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Church of Anthrax

The record was released in February 1971 by Cale's record company, Columbia Records, nearly a year after the material was recorded; in fact it was recorded prior to Cale's solo debut Vintage Violence.

Lucky Four Records

Lucky Four Records was a Chicago, Illinois based record company, located at 5411 W. Diversey Avenue, that existed from 1960 to 1963.

Protagonistas

The game format is pretty similar to Big Brother or Operación Triunfo (Star Academy) where a group of anonymous people compete in an isolated house to win a contract with a record company or the TV channel.

Silence Records

Silence (Silence Records AB), is a Swedish record company located outside Koppom, Värmland in Sweden.

The Sexual Life of the Savages

The Sexual Life of the Savages (subtitled Underground Post-Punk from São Paulo, Brazil) is a compilation album produced by Bruno Verner and Eliete Mejorado (the components of alternative music duo Tetine), and released in 2005 by British record company Soul Jazz Records.

This Tangled Web / Times Square

This Tangled Web / Times Square is a single by Human Drama released by Triple X in 1991.


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Alan Caddy

"Shakin' All Over" was originally the B-side to a revival of "Yes Sir, That's My Baby", but the record company flipped the 45 and the new topside went all the way to number 1 in the UK charts.

Albert Bennett

Al Bennett (Alvin S. Bennett, 1926–1989), American record company executive

Alexandre Sap

In 1997 he started his own independent record company Recall Group signing many Artists including The Servant, Jehro, Thomas Dydahl, Grand National, Mylo, Robots in Disguise, Fires Of Rome and Dan Black.

Ash International

Ash International is a British record company and audio-visual organisation started in 1993 by Mike Harding and Robin Rimbaud.

Bob Kohn

He serves as Chairman of Laugh.com, a comedy record company he founded with comedian George Carlin.

Bobby Kimball

Bobby Kimball was nearly asked by the band to return to Toto during 1989-1990 to record songs for the band's greatest hits album, Past to Present 1977-1990, only to be replaced by singer Jean-Michel Byron (a decision said to have derived from Sony, the band's record company at the time).

Border Breakers

Border Breakers is a Danish record company.

Captain Beyond

The record company's chosen producer, Giorgio Gomelsky, did not like Glascock's drumming and requested a new drummer.

Carina Dahl

Dahl lived in Sweden for five years, where she worked with the record company TMC Entertainment, and in 2010 she released her first album Hot Child.

CBS Records

Sony Music Entertainment, formerly known as CBS Records, Inc., a global record company

Chaim Shemesh

In 2002 Shemesh joined the leading record company ‘NMC’ as a content VP, where he managed the company’s marketing and public relations and developed new business modules to the music industry (on-line music downloading web sites, artist management systems, etc.).

Cheap Thrills

The cover was drawn by underground cartoonist Robert Crumb after the band's original cover idea, a picture of the group naked in bed together, was dropped by the record company.

Chris Grabiec

In 2009, Grabiec was introduced to producer and record company director Nathaniel "NJC" Clarkson of independent label Ambiel Music.

Ferenc László

He played a major role in the development of a Hungarian program with Electrecord, the Romanian state record company.

Fractured Transmitter Recording Company

Fractured Transmitter is a record company started by Jason Popson around the time he departed from Mushroomhead in 2004.

Grupo RBS

Grupo RBS has yet other branches of operation: HSM (executive education, media and events company) – Digital Product Development unit – Kzuka (aimed at young audiences) – Events – RBS Publicações (book publishing) – Orbeat Music (record company) – Mídia Gráfica (printing) – Vialog (logistics company) – Fundação Maurício Sirotsky Sobrinho (social trust).

Herbert Cohen

Herb Cohen (1932–2010), American music manager and record company executive

Hertford, North Carolina

Disc jockey Wolfman Jack is buried in Hertford and the record company he started is still located there.

Imperial Recordings

Imperial Recordings is a Swedish record company, which notably have José González and Melpo Mene signed.

Irish Hospitals' Sweepstake

In the 1981 episode of WKRP in Cincinnati titled Out To Lunch, Johnny and Venus hand out Irish Sweepstakes tickets to the employees of the station as gifts from a record company rep.

J. B. Long

James Baxter Long, Sr. (December 25, 1903 – February 25, 1975) was an American store manager, owner, and record company talent scout, responsible in the 1930s for discovering Fulton Allen ("Blind Boy Fuller") and Gary Davis, among other notable blues musicians.

Jack Kapp

Jack Kapp (June 15, 1901 – March 25, 1949) was a record company executive with Brunswick Records who founded the American Decca Records in 1934 along with British Decca founder Edward Lewis and later American Decca head Milton Rackmil.

Joiner, Arkansas

Joiner was the birthplace of record company executive Al Bennett, for whom the character Alvin of Alvin and the Chipmunks was named.

