Prior to the 1950s, the various stages of the recording and marketing process had been carried out by different professionals within the industry – A & R managers found potential new artists and signed them to their labels ; professional songwriters created new material ; publishing agents sold these songs to the A & R people ; staff engineers carried out the task of making the recordings in company-owned studios.

Prior to deciding on this name, they were called Talking America on early demos sent to record and publishing companies.

Prior to 2011, the International headquarters were located in Joplin, Missouri where a college and a publishing house operated.

Prior to beginning his own publishing efforts, Winn frequently wrote articles for other radical papers.

Prior to its reprint in 1982 by the Australian publishing house Angus & Robertson, it is claimed that only seven copies of the book survived in various Australian state libraries and in the possession of Witton's family.

Prior to publishing his monograph, Synan added three chapters beyond his dissertation to include the Catholic Charismatic Movement which was at this time in full swing.

Prior to publishing, Taneyev " revised and signally improved the orchestration, which had not been uniformly satisfactorily .... hereafter, Taneyev began to avail himself of Glazunov's advice in orchestration ; of course he made rapid strides in that field.

Prior to the passage of the Act, the law on publishing obscene materials was governed by the common law case of R v Hicklin, which had no exceptions for artistic merit or the public good.

Prior to publishing his first original works of fiction, Pressfield wrote several Hollywood screenplays, most notably 1988's Above the Law starring Steven Seagal and directed by Andrew Davis, 1992 ’ s Freejack, a work of science fiction starring Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, and Anthony Hopkins, and 1993's Joshua Tree ( a. k. a. Army Of One ) starring Dolph Lundgren and George Segal.

Prior to 2008, the industry had hoped that publishing news online would prove lucrative enough to fund the costs of conventional newsgathering.

Prior to publishing in North America, the title was changed to The Iron Giant ( as were all references to the metal man ) to avoid confusion and legal issues with Marvel Comics ' character, Iron Man.

Prior to 2010 it was known as the British Book Awards and was promoted by the UK publishing industry trade journal Publishing News.

Prior to that, the same group took over a Prague newspaper where they gained valuable publishing experience which encouraged them to go on further.

Prior to 2011, Gibson was actively seeking a new recording contract, distribution and publishing deal ( after several years away from the music industry to focus on his family ), with over 120 published works and 300 unpublished songs.

Prior to the novel The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams ( to explain a publishing hiatus in the series ) it was revealed that the bookstore was actually making a profit, before its building's landlord changed and the new owner raised the rent catastrophically.

Prior to publishing cookbooks, Jean was a well known caterer in her home town of Vermilion, Alberta.

Prior to the promulgation of the Master Plan, UC was to select from the top 15 %.

Prior to the reunification of the city, the Land Use Plan of 1988 and General Development Plan of 1980 defined the spatial planning criteria for West and East Berlin, respectively.

Prior to implementation of Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978 by E. O.

Prior to the 1943 Quebec Conference, a joint British-American planning team produced a plan (" Appreciation and Plan for the Defeat of Japan ") which did not call for an invasion of the Japanese home islands until 1947 – 1948.

Prior endowments were $ 538. 4 million in 2005 and $ 195. 1 million in 1997, the rapid increases partially attributed to the " Top 20 " Plan.

Prior to his death of a heroin overdose in 1988, Slovak recorded two albums with the band, Freaky Styley ( 1985 ) and The Uplift Mofo Party Plan ( 1987 ).

Prior to this development, the City has extended its urban fringe to west of Roman Superhighway and a new growth center in Barangay Tuyo has been delineated in the Comprehensive Land Use Plan.

Prior to the start of the Convention, the Virginian delegates met and, drawing largely from Madison's suggestions, came up with what came to be known as the Virginia Plan, also known as the Large State Plan.

Prior to Indian Independence in 1947, Hindu law formed part of the British colonial legal system and was formally established as such in 1722 by Governor-General Warren Hastings who declared in his Plan for the Administration of Justice that " in all suits regarding inheritance, marriage, caste and other religious usages or institutions, the laws of the Koran with respect to the Mohamedans and those of the Shaster with respect to the Gentoos shall invariably be adhered to.

Prior to his return to India, Ali Khan rose to prominence and was also the influential member of the Muslim League led under Mohammad Ali Jinnah, advocating and determining to eradicate the injustices and ill treatment meted out to the Indian Muslims by the British government, and rose as the influential and later was one of the principle Founding Fathers of Pakistan.

Prior to being elected a State Representative, she spent two years advocating for university students in her district as Director of State Relations for Florida International University.

Prior to electrification and diesel locomotives, Brooklyn was a staging post for trains heading south to Sydney with " push up " or bank engines being attached to the rear of steam trains here for extra assistance on the eight kilometre climb to Cowan.

