The early disco sound was largely an urban American phenomenon with producers and labels such as SalSoul Records ( Ken, Joe and Stanley Cayre ), West End Records ( Mel Cheren ), Casablanca ( Neil Bogart ), and Prelude ( Marvin Schlachter ) to name a few.

Casablanca Records had been releasing fewer records in the 1980s, and was shut down in 1986 by parent company PolyGram.

*" Sweet Soca Song ( La La La Ti Ti Ti )"-Robin Imamshah ( Casablanca Records NY ), highest debuting soca song on Billboard 200 at # 112, over 100, 000 copies sold

The soundtrack album ( containing songs from the film ) was released on Casablanca Records.

The primary reason for recording under his own name was legal difficulties, due to the complex copyright and trademark issues surrounding the name " Parliament " ( primarily ) and Polygram's purchase of that group's former label Casablanca Records.

Parliament first recorded for Invictus Records in 1970, and after a hiatus in which Clinton focused on Funkadelic, Parliament was signed to Casablanca Records and released its debut album Up for the Down Stroke in 1974.

Due to financial difficulties and the collapse of Casablanca Records ( Parliament's label ), Clinton dissolved Parliament and Funkadelic as separate entities.

Clinton relaunched Parliament in 1974 and signed the act to Casablanca Records.

In the early 1980s, with legal difficulties arising from the multiple names used by multiple groups, as well as a shakeup at Casablanca Records, George Clinton dissolved Parliament and Funkadelic as recording and touring entities.

George Clinton revived Parliament in 1974 and signed that act to Casablanca Records.

The song was then sent to Casablanca Records president Neil Bogart in hopes of getting an American release.

After the release of the On the Radio hits album, Summer wanted to branch out into other musical styles in addition to disco, which led to tensions between her and Casablanca Records as Casablanca wanted her to continue to record in the disco format while Summer wanted to sing more rock and pop-based music.

Problems then increased between Summer and Geffen Records after they were notified by Polygram Records, Summer's former label Casablanca was by then a wholly owned subsidiary, that she needed to deliver them one more album to fulfill her contract with them.

" Summer wrote " The Queen Is Back " and " Mr. Music " with J. R. Rotem and Evan Bogart, the son of Casablanca Records founder, Neil Bogart.

Burke's daughter, Melanie " Honey " Burke McCall, a Neo Soul singer who is an accomplished artist as well as a freelance background recording artist with companies such as Daxwood Records, Casablanca, A & M and Rawkus Records and a studio artist for groups such as Billy Preston, Peacock ( Anna Gayle group ), and Leslie Uggams, and toured with Chaka Khan, and wrote and produced Family, & Friends, a 14-song original soundtrack for Ms, which was released in 2005, and opened for Jocelyn Brown, Jaheim, Norman Connors, and Angela Bofill, as well as for her father at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia in 2006.

A minor deal with Casablanca Records fell through, and Chapin settled on a simple one-album deal with Boardwalk Records.

Hay left again before the next album was released in Australia in 1982 as I Thought This Was Love, But This Ain't Casablanca on Mushroom Records and elsewhere as Out in the Jungle ... Where Things Ain't So Pleasant on New Rose Records.

* Neil Bogart, founder of Casablanca Records

The original Berber name, Anfa ( meaning: " hill " in English ), was used by the locals, and Berber-speaking, city dwellers until the French occupation army entered the city in 1907 and adopted the Spanish name, Casablanca.

The area which is today Casablanca was settled by Berbers by at least the 7th century BC.

In his book “ Wasf Afriquia ”, Hassan Al Wazan refers to ancient Casablanca as " Anfa ", a great city which was founded by the Berber kingdom of Barghawata in 768 AD.

Casablanca in 1572, when was still called Anfa

This effectively began the process of colonization, although French control of Casablanca was not formalised until 1910.

During the 1940s and 1950s, Casablanca was a major centre of anti-French rioting.

Casablanca was an important strategic port during World War II and hosted the Casablanca Conference in 1943, in which Churchill and Roosevelt discussed the progress of the war.

Casablanca was the site of a large American air base, which was the staging area for all American aircraft for the European Theater of Operations during World War II.

On 16 May 2003, 33 civilians were killed and more than 100 people were injured when Casablanca was hit by a multiple suicide bomb attack carried out by Moroccans and claimed by some to have been linked to al-Qaeda.

In 2004, it announced that it was moving its head office from Casablanca to a location in Province of Nouaceur, close to Mohammed V International Airport.

The population of Grand Casablanca was estimated in 2005 at 3. 85 million.

Jews were slow to return to the town, but by 1750 the Rabbi Elijah Synagogue was built as the first Jewish synagogue in Casablanca.

The French period Ville Nouvelle ( New Town ) of Casablanca was designed by the French architect Henri Prost, and was a model of a new town at that time.

* The Casablanca Technopark is an information technology Business cluster complex located at Casablanca, and was inaugurated in October 2001.

He was promptly shipped to Casablanca and, later in the war, to France.