Leather Nun

While releasing their third album Nun Permanent (produced by Mick Ronson) in winter 1991 their record company went bankrupt and could no longer deliver copies of the album.

Lene Alexandra

After years of working at the record company, she began her musical career in 2007 at age 25 and released her first single entitled "My Boobs Are OK".

Living EP

The Living EP is the first EP from The band Josephine Collective on the Warner Bros. record company.

Marc Riley

He then formed a band including ex-members of Pere Ubu and Captain Beefheart's Magic Band called The Lost Soul Crusaders (named after a fictional group in an episode of the detective series Columbo whose lead singer was played by one of Riley's heroes, Johnny Cash), but the record company funding the band went bust before any material could be recorded.

Masshysteri

According to Dennis Lyxzén (their record company manager), it was trouble in the band that got them to stop playing.

Michael Gudinski

Gudinski is mostly known for forming the highly successful Australian record company Mushroom Records in 1972 through whom he signed several generations of Australian musicians and performers ranging from MacKenzie Theory, the Skyhooks, The Choirboys, Kylie Minogue, and New Zealand's Split Enz to newer artists such as Eskimo Joe, Evermore and others forging a string of successful releases by local talent.

Michael Ninn

Soon afterwards, he directed music videos for the record company Capitol Records before moving to the West Coast of the United States to pursue TV and film.

Minos EMI

In 1991, EMIAL purchased a controlling share of Minos Matsas & Son, a record company founded by pioneering Greek music industry executive and prominent rebetiko musician Minos Matsas, in 1927, and which also edited music under the label Odeon and which produced, since then, records under the Minos label.

Motown and Didi

He is Didi's lover, a loner, and named after the record company, Motown.

Neither Fish Nor Flesh

On the album commentary on his website, D'Arby (now known as Sananda Maitreya) claimed that the album's lack of commercial impact was due to his record company's "wholesale rejection of it" as well being hindered by German record producer Frank Farian who decided to release an album of his performances with funk band The Touch (from 1984) in Germany just weeks before Neither Fish Nor Flesh was due for release.

Orfeon Records

The first record company in Turkey, it was founded by the Blumenthal Family in 1912.

Pat Jabbar

In 1988, the first CD "El Buya" by Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects was published on Barraka E.F. In 1992, he sent the CD to Bill Laswell, who wanted to work with Pat Jabbar and also helped him establish his record company.

Paul Mauriat

In 1994, he signed with Japanese record company Pony Canyon, where he re-recorded some of his greatest hits and wrote new compositions.

Ritchie Cordell

With Sal Trimachi, Cordell co-wrote their follow-up record, "Say I Am (What I Am)"; as on many of the group's Roulette recordings, the writing credit was shared with record company boss Morris Levy.

Rock Ignition

The band released their 2nd EP "Innocent Thing" on May 17, 2013 through the record company Sound Guerilla/DA Music, produced by bassist Jürgen Steinmetz and mixed by Dennis Ward (Pink Cream 69, Unisonic).

Roll 'Em Pete

While in New York, Turner and Johnson signed with the Vocalion record company, recording the 12-bar blues "Roll 'Em Pete" on December 30, 1938.

Scott Ritcher

He is the former proprietor of the Slamdek Record Company which released early recordings by influential punk and indie rock bands including Endpoint, Rodan, Jawbox, and Ritcher's own bands Sunspring and the Metroschifter.

See It Through My Eyes

It was released in 1997 by the record company in an attempt to capitalize on her newfound success after the album Blurring the Edges.

Shi Xin Hui

She was also hailed as Singapore's version of popular and sexy Japanese singer, Kumi Koda by her record company.

Sonora Carruseles

Sonora Carruseles was grouped in the Colombian city of Medellin in 1995.They originally started as an experiment for Mario Rincón "Pachanga", who was musical director at Colombian based record company, Discos Fuentes.

Sparta, Michigan

In the early to late 1960s, Sparta was home to Fenton Records, an independent record company and recording studio.

Squirrel Records

Squirrel Records is a UK-based record company based in Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, founded in 1994 by Simon Squirelle, former manager of 90's artists Candyman, The U-Krew, and the Funhouse presenter Pat Sharp.

The Davis Sisters

Several sides were recorded for Ozzie Cadena's start-up label Choice Records in New Jersey after he, too, left Savoy Record Company.

WEA Manufacturing

WEA Manufacturing Inc. was created in 1978–1979 when Warner Communications Inc. (WCI) purchased two of its longtime suppliers: the record pressing plants Specialty Records Corporation (Olyphant, Pennsylvania) and Allied Record Company (Los Angeles).

Yorico

She has been working for the record company EMI Music Japan, record labels Virgin Music, Pure Music and Watanabe Entertainment before turning independent in 2013.