Prior to 1961, almost all Irish diesel locomotives were built in Great Britain, but from the 1960s onwards, GM became the sole supplier of locomotives to CIÉ, which eventually also extended to Northern Ireland Railways locomotives at a later stage.

Prior to the introduction of the FL9, all non-multiple unit New Haven passenger trains were hauled by electric locomotives between New York and New Haven, with a change to steam ( before 1950 ) or diesel at New Haven.

Prior to 1991, passengers would change for a 2 car diesel train to complete their journey to Richmond.

Prior to the introduction of diesel engines, Tamworth Railway Station was particularly well known to ' train spotting ' enthusiasts as the closest station to Birmingham at which the larger and faster steam engines could be seen on the London to the North West Coast Line.

Prior to this, Perth's rail transport network consisted of three railway lines radiating from Perth and operated by a mixture of diesel railcars and diesel locomotive hauled trains.

Prior to grouping, with the development and implementation by competitors ( notably L & SWR, LB & SCR, various " Tube " companies ) and electric trams ) of electric traction in the early twentieth century, SECR planned to start electrifying its lines.

Prior to this, trains destined to beyond Rickmansworth were hauled by the famous Metropolitan Vickers Bo-Bo electric locomotives until Rickmansworth where a changeover to steam traction occurred.

Prior to World War 2, there was a higher percentage of endogamous marriages than after World War 2.

Prior to modern times, there was no distinction between architects, engineers and often artists, and the title used varied depending on geographical location.

Prior to the controversy surrounding Agent Orange, there was already a large body of scientific evidence linking 2, 4, 5-T to serious negative health effects and ecological damage.

Prior to major influence from outside, there were approximately 25, 000 Aleuts on the archipelago.

Prior to the charter, there were various statutes which protected an assortment of civil rights and obligations, but nothing was enshrined in the constitution until 1982.

Prior to the formation of the Dallas Cowboys, there was not an NFL team south of Washington DC.

Prior to dividing by, one needs to check if there are stationary ( also called equilibrium )

Prior to that, there exist references to " badger dogs " and " hole dogs ", but these likely refer to purposes rather than to specific breeds.

Prior to The Origin of Species, there was little appreciation or understanding of the dynamic and reciprocal relations between organisms, their adaptations, and the environment.

Prior to his death, Parsons stated that he wanted his body cremated at Joshua Tree and his ashes spread over Cap Rock, a prominent natural feature there ; however, Parsons ' stepfather arranged for a private ceremony back in New Orleans and neglected to invite any of his friends from the music industry.

Prior to statehood, there were five governors of the Michigan Territory.

Prior to Keynes, a situation in which aggregate demand for goods and services did not meet supply was referred to by classical economists as a general glut, although there was disagreement among them as to whether a general glut was possible.

Arthur Prior asserts that there is nothing paradoxical about the liar paradox.

Prior to this proposal, Goethe, de Saussure, Venetz, Jean de Charpentier, Karl Friedrich Schimper and others had made the glaciers of the Alps the subjects of special study, and Goethe, Charpentier as well as Schimper had even arrived at the conclusion that the erratic blocks of alpine rocks scattered over the slopes and summits of the Jura Mountains had been moved there by glaciers.

Prior to this period there was a general perception that the climate of Washington State was too cold to produce red wine varietals.

Prior to 1800 the majority of Maltese were engaged in agriculture or fishing, although there was significant trade.

Prior to 1950, there were only of railway lines.

Prior to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone and its eventual decipherment, there had been no understanding of the Ancient Egyptian language and script since shortly before the fall of the Roman Empire.

Prior to the Garcia decision, the determination of whether there was state immunity from federal regulation turned on whether the state activity was " traditional " for or " integral " to the state government.

On 28 April, Powell spoke in the Commons against the Northern Ireland Secretary's ( Jim Prior ) plans for devolution to a power-sharing assembly in Northern Ireland: " We assured the people of the Falkland Islands that there should be no change in their status without their agreement.

Prior to Thurston, there were only a handful of known examples of hyperbolic 3-manifolds of finite volume, such as the Seifert – Weber space.

Prior to the European foundation of the city, there was no established nation state, and the population instead consisted of some indigenous semi-nomad groups that are collectively called Chichimecas.

For example, there is a story that at the Battle of Neville's Cross in 1346, the Prior of the Abbey at Durham received a vision of Cuthbert, ordering him to take the corporax cloth of the saint and raise it on a spear point near the battlefield as a banner.

Prior to that there had been an agricultural society in the town dating back to the 1790s, which held ploughing competitions.

Prior to the 1870s there were vast herds of buffalo in Nebraska which provided fresh meat and jerky for the trip.