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5 unusual facts about ABC Records


Galahs in the Gidgee

Produced by John Kane for the ABC Records label, the album is considered Buchanan's breakthrough album, earning him several Australian Country Music Award nominations and his first winning award for New Talent of the Year for the album.

Marshall Blonstein

He has also held positions at Island, Ode, ABC and Epic Records, and been associated with some of the most prominent artists in popular music.

Movin' in the Right Direction

Movin' in the Right Direction is the debut album by Stephanie Mills released in 1975 on the ABC Records label.

Ringo's Rotogravure

It was reported in December 1975 that ABC Records in the US was to sign former-Beatle Ringo Starr for a 5-year recording contract, worth $5 million.

Walter Kahn

His early music productions include "Loves Me Like A Rock", written by Paul Simon, performed by The Dixie Hummingbirds, and released on ABC Records.


Ballads of Love

This collection contains five songs that Vinton recorded for ABC Records ("Feelings," "Paloma Blanca," "Beer Barrel Polka," "You'll Never Know," and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"), one for Tapestry Records ("To All the Girls I've Loved Before"), two for Epic Records ("And I Love You So" and "Because of You"), one for Ahed Records ("Medley").

Bob Thiele

According to Thiele's memoir, the recording session for this now-famous song was the scene of a major clash with ABC Records president Larry Newton, who had to be locked out of the studio after getting into a heated argument with Thiele over the song.

Bubble Puppy

The group signed to ABC-Dunhill Records and released one self-titled album in 1971, but its failure to perform on the charts led to financial difficulties with the label and the group's breakup in 1972.

Don Costa

He agreed, and thus began an association that led to their joining a new record label being headed by Sam Clark as president: ABC-Paramount Records.

Graham Nash David Crosby

The commercial success of this album equaled, if not surpassed a bit, that of the pair's two solo albums of the previous year, although it would not be until after the second break-up of CSNY following their 1974 tour that Crosby and Nash would sign an album contract as a unit with ABC Records.

Masterjam

For their first album with MCA Records, which had absorbed ABC Records a year before, the group enlisted Quincy Jones to help them with the record (Khan had recorded with Jones the year before for his album Sounds...and Stuff Like That!!).

Oscar Pettiford

He recorded extensively during the 1950s for the Debut, Bethlehem and ABC Paramount labels among others, and for European companies after he moved to Copenhagen in 1958.

Shirley Collie Nelson

She settled in Corpus Christi and performed locally until the fall of 1955, when the redhead was offered a regular role on ABC-TV’s Ozark Jubilee in Springfield, Missouri and signed a recording contract with ABC-Paramount.

The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other

The first U.S. issue of the album was released by the Probe Records division of ABC Records also in 1970.

Two Against Nature

They intended to release Gaucho on Warner Bros. after their longtime label ABC Records merged with MCA Records, but MCA claimed ownership of the master recordings.


see also

Command performance

Command Performance Records, record label which later merged with ABC Records.