When label founder and president Seymour Stein heard his demo, he said, " He sounds like Bob Dylan.

This proved disastrous in terms of the band's career, in particular as the band were being actively courted by Seymour Stein who thought they could become massive stars in the USA.

Three members of the band signed the proposed contract on this date, with the understanding that Feargal Sharkey and Michael Bradley would discuss negotiations to the contract with Seymour Stein in person in London.

The band admired label head Seymour Stein, who had managed the Ramones, and Stein recruited Tommy Ramone as producer for their first major label album.

The tracks were recorded at Blue Horizon House, 165 West 74th Street, home of Sire Records, but Seymour Stein, president of Sire, rejected the demo, stating " there's nothing there.

Thereafter, he signed to a solo record deal with Sire Records label boss Seymour Stein and variously worked with Andy Paley, Russ Titelman and Landy's girlfriend as co-authors on the new material.

Figures moved to Boston in 1985 and was signed by Seymour Stein of Sire Records soon afterward.

McCann's version of the song was sent to Seymour Stein, president of the Asylum Records label, who signed her to a recording contract in 1997.

* Lipset, Seymour M. and Stein Rokkan, eds.

The label was founded in 1966 as Sire Productions by Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer, each investing ten thousand dollars into the new company.

The band signed in 1994 with Seymour Stein to Sire Records.

He is best known for helping launch the career of one-time girlfriend Madonna by presenting a demo to Seymour Stein of Sire Records.

A crucial acquisition in this field — and one which would soon proved to be of enormous importance to the company — was the New York-based Sire Records, founded in 1966 by Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer.

Sire Records co-founder Seymour Stein approached Hart at this juncture and eventually signed him to Sire shortly thereafter.

In 2002 Seymour Stein of Sire Records reconnected with Hart.

Joining Cohen at Warner are his former co-workers at Island Def Jam, Kevin Liles and Julie Greenwald, as well as older industry figures including Elektra founder Jac Holzman and Sire Records ' Seymour Stein.

She was formerly married to and advised Seymour Stein, president of Sire Records and vice president of Warner Bros. Records, who was instrumental in launching the careers of Madonna, The Ramones, Talking Heads and The Pretenders.

Seymour Stein ( born 1942 in Brooklyn, New York ) is an entrepreneur in the music industry who has been a part of the business since getting his first job as a clerk for Billboard magazine in 1958.

Seymour Stein was formerly married to the late music promoter and real estate executive Linda Stein ; together, the couple had two daughters before they divorced, on amicable terms, in the late 1970s.

* Seymour Stein is the subject of an eponymous song by the Scottish musical group Belle and Sebastian.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

The name was changed to Baldwin in honor of Dr. Abel Seymour Baldwin, the president of the Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central Railroad, a railroad that ran from Lake City to Jacksonville.

When Harry Seymour Ross was appointed the fourth president of Emerson College in 1931, the first course in radio broadcasting was taught by the program director of WEEI, a Boston AM radio station.

Burnet's last public service came in 1868, when he was appointed as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention which nominated Horatio Seymour for president.

On September 10, 1912, West Tennessee Normal School opened in Memphis ; its first president was Seymour A. Mynders.

He was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for vice president in 1868, running with Horatio Seymour.

Lincoln and his vice president Hannibal Hamlin are defeated in the 1864 elections by Horatio Seymour, and another Republican president will not be elected until 1880.

Dillon made his nephew Seymour Weller president of the new company " Société Vinicole de la Gironde " ( later Domaine Clarence Dillon S. A .), who held the position for five decades.

In October 2005, the Hebrew Actors Union was declared defunct by its parent union, the 4As, following the 2002 death of its 91-year-old president, Seymour Rexite.

At age 52, Seymour succeeded James Rowland Angell as the university's 15th president in October 1937.

After his retirement as president, Seymour continued his involvement with the university as curator of the papers of Edward M. House at the Yale University Library.

Gibson, an official of the Ontario Bank, was elected president, and Charles Seymour, the secretary and treasurer.

From 1887 to 1901 Seymour was chairman of the managing committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and was president of the Archaeological Institute of America from 1903.

In 1910 he succeeded Sir Seymour Haden as president.

Jack's supervisor and the public relations vice president, Jane Caldwell ( Jane Seymour ), also tells Jack exactly the same thing as Jack learns that Jane is a shady vixen who's hell-bent on sleeping her way to the top by seducing every man she meets to get ahead in what she sees as a man's world.

That year proved a good one for the Softs, as Seymour, again supported by a unified Democratic Party, narrowly defeated Hunt in a gubernatorial rematch, while Pierce, overwhelmingly elected president, appointed Marcy as his Secretary of State.

Among the imprints it distributed that were notable in these fields were Seymour Stein's Sire Records ( which Warner Bros. soon purchased ), Curtis Mayfield's Curtom, Norman Whitfield's Whitfield Records, Quincy Jones ' Qwest, Prince's Paisley Park, RFC Records ( formed in December 1978 when Ray Caviano became the executive director of Warner's disco division ), Tom Silverman's Tommy Boy Records ( another label Warner Bros. eventually took over ).

In November, Food Records ' A & R representative Andy Ross attended a Seymour performance that convinced him to court the group for his label.

In November, Food Records ' A & R representative Andy Ross attended a Seymour performance that convinced him to court the group for his label.

Seymour is the birthplace of former Indiana 9th District U. S. Representative Baron Hill, Texas lawyer Paul Eggers, singer John Mellencamp, Miss America 2009 Katie Stam, retired professional wrestler Rip Rogers, and Robert Shields whose personal diary earned him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.

The group signed to Avenue Records subsidiary label LAX ( MCA Records ), with a slightly altered lineup of: David Clayton-Thomas ( vocals, guitar ), Robert Piltch ( guitar ), David Piltch ( bass ), Richard Martinez ( keyboards ), Bruce Cassidy ( trumpet, flugelhorn ), Earl Seymour ( sax, flute ), Vernon Dorge ( sax, flute ) and a returning Bobby Economou on drums, and with producer and arranger Jerry Goldstein, recorded the album Nuclear Blues ( March 1980 ).

They recruited Nick Seymour to play bass guitar and Craig Hooper on guitar, Hooper left as they secured a recording contract with Capitol Records in the US.

He quit college due to the increasing success of his band at the time, Seymour, who later changed its name to Blur because the recording company, Food Records, thought Seymour was too ' student-ish '.

Seymour also released a solo album, Import / Export, under the name Open Mouth, through Repeat Records in May 2007.

Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York.

Vanguard Classics was sold after Seymour Solomon's death to Artemis Records, which reactivated the company with new releases by Leon Fleisher and Gil Shaham.