The show became a cult favorite, and a truncated original cast recording released by Columbia Records sold well among Sondheim fans and musical theatre buffs.

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.

A specimen was bought in 1971 by the Icelandic Museum of National History for the sum of £ 9000, which placed it in the Guinness Book of Records as the most expensive stuffed bird ever sold.

Kid Rock released several studio albums that mostly went unnoticed before his 1998 record Devil Without a Cause, released with Atlantic Records, sold 11 million albums behind the hits, " Bawitdaba ", " Cowboy ", and " Only God Knows Why ".

By 1970, Dot had become an all-country label and in 1974, Paramount sold all of its record holdings to ABC Records, which in turn was sold to MCA ( now Universal Music Group ) in 1979.

Records also continue to be manufactured and sold today, albeit in very small quantities when compared to the disc phonograph's heyday.

GE sold its 50 % interest in then-RCA / Ariola International Records to its partner Bertelsmann and the company was renamed BMG Music, for Bertelsmann Music Group.

However, the singers did not get along well with Spector personally and their contract was sold on to Verve / MGM Records in 1965.

In 1989, Anderson made a substantial financial donation to found the Polar Music Prize from money he made when he sold the multi-million dollar record company Polar Records.

In the mid-1980s she started a new, highly successful record label called Record Station ( sold to German BMG in the early 90s ), followed by Anderson Records.

Williams was entered in The Guinness Book of World Records when, after he announced his World Tour for 2006, 1. 6 million tickets were sold in one single day.

The manufacturer received a certificate from The Guinness World Records for the most expensive bottle of spirit ever sold.

An exclusive three-coloured vinyl was also sold at only one shop – Spillers Records in Cardiff.

Numan signed to IRS Records and his final studio album of the 1980s, the edgy, industrial-funk Metal Rhythm ( 1988 ) found favour with fans and scored some positive reviews in the UK music press, but it sold poorly despite two hit singles.

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.

Verve Records was sold to MGM in 1963 for $ 3 million and in 1967 MGM failed to renew Fitzgerald's contract.

The exact number of copies sold has never been audited ; however, a figure of at least 25 million was cited by the Guinness Book of World Records in its category " Phonograph records: Biggest Sellers " from the early 1970s until the 1990s, when the advent of compact discs led to Guinness discontinuing the category.

It sold well and was followed in 1952 by a cover of a 1940s rhythm and blues song called " Rock the Joint " ( this time for Holiday's sister company, Essex Records ).

Sales of " Rock Around the Clock " started slow but eventually sold an estimated 25 million copies ( per the Guinness Book of World Records ) and marked the arrival of a cultural shift.

The entire group was sold to MCA Records in 1979 ; as a result of subsequent takeovers, the remnants of the ABC music group are now owned by Universal Music Group.

The band was also able to secure a small recording deal with Azra / Metal Storm Records that resulted in the 1984 four track EP Overkill, that quickly sold out, instantly pushing the band to the forefront of the fledgling thrash metal movement.

The film was also re-released in 2001 by Charly Records and sold with an audio CD of the music and some of the commentary.

Records were produced under license by Columbia " Special Products " division and sold exclusively through Chrysler dealers.

Records sound like records because they provide a different sort of experience than live music.

In 1927, when Williams moved to OKeh Records, he took Jefferson with him, and OKeh quickly recorded and released Jefferson's " Matchbox Blues " backed with " Black Snake Moan ," which was to be his only OKeh recording, probably because of contractual obligations with Paramount.

Sima Qian ( 145-86 BC ), a Prefect of the Grand Scribes ( 太史令 ) of the Han Dynasty ( 202 BC-220 AD ), is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography because of his universal history, the Records of the Grand Historian ( 史記 ).

In early 1960, Brown's band recorded the top ten R & B hit, "( Do the ) Mashed Potatoes " on Dade Records, owned by Henry Stone, under the pseudonym " Nat Kendrick & The Swans " because Brown's label refused to release it.

The only Kid Rock album available on iTunes is " Grits Sandwiches For Breakfast " because Jive Records owns the rights to the album.

Plant received no credit for his songwriting contributions, said to be because of his being under contract to CBS Records.

Records themselves became an art form because of the large surface onto which graphics and books could be printed, and records could be molded into unusual shapes, colors, or with images ( picture discs ).

The single generated little reaction and, because of record company indifference, the band formed their own independent record label, Moon Records.

In 2005, guitarist Mike Mushok claimed during a deposition in Toledo, Ohio that Staind avoided any contact with Stainbrook because they were not made aware of promises a Geffen Records executive made to Stainbrook on their behalf during a 1999 licensing negotiation.

There was quite a bit of interest expressed by a number of labels, but The Stems chose Citadel Records because of the high quality of their releases at the time.

The album was released on Resurgence Records but there was no tour because of lack of interest.

Poe started a campaign which she referred to as the " Re-POE-Session ", an attempt to gain control of her master recordings from her former record label, Atlantic Records, because they refused to re-release her albums although she was still under contract.

Black Flag, however, was briefly signed to MCA subsidiary Unicorn Records, but were dropped because an executive considered their music to be anti-parent.

Giménez entered into the Guinness Book of Records because all the letters and phone calls she received in her show.

Industrial Records intended the term industrial to evoke the idea of music created for a new generation, with previous music being more agricultural: P-Orridge stated that " there's an irony in the word ' industrial ' because there's the music industry.

While Norman decided to leave Capitol Records in protest, because he had a different audience in mind, he cooperated with the re-release of Upon This Rock.

It is sometimes called the " cradle of recorded jazz " because some early jazz records were made here at the studio of Gennett Records, a division of the Starr Piano Company.

Plant and Page immediately hit it off with a shared musical passion and began their writing collaboration with reworkings of earlier blues songs, although Plant would receive no songwriting credits on the band's first album, allegedly because he was still under contract to CBS Records at the time.

No further albums were released when the show moved to Disney because the company that produced them, K-Tel Records, filed for bankruptcy at around the same time.

When Elektra Records was closed down by Warner Bros. Records in 2004, Stereolab was dropped along with many other artists, reportedly because of poor sales.

While Oxford officially marks the year 1683 as its founding because in that year it was first named by the Maryland General Assembly as a seaport, the town began between 1666 and 1668 when were laid out as a town called Oxford by William Stephens, Jr .. By 1669 one of the first houses was built for Innkeeper Francis Armstrong ( see Talbot County Land Records, A 1, f. 10 / 11 ).

Records show that Framlingham was only partially furnished around this time, although it is unclear if this was because it was in limited use, or because fittings and furnishings were moved from castle to castle with the owner as he traveled, or if the castle was simply being refurnished.