* Capitol Records, a U. S. record label

They secured a record contract with Capitol Records, but Hooper left the band before the remaining trio moved to Los Angeles to record their debut album.

Eventually titled Temple of Low Men, their second album was released in July 1988 with strong promotion by Capitol Records.

He formed the band Largest Living Things, which was the name rejected by Capitol Records in favour of Crowded House.

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These companies are often children of or partially owned by general market labels such as Warner, EMI, and Capitol Records, giving successful artists an opportunity to " cross over " into mainstream markets.

He signed with Capitol Records in 1953 and released several critically lauded albums ( such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin ' Lovers, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice ' n ' Easy ).

Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records in 1961 ( finding success with albums such as Ring-a-Ding-Ding !, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim ), toured internationally, was a founding member of the Rat Pack and fraternized with celebrities and statesmen, including John F. Kennedy.

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He was the youngest child of Troyal Raymond Brooks, a draftsman for an oil company, and Colleen Carroll, a 1950s-era country singer who recorded on the Capitol Records label and appeared on Ozark Jubilee.

In 1993, Garth Brooks, who had criticized music stores which sold used CDs since it led to a loss in royalty payments, persuaded Capitol Records not to ship his August 1993 album In Pieces to stores which engaged in this practice.

Plans went awry when Capitol Records experienced a huge management shakeup, leaving many of his contacts at the label out in the cold.

Later that evening, Capitol Records saluted his achievement of selling 100 million albums in the US with a lavish party at Nashville's Gaylord Entertainment Center.

Clokey's rights to use the original Capitol Records production tracks could not be renewed at the time, due to legal issues.

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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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A contract with Capitol Records granted the nonet several recording sessions between January 1949 and April 1950.

But she drifted back to songwriting and occasional recording sessions for the fledgling Capitol Records in 1947, for whom she produced a long string of hits, many of them with lyrics and music by Lee and Barbour, including " I Don't Know Enough About You " and " It's a Good Day " ( 1948 ).

Her relationship with the Capitol label spanned almost three decades, aside from her brief but artistically rich detour ( 1952 – 1956 ) at Decca Records, where in 1956 she recorded one of her most acclaimed albums, Black Coffee.

Lee was a mainstay of Capitol Records when rock ' n ' roll came onto the American music scene.

Cato relocated first to San Francisco, California in 1977, then to Washington, D. C. in 1981, settling initially in a historic house on Capitol Hill.

QMS initially held back from signing a record deal at the time but eventually signed to Capitol Records in late 1967, becoming the last of the top-ranked San Francisco bands to sign with a major label.

M. C. Hammer had received several offers from major record labels before ( which he initially declined due to his personal success ), but after the successful release of this independent album and elaborate live dance show amazed the Capitol Records executive, Hammer agreed to sign a record deal soon after.

Nice had been initially released in the US with a slightly longer version of Rondo 69 not available on the UK or on the Capitol distributed US versions.

Paul's Boutique was initially considered a commercial failure by the executives at Capitol Records, as its sales did not match that of the group's previous record, Licensed to Ill, and the label eventually decided to stop promoting the album.

In the US, Capitol initially treated Harvest as a separate label that they expected big sales from.

I Love You " and " Twist and Shout " b / w " There's a Place " via its subsidiary Tollie Records ), because EMI's autonomous United States company Capitol initially refused to release Beatles records.

In the heated issue of whether the Confederate flag should be removed from the dome of the state Capitol, Beasley was initially in favor of allowing the flag to remain.

More touring followed, but personnel changes within Blue Note's parent company, Capitol Records, allowed Wilkinson to leave and sign to Sony, working with the A & R executive that initially signed him in 1992 .. Blue Note samples were not included and two new vocalists joined the group: rapper Michelob, and singer Alison Crockett.

Capitol Broadcasting Company president Jim Goodmon initially proposed building the new stadium near Raleigh-Durham International Airport, but after city leaders in Durham offered to renovate the old ballpark or help build a new stadium, the current downtown Durham site was secured.

Sid was the " muscle " of the group and initially brought in to counter-act the strength of Robocop at Capitol Combat ' 90.

At the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, as a new State Senator, Byrd was initially a progressive with an early interest in road improvements.

Vee-Jay had gained American rights to the tracks before the group became popular in America ( because Capitol, the US division of EMI which owns The Beatles ' record label Parlophone, had refused to release the group's records ), and their releases had initially failed to chart.

Route 6 traffic initially left Sacramento on the 1911 I Street Bridge, heading southwest through the small settlement of Washington via D Street, 5th Street, and present Tower Court to West Capitol Avenue.

