After considerable success on Exit / A & M, The 77s soon found themselves signed to Island Records ( which, like A & M would be bought by PolyGram in 1989 ) and on the road to what Mike Roe would refer facetiously as " teenage stardom.

The band found themselves with a recording opportunity when Mercury Records wished to use the name Blank Records for one of its subdivisions and offered Danzig thirty hours of free studio time in exchange for the trademark to the name.

EMI continued to release their back catalogue and unreleased songs on two more albums but the band themselves didn't bring out a new album until 2005 when they released Livin ' in the City, still under Sanctuary Records.

During the song " The Juggla ", Violent J addressed the audience as Juggalos, and the positive response resulted in Bruce and Shaggy 2 Dope using the word thereafter to refer to themselves and their friends, family, and fans, including other Psychopathic Records artists.

* Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel name themselves Tom and Jerry and begin their recording career, signing with Sid Prosen of Big Records.

In the summer of 1980 the Cats found themselves being courted by the elite of the music world including Virgin Records, Stiff Records and Arista Records.

Having been released from their contract with Virgin Records, Simple Minds decided to musically reinvent themselves once again, this time reaching back to their Kraftwerk-inspired, early electronic pop days.

Finding themselves on the cusp of an electronic new wave in British pop-music, they released a one-off single, " Electricity ", with celebrated independent label Factory Records.

Forming a band in 1975, the three of them initially called themselves The Catch, and released a single " Borderline / Black Blood " in 1977 on Logo Records, which failed to chart.

With the success of this song, the group's name was changed to Salt-N-Pepa ( which they had called themselves in the first verse of the song ) and they signed to the independent Next Plateau Records to record a full-length album.

With the help of DJ and club owner Reb Foster, the Crossfires signed to the newly formed White Whale Records and adhering to the prevailing musical trend, re-branded themselves as a folk rock group under the name " the Tyrtles ," the intentional misspelling inspired by the Byrds and the Beatles.

They did not face the public again until the end of 1994, spending the intervening time in and out of studios in Wales-where they recorded a second album, Second Coming-and fighting in court to release themselves from their contract with Silvertone Records.

After Lucifer's Heritage signed a contract with No Remorse Records, the band changed their name to Blind Guardian to avoid any speculations about Satanism ( in a bio it was stated that they also wanted to distance themselves from the black metal movement, as their demos were placed in with black metal albums at local record shops ).

But the upshot was that, even after Quality Records revealed the band was " really " Chad Allan & The Expressions, disc jockeys still announced the group as Guess Who ?, effectively forcing the band to rename themselves.

Aco seems to have made no recordings themselves, instead taking masters from both British and US Aeolian, as well as leasing masters from U. S. based Gennett Records.

In April 1930, Warner Bros. bought Brunswick Records and, for a time, managed the company themselves.

Vogue Records was a short-lived United States-based record label of the 1940s, noted for the artwork embedded in the records themselves.

When The Jackson 5 parted with their record label Motown in 1976, they signed to CBS Records and rebranded themselves as The Jacksons.

The two along with bassist Greg Lopez put the record out themselves under the Robot Records moniker.

Despite their growing momentum, 30 Seconds to Mars soon found themselves at war with their label, Virgin Records.

Afterwards, the band found themselves in a bidding war among record labels, and after a showcase in Los Angeles, Kevin Cadogan and Stephan Jenkins signed as artists professionally known as Third Eye Blind with Sylvia Rhone of Elektra Records because they believed it offered the most artistic freedom.

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.

The version with Bardot was issued in 1986 and became a popular download hit in 2006 when Universal Records made its back catalogue available to purchase online, with this version of the song ranking as the third most popular download.

Records of Classical boxing activity disappeared after the fall of the Western Roman Empire when the wearing of weapons became common once again and interest in fighting with the fists waned.

Terry Melcher first made a brief attempt to become a surf music singing star, then became a staff producer for Columbia Records in the 1960s, and was famous for producing some latter-day recordings by The Beach Boys and The Byrds.

Records like " Play At Your Own Risk " by Planet Patrol, " One More Shot " by C Bank, " Al-Naafiyish ( The Soul )" by Hashim, and " I. O. U. " by Freeez became hits.

Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist from the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943.

In 1982, Marrow met producer William Strong from Saturn Records, who recorded his first single, " Cold Wind Madness ", also known as " The Coldest Rap ", which became an underground success, becoming popular even though radio stations did not play it due to the song's hardcore lyrics.

In announcing the end of their relationship with Elektra Records, the band became one of the few groups in history to own and control their publishing and catalogue of recorded masters.

In the Millenium Edition of the " Guinness Book of World Records ", Hum Aapke Hain Kaun became the Bollywood's highest grossing film.

The chorus of the chant became the title of a compilation album from Anagram Records ( Catalog #: GRAM 28 ) released in 1987.

In 1980, Lawhead became the manager of the successful Christian rock act Degarmo and Key and formed his own record company, Ariel Records.

* 1977: Jazz vocalist Lorez Alexandria recorded an uptempo version for her album From Broadway To Hollywood which subsequently became popular on the UK jazz dance and soul scenes, eventually being rereleased as a 7 inch single on Jazzman Records in 2000.

This new configuration became very popular in the Boston area, and by the fall of 1971, enthusiastic word-of-mouth led to the Modern Lovers ' first exposure to a major label when Stuart Love of Warner Bros. Records contacted them and organized the band's first multi-track session at Intermedia Studio in Boston.

The performance — featuring Spider Stacy repeatedly smashing himself over the head with a beer tray ( in the manner of Bob Blackman's infamous " Mule Train / Mule Tray ")— became a favourite with the viewers, but Stiff Records refused to release it as a single, feeling it was too late for it to help Red Roses for Me ( in fact Stiff Records was by then in deep financial trouble ).

Seymour Stein, the president of Sire Records – in London on business – heard John Peel play Teenage Kicks on BBC Radio 1 and became interested in the band.

With the success of the studio's 1965 Broadway play The Great Race, as well as its soundtrack, Warner Bros. Records became a profitable subsidiary.

As the band became the flag bearer for the local scene, a larger independent label, Slash Records, signed the band to issue its first LP.

* Records of the superstition are rarely found before the 20th century, when it became extremely common.

According to the Guinness World Book of Records ( 2005 ), Aniston ( along with her female costars ) became the highest paid TV actress of all time with her $ 1 million-per-episode paycheck for the tenth season of Friends.

Jordan was the first artist to be signed by Bruce Lundvall when the latter became president of Blue Note Records in 1985 and, consequently, Magic Touch was the first release ( not reissue ) of the rejuvenated label.

During the late 1990s, Omaha became nationally known as the birthplace of Saddle Creek Records, and the subsequent " Omaha Sound " was born from their bands ' collective style.

On 17 December 2006, The Macau Tower started operating a proper bungee jump, which became the " Highest Commercial Bungee Jump In The World " according to the Guinness Book of Records.

After hearing the two records worth of material John had recorded of John's songs, Capitol Records became interested in the music.