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5 unusual facts about A&M Records


Barney Bentall and the Legendary Hearts

This record was followed by "Not Guilty", a 5-track EP released in 1980 on A&M Records, that had modest success in Western Canada.

Flesh Caffeine

Flesh Caffeine is notable for being the final piece of music to be mastered at A&M studios in Hollywood, California.

Let the Season Take Wing

Though the song was released as a single, A&M Records did not turn much attention to promoting the song, as it was a Target exclusive.

It is not clear whether EMI now owns "Let the Season Take Wing" or whether the song remains the property of either A&M Records or Amy Grant herself.

Supreme Beings of Leisure

After these Moonshine releases, Oversoul 7 signed a demo deal with A&M Records, recording "Truth From Fiction", "Never the Same", and "Last Girl on Earth", all of which ended up on the band's self-titled debut album, released on the Palm Pictures label.


An Evening with Groucho

Introduced by Dick Cavett, the show was broadcast on the radio and released as a double album by A&M Records.

Baja Marimba Band

Wechter soon composed the popular song "Spanish Flea" for Alpert, who encouraged him to form his own group for A&M Records.

Be Not Nobody

Be Not Nobody is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton, released in 2002 on A&M Records.

Best of Joan C. Baez

The Best of Joan C. Baez was a Joan Baez compilation that A&M put together after Baez had left the label in 1977.

Big Choice

The original version of the album was released on Victory Music and re-released on A&M Records in 1995.

Carnival Records

In 1961, Jerry Moss and Herb Alpert, set up a short-lived label, the precursor of their A&M Records.

Cold Blue Excursion

The title track, backed with I Need It, was issued as a single, and Time Is Now had been covered as a single by contemporary group Jericho Jones on the A&M label the previous year.

Cypress Records

Cypress Records is a record label which was distributed by A&M Records between 1988 and 1990.

Deadly Venoms

A legal dispute with A&M/PolyGram Records and the then-forthcoming merger between the MCA and PolyGram families of labels that formed the Universal Music Group forced its debut album, Deadly Venoms: The Antidote, to remain in its vaults, although the single “One More to Go” (featuring Inspectah Deck, Method Man, Cappadonna, Street Life, and GZA) b/w “Bomb Threat,” was released and the album was later leaked.

Dolores Erickson

Alpert and Jerry Moss, his business partner in A&M records, were originally not impressed with the sketches of the cover but they agreed to it.

Don't Turn Away

Their then-label A&M Records wanted the band to re-record it, because no one could "hear a single" until the L.A. radio station KROQ first played it.

Gil Friesen

Gil Friesen (March 19, 1937 – December 13, 2012) was an American music and film executive known for becoming chairman of A&M Records in 1977 to 1990 after he sold it for $500 million, co-founder of the Classic Sports Cable Network and executive of The Breakfast Club in 1985.

Herb Ohta

Herb Ohta aka Ohta-San is an American Ukulele player born in 1934 in Hawaii who has recorded solo, as a group and with Andre Popp on the A&M Records label, which was co-owned by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss.

I Disappear

The discovery of an unfinished version of the song in early 2000 on the peer-to-peer file sharing network Napster helped bring the illegal sharing of mp3 files to the spotlight, leading to the lawsuits that eventually brought down the original incarnation of Napster.

I Had to Fall in Love

I Had to Fall in Love was the only solo album released by former Supremes lead singer Jean Terrell, released in 1978 on the A&M label.

I'm Not Over You

"I'm Not Over You" is a 1994 song by the musician CeCe Peniston, originally recorded for her album Thought 'Ya Knew on A&M Records.

Jah Paul Jo

While recording demos for A&M Records as part of a songwriting publishing deal, Jo, along with Carl Jah, Curt Lichter (Cheese) and Gary Putman recorded two demos, "Memphis Of The Mind" and "Earshot" that laid the groundwork for what would soon become Dread Zeppelin.

King Harvest

With support from Beach Boys members Carl Wilson and Mike Love, they were signed to A&M Records and made another album, but, failing to achieve any hits, they subsequently broke up.

Lucille Starr

At A&M Records in Los Angeles, California, Starr recorded a song called "The French Song" that was produced by Herb Alpert.

Music Through a Cheap Transistor

(Aside from the first John Peel Session, the band were on A&M Records when all the featured sessions were recorded, but A&M have since been taken over by Universal Music Group; hence this release.)

NeoPlanet

Throughout 2000, NeoPlanet garnered partnerships to market and distribute branded browsers with major companies in the entertainment, computer manufacturing and sports arenas, including Universal Studios, Interscope/Geffen/A&M Records, USA Networks, MTV, Lord of the Rings, TV Guide, Hewlett Packard, Carolina Hurricanes and Phoenix Coyotes.

Perspective Records

Perspective Records was an American record label, launched in 1991 by the producing team Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, through a joint venture with A&M Records—which Jam/Lewis had had a prosperous working relationship with throughout the 1980s, with several of its major acts including Janet Jackson, The Human League, and label founder Herb Alpert.

Spanish Album

Spanish Album was an LP album consisting of tracks assembled from previous albums by The Sandpipers, released by A&M Records in 1969.

Video game producer

His vision—influenced by his relationship with Jerry Moss—was that producers would manage artists and repertoire in the same way as in the music business, and Hawkins brought in record producers from A&M Records to help train those first producers.

Wooden Nickel Records

Wooden Nickel ceased operations after its top act, Styx, signed with A&M Records in 1975.


see also

Haeco-CSG

Atlantic Records took out a full page advertisement in the April 6, 1968 issue of Billboard Magazine to promote its adoption of the technique, calling it "CSG Stereo." Many A&M Records LP releases during the period including popular titles by Sérgio Mendes and Herb Alpert were released with this audio process starting in September 1968.

Mike and Michelle Jackson

They had two North American releases, Bunyips, Bunnies and Brumbies and Playmates, which were released in Canada on Sharon, Lois and Bram's Elephant Records label, distributed by A&M Records.

Mr. Roboto

The track was released as the first single from the album at the last minute instead of "Don't Let It End" at the request of A&M Records.

Pretty Mary Sunshine

The only song from the ill-fated "Oklahoma sessions" that A&M Records released, was "Can I Stay?" (featured in the cult movie soundtrack of S.F.W.).

The Broken Bones

It was released under A&M records in 2000 before the release of the album "The Ever Passing Moment."