Since the southerly bypass had not been completed in time for the 1964 renumbering, the route over the Tower Bridge — and along downtown streets — became Route 80, but US 99W signage remained ( initially following Capitol Mall to near the State Capitol, later turning south onto 3rd and 5th Streets east of the bridge ) until the late 1960s, before I-5 had finished replacing old US 99W north of Woodland.

Produced by Rob Schnapf ( Elliott Smith, The Vines ), De Nova was the first album the band released on Capitol since initially signing with the label in 2003.

Capitol Records was not happy with Le Chat Bleu, believing that American audiences were incapable of listening to songs with accordions and lavish string arrangements ; consequently they initially released the album only in Europe, in 1980.

Following his second defeat, Gillette initially remained on Capitol Hill, serving as counsel with the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee ( from 1955 to 1956 ) and the Senate Judiciary Committee ( from 1956 to 1961 ).

Immediately after Cinna's election, Sulla made Cinna swear loyalty to him by taking a stone up to the Capitol and casting it down, " praying that, if he failed to preserve his goodwill for Sulla, he might be thrown out of Rome as the stone was thrown out of his hand ".

In February 1970, two months after Upon This Rock was released, Capitol dropped Norman from their label, as the album was deemed a " commercial flop " as it had failed to reach the sales target Capitol expected, telling Norman that " there is no market for your music.

An accident occurred on October 2, 2007, in the Rayburn to Capitol subway line when a car failed to slow down when it reached the end of the track line.

Known as In Concert ( not to be confused with the 1985 Capitol release of the same name ), King Biscuit experienced modest success with the album ( though America themselves did not: it failed to break the charts ).

Capitol Records, meanwhile, tried to make as much capital out of the rumours as possible, by issuing ambiguously worded statements that failed to make the band's identity entirely clear.

For instance, during his time in the state legislature, Abraham Lincoln leapt out of a first story window ( the doors of the Capitol had been locked to prevent legislators from fleeing ) in a failed attempt to prevent a quorum from being present.

Medazzaland ( 1997 ) and Pop Trash ( 2000 )— written after the departure of bassist John Taylor and Duran Duran's separation from Capitol Records — featured mostly new Cuccurullo / Rhodes songs and reworked TV Mania material, but failed to dent the charts even though the band sold out multiple nights in most cities on the 2000 / 2001 tour.

Despite releasing a split single with leading alt-rockers Nirvana and signing to Capitol Records, the band failed to find commercial success amid the alternative rock explosion of the 1990s, and disbanded in 1999.

Even the nearly exhaustive official color scheme for the seal ( e. g., " the spear of Minerva shall be Oakwood, Cable No. 70094 and the tip white "), passed in 1967 -- thirty years after the structure was officially added -- failed to mention the building, and while the seal in the current carpet of the Governor's Office reception area in the State Capitol shows the building, it is shaded the same color as the mountains ( see image ' ca.

1992's Burning Questions was released by Capitol Records, who promptly dropped him after the album failed to sell.

In July 1958 Paul and Ford left Capitol and signed with the Columbia label, but the move failed to restore their declining career.

But after it and 1980's Danger Zone failed to break out, Hagar felt that Capitol wasn't supporting him sufficiently.

After the Reprise single failed, Capitol Records released their last Beach Boys single, " Cottonfields ".

Before Capitol came along, The Beatles had been with Vee-Jay Records, until Vee-Jay failed to pay the royalties on time.

A few years later, when a bass player failed to show for a session at Capitol Records in Hollywood, she was asked to fill in on what was then often called the " Fender bass ".

The Staccatos follow-ups to " Half Past Midnight " did not meet with as much success in Canada, and in the US, the band's singles ( released by Capitol and Tower ) failed to chart at all.

But after one failed single, Strong moved on, recording two albums for Capitol Records in the mid 1970s.

Capitol again re-issued the song, just two months later, as the B-side of the " Somewhere Near Japan " single, but the single failed to chart.

Because of increased weight of the slightly longer 1928 Chevrolet National Series AB performance failed to improve from the 1927 Chevrolet Series AA Capitol.

In 1977 they also recorded " I Wanna See You Soon ", a duet with Capitol label mate Freda Payne which received airplay on BBC Radio 1 but failed to chart.

So the crowd moved by the words of Mark Antony, by the Will of Caesar and by the sight of the image of wax tried to carry the corpse to Capitol among the gods and failed.

Riley's record was an immediate smash ; Capitol Records did release Spears ' version the same week, but it failed to chart.