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After being released from the label The Doors played club venues including the London Fog and The Whisky a Go Go until they were signed to Elektra records by Jac Holzman.
Hudson's pulled all Elektra records from their stores, and in the ensuing controversy, Jac Holzman, the head of Elektra, dropped the band from their contract, though there were later allegations of strong company support of the controversial content of the LP.
Joe Smith, under whose leadership resulted in the biggest market share and gross revenues Elektra Asylum was to have, inherited the A & R services of Chuck Plotkin, famed later for producing many of Bruce Springsteen's greatest records, followed up by George Daly, who is credited as bringing in seminal New Wave band The Cars, setting Elektra, again, on another artist direction.
A contract was negotiated with Elektra records for $ 250, 000 and Vandross agreed to produce the album.
They managed to mix the folk music interest with the money making capacity of the sex education records by issuing " When Dalliance was in Flower "-a series of bawdy songs performed by Ed McCurdy and licensed from Elektra in the US.
The songwriting duo of Stephan Jenkins and Kevin Cadogan signed the band's first major label recording contract with Elektra records in 1996 resulting in two multi platinum albums.
In the US, Sedaka's records were issued first on the Rocket label from 1974 – 77 and on the Elektra label from 1977-81.
The Elektra band broke up after the release of the album and Hot Water Music continued to produce records under their original name.
* Metallica ( Active, with Elektra Records now with Warner Bros. records ) and later left Warner bros. in 2008
Kevin Cadogan along with his co-writer Stephan Jenkins signed a recording contract with Elektra records in May 1996 which launched Third Eye Blind into stardom.
In 1999 Cadogan was asked to sign a 1 million dollar loan from Elektra records which would allow Third Eye Blind to record an EP and release it on its own label as a subsidiary of Elektra.
In November 1999 Elektra records issued the funds to the Stephan Jenkins owned Third Eye Blind corporation without Cadogan's signature as Elektra had previously required.
Over a span of five years, the band released four major label records on East West, Elektra Records and Island Records.
The sound was specially remixed in stereo and Elektra / Asylum records agreed to license the original Eagles theme music for the laserdisc release.
The group released numerous albums on Vanguard throughout the 1970s, also making three records for Elektra / Asylum between 1978 and 1980 ( including the highly acclaimed Out of the Woods and a live recording taken from performances at Carnegie Hall and in Canada in late 1979 ).
By 1984 the band had signed a distribution deal with Warner Bros. records ( Elektra in the US ) whilst still maintaining control of Merciful Release.
Following the commercial failure of the Mötley Crüe album and tour, the band was under pressure by executives at Elektra records to return Mötley Crüe to the level of commercial success that the band enjoyed in the 1980s.

Elektra and signed
Meanwhile, the Pixies signed an American distribution deal with major record label Elektra.
Aware of the band's growing popularity, Elektra Records signed them that year.
In 1989, They Might Be Giants signed with Elektra Records, and released their third album Flood the following year.
X then signed to Elektra in 1982 to release Under the Big Black Sun, which marked a slight departure from their trademark sound.
Queen left Elektra Records, their label in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, and signed onto EMI / Capitol Records.
In 1981, Planet Records ( with distribution through Elektra ) signed the group and released their self-titled debut album which Holloway also produced.
However, once the deal was signed with Elektra Records, the band resumed playing and produced their most commercially successful album to date.
* Jobriath Boone-( born Bruce Wayne Campbell December 14, 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died August 3, 1983 ), A native of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, he was an American folk and glam rock musician and actor. He was the first openly gay rock musician to be signed to a major record label, Elektra Records ..
In late 1987, the band signed to One Little Indian in the UK, Elektra Records in the US.
In 1968, the Stooges were signed by Elektra Records, who had sent a scout named Danny Fields to see the MC5.
They were the first hard rock groups signed to the fledgling Elektra.
The MC5 then signed with Atlantic Records, now part of the same company as Elektra.
Better Than Ezra signed with Elektra Records in 1995.
Better Than Ezra, now no longer with Elektra Records, signed with the Beyond Records label and began work on new material.
With the help of Leak and Elektra Records A & R man Howard Thompson, 10, 000 Maniacs signed to Elektra in November 1984.
Royer then introduced Gates to his songwriting partner, Griffin, and the trio joined together in 1968 and signed with Elektra Records, choosing the name " Bread " in 1969.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was signed to Elektra Records after adding Bloomfield as lead guitarist.
The group signed with Elektra Records with the name Destiny, but it was dropped several months later before it could release an album.
The recording was paid for by Elektra before the band signed its contract that January.
Chapin ultimately signed with Elektra for a smaller advance, but with provisions that made it worth the move.
As of 2011, Goodie Mob signed with Elektra Records and began to focus on recording its new album.
After sending multiple demo tapes to nearby radio stations in his home state of California, the band began to receive considerable attention ; especially after Crosby sent a demo to Elektra Records, who eventually signed a contract with the budding musician.
At 19, Crosby's manager / ex-girlfriend Sakina Sati took him to New York, along with ex-members Daniel Alva and Stephen Garver, for the purpose of shopping his demo tapes through Shiva Baum, former manager for Opiate for the Masses, and a bidding war broke out ; he then signed with Elektra.

