Arista Records then signed The Alan Parsons Project for further albums.

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1977 saw a brief liaison with Arista Records that yielded the Prime Time album and, in October 1978, the single " It Doesn ’ t Matter Anymore ".

On October 5, 2007, Thomas was ordered to pay the six record companies ( Sony BMG, Arista Records LLC, Interscope Records, UMG Recordings Inc., Capitol Records Inc. and Warner Bros. Records Inc .) $ 9, 250 for each of the 24 songs they had focused on in this case.

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Category: Arista Records artists

" After RCA acquired Arista Records, Austin's publishing company, Reynsong Publishing, formed Wrensong Entertainment and signed to Madacy Entertainment for her next album, Followin ' a Feelin ', which produced another single in its lead-off single, a cover of Dolly Parton's " Jolene ".

* Arista Records re-released singer Whitney Houston's recording of " The Star Spangled Banner " as a charity single following the attacks, with all profits going towards the firefighters and victims of the attacks.

Following 9 / 11, the single was re-released by Arista Records, peaking at number 6 on the Hot 100 and was certified platinum by the RIAA.

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The LP, issued by Arista ( a subsidiary of Screen Gems ), was actually a repackaging of a 1972 compilation LP called Refocus that had been issued by Arista's previous label imprint, Bell Records, also owned by Screen Gems.

After listening thru the tracks Arista Records refused to release the album as it felt the initial mixes were weak.

Initially scheduled for release on a date to coincide with the tenth anniversary of her father's death, Arista Records decided to delay, then cancel the American release.

After numerous talks with Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight, Lopes severed her solo deal with Arista ( despite remaining signed to the label as a member of TLC ) and signed with Knight's Tha Row Records, intending to record a second solo album under the pseudonym " N. I. N. A.

In addition to these solo projects, George delivered guitar work for Steve Arrington's album Dancing In The Key Of Life ( 1985 ) and had ad-libbed vocals on the track " Think Back And Remember " from the Galaxian album by the Jeff Lorber Fusion, released in 1981 on Arista Records.

In 1994, he began releasing new albums at a faster pace to remove himself from contractual obligations to Warner Bros, releasing five records in a span of two years before signing to Arista Records in 1998.

In 1999, Prince once again signed with a major label, Arista Records, to release a new record, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic.

They released their only album, KBC Band ( which included Kantner's hit, " America "), in 1987 on Arista Records.

In December 2005, he also released What I Really Want for Christmas for Arista Records.

The group would later record for Bell / Arista Records, ABC Records, and Motown Records.

He was the founder and president of Arista Records from 1975 through 2000 until founding J Records.

From 2002 until April 2008, Davis was the Chairman and CEO of the RCA Music Group ( which included RCA Records, J Records and Arista Records ), Chairman and CEO of J Records, and Chairman and CEO of BMG North America.

Davis left Arista in 2000 and started J Records, an independent label with financial backing from Arista parent Bertelsmann Music Group.

On October 7, RCA Music Group announced that it was disbanding J Records, Arista Records, and Jive Records.

Politicians that have graduated from Penn Law include Joseph Sill Clark ( Mayor of Philadelphia, and U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania ), Charles Robert Miller ( Governor of Delaware ), Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. ( former Chairman CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and U. S. Ambassador to Sweden ), Raul Roco ( former presidential candidate and Secretary of Education in the Philippines ), Oscar Goodman ( Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada ), Harry Arista Mackey ( Mayor of Philadelphia ), Martin J. Silverstein ( U. S. Ambassador to Uruguay ) and Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky ( member of the U. S. House of Representatives and women's rights activist ).

Early in the decade the label became part of the RCA Music Group which also included Arista Records and J Records.

RCA Records was restructured in 2011 and took in artists from Arista and J Records and multiple artists from Jive Records, as those labels closed down.

In October 2011, the RCA Music Group shut down J Records, Jive Records and Arista Records.

19 originally partnered with Bertelsmann Music Group ( BMG ) to promote and distribute the recordings through its labels RCA Records, Arista Records, J Records, Jive Records.

