Rosen, Australians Trevor Lucas and Kerrilee Male, and Briton Gerry Conway. They released one album on Elektra Records before singer Kerrilee Male left to be replaced by Dorris Henderson, but the group broke up in December 1969. One of the few British acts on the Elektra roster during that era, their sole album (Eclection, 1968) sounded unusually Californian for a British group of the period. While at their core they were melodic, slightly bittersweet folk-rock, the production - by Ossie Byrne (who also worked with the early Bee Gees) - was overlaid with frequent soaring light orchestration reminiscent of that heard on numerou...
I got this one sealed and this is the first time ever played. Enjoy :) Title: Dream Into Action Artist: Howard Jones Label: Elektra Records Year: 1985 Tracklist 1. Things Can Only Get Better 00:00 2. Life In One Day 03:58 3. No-One Is To Blame 07:35 4. Dream Into Action 11:00 5. Like To Get To Know You Well 14:42 6. Assault & Battery 18:38 7. Look Mama 23:24 8. Bounce Right Back 27:13 9. Elegy 31:06 10. Is There A Difference? 35:23 11. Automaton 38:52 12. Hunger For The Flesh 42:53 Here is my setup Sanyo TP 266 Turntable Sanyo JA 667 system