Elektra and her
# The Electra ( Elektra ) paradox: Electra doesn't know that the man approaching her is her brother, Orestes.
An identically composed trio had other names at Samothrace, according to Diodorus Siculus: Elektra and her two sons, Dardanos and Eetion or Iasion.
In the comics, Elektra becomes an assassin after witnessing her father's murder.
Although Marvel Comics published two conflicting histories of Elektra Natchios, in the original version Orestez murdered their mother after her infidelities shamed their father.
It is speculated by some that she was possibly a goddess of the morning, or of man's waking sense, which causes him to wake up in the morning ; the Doric form of her name is akin to the Greek word for " rooster " ( Alectrona, the feminine genitive of Αλεκτορ, Alektor, the Greek word for " rooster "), while the Greek form Electryone is akin to the word for " amber " ( Ἠλέκτρα, Elektra ), as in the amber color of sunrise ( as opposed to sunset, implied by Helios being her father ); naturally, either of which would be an appropriate name for a solar goddess.
In 1975, Elektra released her first greatest-hits album, The Best of Carly Simon, which became Simon's all time best selling disc and eventually reached Triple-Platinum status in the United States.
Simon released her last album for Elektra, Spy, in 1979.
After her contract with Elektra expired in August 2002, Merchant decided not to sign with them again, or any other major label.
He is also a fan of several pop music artists, especially singer / songwriters including The Beatles ; James Taylor ( after whom he named the song " James " on Offramp ); Bruce Hornsby, Cheap Trick, Joni Mitchell, with whom he performed on her Shadows and Light ( 1980, Asylum / Elektra ) live tour.
In 2010, she made her foray into Malayalam cinema with Shyamaprasad's Elektra, a psycho-sensual drama based on Sophocles's ancient Greek tragic play Electra.
Elektra Natchios, usually referred to only by her first name Elektra, is a fictional character in publications from Marvel Comics.
In Elektra: Root of Evil # 1-4 ( March-June 1995 ), it is stated that her father was an aspiring diplomat who eventually managed to gain his first assignment as an ambassador to an unspecified country.
Elektra was born on the clinic floor, painted red from the blood of her mother.
Furthermore, Elektra: Assassin # 1 ( August 1986 ) placed ambiguity on the relationship Elektra had with her father.
The adult Elektra recalled vague memories of being raped by her father as a 5 year old.
Another memory had the 6 year old Elektra sitting on Hugo's lap while her teasing father compared her to a cat ; likely the Cheshire Cat from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Elektra grew up close to her father but was plagued by dark visions and voices with no known source.
There, Elektra met the man who would become her boyfriend, Matt Murdock.
A year later, twenty-year-old Elektra and her father were kidnapped by terrorists.
Elektra was fatally stabbed by Bullseye with one of her own sai in a battle over which of them would be the Kingpin's assassin.

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