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.

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.

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.

When the Kinks changed record labels from RCA to Arista in 1976, Davies abandoned his then-recent propensity for ambitious, theatrical concept albums and rock operas — the RCA era ( 1971 – 75 ) had produced Muswell Hillbillies, Everybody's in Show-Biz, Preservation Act 1 and Act 2, Soap Opera and Schoolboys in Disgrace — and returned to writing more basic, straightforward songs.

The ICB Report rejected “ narrow banking ” in part because it would lead to more credit ( and all credit during times of stress ) being provided by a “ less regulated sector .” In 1993 Jane D ’ Arista and Tom Schlesinger noted that the “ parallel banking system ” had grown because it did not incur the regulatory costs of commercial banks.

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

TLC's contract was renegotiated, their production deal with Pebbitone and Perri Reid ( who had separated from her husband by this time ) was rescinded, and the group appeared on the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack with " This Is How It Works " ( a song written by Babyface and Lopes ) and was set to re-enter the recording studio in 1997 after signing a new contract with LaFace / Arista.

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

Despite the band's new-found popularity in the UK and Europe, Simple Minds remained essentially unknown in the U. S. The band's UK releases on Arista were not picked up by Arista USA who had ' right of first refusal ' for their releases.

Just a few months later, Secret Affair had signed to Arista Records and formed its own label, I-Spy Records and " Time For Action " was in the chart.

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.

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.

Arista had been having trouble pushing rock acts in the US, and Clive Davis had hoped that with Zomba's Mutt Lange connection, the newly formed Jive would fill that role.

The second version was produced by Arista Records and had both a different shade of orange shirt and a different version of track 4 " Easy Mark ", recorded with a completely alternate tempo and lyrics altered due to their similarity with the song " Don't Stop Believin '" by Journey.

Eventually, however, Clive Davis, founder of Arista Records, thought otherwise, and by the end of 1993 " All That She Wants " had made its way to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

After the death of Bob Marley, Island Records began looking for another third world artist to put on its contract, while Fela Kuti had just been signed by Arista Records.

Stansfield's six album deal with Arista / BMG records had now been obliged, ending an eighteen year association with the label.

His first solo singles, " Vivrant Thing " and " Breathe & Stop ", were far more pop-oriented than anything he had done in A Tribe Called Quest, as was his solo debut LP for Arista Records, Amplified.

Russell travelled to England in 1979, and while there, discovered that the group's Australian record label Big Time Records had sold " Lost in Love " to Arista Records in the United States for distribution.

Dunn announced via Facebook on June 7, 2012 that he had exited Arista Nashville.

After a label change from A & M to Dallas Austin's Arista imprint Rowdy Records in 1996, For Real struck again with the Austin-produced, 60s-leaning single " Like I Do ", from their second album Free.

" In early 2004, distributor Arista Records dropped their imprint Star Trak Entertainment, which then linked with EMI's Virgin Records for a new distribution deal.

In 1981, Parsons, Woolfson and their record label Arista, were stalled in contract renegotiations when on 5 March the two submitted an all-instrumental atonal album tentatively titled ' The Sicilian Defence ' ( the name of an aggressive opening move in chess ), arguably to get out of their recording contract.

After their success with Lisa Stansfield, her label Arista offered Coldcut a deal.

The first album to come out of this downtown scene was released in November 1975: Smith's debut, Horses, produced by John Cale for the major Arista label.

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

The Alpha Band reputedly signed a huge-money deal with Arista Records, Clive Davis's label.

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

* Social Distortion manager Jim Guerinot forms the label Time Bomb Recordings in joint-venture agreement with Arista.

At Arista, Davis signed Patti Smith, The Outlaws, Eric Carmen, Exposé, Ace of Base, Air Supply, Dionne Warwick, Ray Parker and Raydio, Aretha Franklin, and Alicia Keys, and he brought to the label Carly Simon, The Grateful Dead, The Kinks and Lou Reed.

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

Following her signing with Warners, with Bacharach and David as writers and producers, Dionne returned to New York City's A & R Studios in late 1971 to begin recording her first album for the new label, the self-titled album Dionne ( not to be confused with her later Arista debut album ) in January 1972.

He has recorded 14 studio albums, 3 Greatest Hits albums, 2 Holiday albums, 1 Gospel album and several compilations, all on the Arista Nashville label.

The producers promptly placed her with Antonio " L. A ." Reid who offered the singer a contract with his label Arista Records after hearing one song she wrote and sung in front of him and his staff.

Findlay also owned Zoom Records ( a subsidiary of the Arista Records label ), and used his position to get Simple Minds signed to Arista.

The band's label, however, demonstrated little enthusiasm for such experimentation, and in 1981 Simple Minds switched from Arista to Virgin.

Goodie Mob was signed to LaFace Records's parent label Arista Records for their third album.

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

Arista () was an American record label.

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 ).

The British Bell label kept that name for a couple of years before changing its name to Arista.

The label was immortalized in the 1978 Rockpile song " They Called It Rock ," in the lyric, " Arista says they love you / But the kids can't dance to this.