* 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.

Capitol Records initially failed to see the band's potential and gave them only low key promotion, forcing the band to play at small venues to try and gain attention.

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.

* Redshift, an EP by Splashdown released on Capitol Records

Much of what was used in the film was purchased from the library of Capitol Records, and an album of the soundtrack was released at one point.

In 1977, The Band recorded their seventh studio album Islands, which fulfilled their record contract with Capitol so that a planned Last Waltz film and album could be released on the Warner Bros. label.

In February 1965, it reached No. 1 in the UK and Australia, and No. 4 in the United States where it was released on EMI's Capitol label.

* January 10 – Introducing ... the Beatles is released by Chicago's Vee-Jay Records to get the jump on Capitol Records ' release of Meet the Beatles !, scheduled for January 20.

* January 20 – Meet the Beatles !, the first The Beatles album from Capitol Records in the United States, is released ten days after Chicago's Vee-Jay Records releases Introducing ...

Alex North ’ s score for the 1951 film version of A Streetcar Named Desire was released on a 10-inch LP by Capitol Records and sold so well that the label later re-released it on one side of a 12-inch LP with some of Max Steiner's film music on the reverse.

His first hit, released in 1987, was the single " Posse on Broadway ," whose title referred to a street in Seattle's Capitol Hill district.

The new studio album, entitled Phoenix, was released on Frontiers Records on 14 April 2008 ( via EMI / Capitol on 15 April in North America ), along with a world tour to promote.

Louis recorded a single in 1985 called " Kinky ," released on Capitol Records.

Later that year, Capitol Records signed Megadeth and they began work on their second album, released the next year, titled Peace Sells ... but Who's Buying ?.

Risk is the eighth studio album by American heavy metal band Megadeth released on August 31, 1999, and is the band's final studio album released by Capitol Records.

A two-LP Capitol Records album was released in 1962, the year of Laughton's death, entitled The Story Teller: A Session with Charles Laughton.

Most of the songs from the album were released in the United States by Capitol Records as the Meet The Beatles!

The album was also released in November 1963 by Capitol Records in Canada, with a slight change to the title: Beatlemania!

This release has the distinction of being the first LP of Beatles material released in North America, pre-dating the Capitol US Meet The Beatles!

The Ampex reel-to-reel tape version of The Beatles, released in 1970 after Capitol / EMI ceased manufacturing of pre-recorded reel tapes in North America, featured eight tracks in edited form: " Dear Prudence ", " Glass Onion ", " Don't Pass Me By ", " Why Don't We Do It In The Road ?".

Promotional Warner Bros. faux-Beatles Rutles five-song 33 RPM 12-inch ( PRO-E-723 ) complete with recreated Lads-in-Nehru-suits portrait in the same fashion and pose as the real Beatles ' portrait released on the sleeve of the Capitol 45 rpm release " I Want to Hold Your Hand " b / w " I Saw Her Standing There " ( Capitol 5112 ).

On the album, released through Capitol Records, he emulated the calypso sound and style, even adopting the style's unique pronunciations and slang.

Since Norman's first professional release in 1967 as a lead singer of the one-hit wonder band People !, more than 100 of his own albums have been released through such commercial record labels as Capitol, MGM, Verve, and his own independent labels: One Way Records, Solid Rock Records, Street Level Records, and Phydeaux Records.

In 1967 Capitol released People!