Arista, always an independently managed label at BMG, was merged with J Records in August 2005 and began operating under the newly formed RCA Music Group — of which Davis had become CEO, and thus again became in control of Arista.

During the summer of 2011, the RCA Music Group underwent a restructuring which saw the elimination of the Arista name later on that year, along with sister labels Jive and J. RCA Records will now start releasing all RCA Music Group releases under RCA Records.

On October 7, RCA Music Group announced it was disbanding J Records along with Arista Records and Jive Records.

On October 7, 2011, it was announced that Jive, along with Arista and J Records would be shut down.

In 1977, Shelter transferred distribution to Arista ( principally for the Dwight Twilley Band ), but the rights to Tom Petty and J. J. Cale were retained by ABC.

The RCA Music Group closed down Arista, J Records and Jive Records in October 2011, with the artists from those labels being moved to RCA Records.

J Records was founded in 2000 by industry veteran Clive Davis with $ 150 million in financing from BMG, after his ousting from Arista Records the same year, and initially operated as an independently managed company distributed through BMG.

In August 2005, J Records ' operations were merged with Arista Records, although both labels continued to release their own product.

During the summer of 2011, RCA Music Group underwent a restructuring which shuttered J along with sister labels Jive and Arista on October 7, 2011.

In August 2005, Vazquez signed with J Records / Arista Records and worked on an album executive produced by Clive Davis.

On October 7, RCA Music Group announced it was disbanding J Records along with Arista Records and Jive Records.

Inspired by a visit to Japan, Black & More ( Coldcut ) primarily created Ninja Tune in 1990 to act as a vehicle by which they could release music of a more underground nature, free from the restraints placed on artists by major labels ( the same restraints that were put on them via their brief stints with Arista and Big Life ).

Her second and final album for Arista was 1999's Love in the Real World, led off by the No. 29 " Never Been Kissed ", which was followed by " Little Bird.

Arista suggested that the " Yes-West " group, with Anderson on vocals, record the four songs to add to the new album which would then be released under the Yes name.

In 1985, music success continued with the Arista release of the single The Last Kiss (# 6 in the UK ), with backing vocals by George Michael, which was included on the album Romance.

Once again, the record was rejected by Arista, after which Q-Tip left the label.

They are most noted for composing the theme tune to the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and for their 1997 single " Van Halen ", a tribute to the band of the same name, which attracted significant radio airplay and led to their first major record deal with Arista Records.

After taking time out to write his memoirs, he founded the company Arista Records ( named after New York City's secondary school honor society of which he was a member ).

He founded Arista Nashville which became the home to Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn, Pam Tillis and Brad Paisley.

Her second Arista album, 1980's No Night So Long sold 500, 000 U. S. copies and featured the title track which became a major success-hitting # 1 Adult Contemporary and # 23 on Billboard's Hot 100-and the album peaked at # 23 on the Billboard Albums Chart.

In 2006, Warwick signed with Concord Records after a fifteen-year tenure at Arista, which had ended in 1994.

While Arista were disappointed with this failure, the band themselves had rapidly become dissatisfied with the album, which they considered too derivative.

Her first album for Arista, Coming Around Again ( 1987 ), gave Simon another international hit with the title track ( which was featured in the film Heartburn ), returning her to the Billboard Pop Top 20 and the U. K. Top 10 ( It also garnered her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance ).

The label was named Arista after New York City's secondary school honor society ( of which Davis was a member at Erasmus Hall High School ).

Arista had an imprint label in the 1970s called Arista Novus, which focused on contemporary jazz artists.

It distributed two other jazz labels, " Arista Freedom ," which specialized in avant-garde jazz and, until 1982, GRP Records, which specialized in contemporary jazz and what came to be known as smooth jazz.

In 1989, Arista entered into a joint venture with Antonio " L. A ." Reid and Babyface in the creation of LaFace Records record company of TLC, which it fully acquired in 1999.

In 1989, Arista signed a German-based duo named Milli Vanilli, consisting of Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan, and released its wildly successful multi-platinum debut album ( which had been previously released in Europe the year before ), Girl You Know It's True, the same year in the U. S. and Canada.