Roman control reached the area of Casablanca, then called Anfa according to Leo Africanus: it was used as a port by the Phoenicians and later the Romans.

In May 2003, Morocco itself was subjected to the more radical forces at work in the Arab world when Islamist suicide bombers simultaneously struck a series of sites in Casablanca, killing 45 and injuring more than 100 others.

In 1942, Steiner won his second Oscar for Now, Voyager, and was also nominated for Casablanca, which remains one of his most famous scores.

This was fine for pre-1953 films such as The Wizard of Oz or Casablanca.

On 14 April, two brothers blew themselves up in downtown Casablanca, one near the American Consulate, and one a few blocks away near the American Language Center.

In addition, it is ranked third, behind Citizen Kane, and Casablanca on the AFI's 100 Years … 100 Movies list by the American Film Institute.

Notable American films from the war years include the anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine ( 1943 ), scripted by Dashiell Hammett ; Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Hitchcock's direction of a script by Thornton Wilder ; the George M. Cohan biopic, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), starring James Cagney, and the immensely popular Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart.

In the cool-climate South American wine regions of Argentina's Uco Valley and Chile's Casablanca, Chardonnay has started to develop a presence.

U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt stopped overnight in Banjul en route to and from the Casablanca Conference in 1943, marking the first visit to the African continent by a sitting American president.

The Western Task Force ( aimed at Casablanca ) comprised American units, with Major General George Patton in command and Rear Admiral Henry K. Hewitt heading the naval operations.

The 1942 Casablanca centers on the development of conscience in the cynical American Rick Blaine ( Humphrey Bogart ) in the face of oppression by the Nazis and the example of the resistance leader Victor Laszlo. The David Lean and Robert Bolt screenplay for Doctor Zhivago ( an adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel ) focuses strongly on the conscience of a doctor-poet in the midst of the Russian Revolution ( in the end " the walls of his heart were like paper "). The 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner focuses on the struggles of conscience between and within a bounty hunter ( Rick Deckard ( Harrison Ford )) and a renegade replicant android ( Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer )) in a future society which refuses to accept that forms of artificial intelligence can have aspects of being such as conscience.

Although the albums are not exclusively about Key West, they detail the laid back island ethos of the small island city and its pre -" condo commando " status as an American Casablanca ... a place where no one knows your name and would not care if they did.

These strategic, coastal, and tactical units provided the model upon which British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and their staffs reorganized the Allied air forces in the North African and Mediterranean Theater of Operations ( MTO ) at the Casablanca Conference in January 1943.

In January 1943 Prime Minister Winston Churchill and American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt settled at the Casablanca conference on the island of Sicily, whose invasion and occupation could potentially provide the Allies with Mediterranean shipping routes and airfields nearer to mainland Italy and Germany.

This song was originally a full side of her North American debut release, but released again in early 1977 backed with " Try Me, I Know We Can Make It ", on the Oasis / Casablanca label.

In the end, only French forces fought, and the most significant battles took place at Casablanca where only American naval units were supporting operations.

Kilroy, a young American visitor, fulfills some of the functions of the play's narrator, as does Gutman, ( named after Sydney Greenstreet's character from The Maltese Falcon, but bearing more resemblance to Signor Ferrari, Greenstreet's character in Casablanca ) manager of the hotel Siete Mares, whose terrace occupies part of the stage.

The use of the term was revived during World War II at the Casablanca conference when American President Franklin D. Roosevelt sprang it on the other Allies and the press as the objective of the war against the Axis Powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan.

GPG needed to move into the US and UK markets, and did so by a process of both formation and acquisition: Polydor Records established its American operations in 1969, Mercury Record Productions ( US ) was acquired in 1972 from sister company North American Philips Corp., RSO ( UK ) in 1967, MGM Records and Verve ( US ) in 1972, Casablanca ( US ) in 1977, Pickwick in 1978, and Decca ( UK ) in 1980 ( the latter acquisition basically brought PolyGram full circle, see the HDD section above ).

During the American bombardment of Kandahar, Adel was present and witnessed the deaths of Abu-Ali al-Yafi ' i and his wife, Abu-Usamah al-Ta ' zi with his wife and two children, the wife of Rayyan al-Ta ' zi, the wife of Abu-Usamah al-Kini, and the wife of Al-Barra al-Hijazi who was arrested in Morocco before the Casablanca bombings.

Paul Henreid ( born Paul Georg Julius Hernreid Ritter von Wassel-Waldingau ; 10 January 1908-29 March 1992 ) was an Trieste-born American actor and film director, best remembered for playing Victor Laszlo in Casablanca ( 1942 ).

His flagships included USS Augusta while he commanded American naval forces at the Battle of Casablanca, Monrovia while he commanded the western task force during the invasion of Sicily, and Ancon while he commanded all Allied amphibious forces during the invasion of Italy and later Anzio landings and invasion of southern France.

" The supercouple created by the ill-fated ex-lovers Rick and Ilsa in Casablanca has been called one of cinema's most beloved couples, and is regarded by the American Film Institute as the film industry's " top " romance.