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The label's CEO, Carl Severson signed the band without a contract simply to get the album out to the public because he thought the album " ruled ", and stated " I had a one-off deal and when I knew they wanted to go someplace bigger, I figured is was in my best interest, as their friend, to make the best thing happen for them.
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Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight was imprisoned, and most of the label's acts tried to leave.
It has also been announced that the Roadrunner office in The Netherlands is to close, and that the label's founder Cees Wessels is stepping down from his role of CEO.
Howie Klein, the CEO of Reprise Records, considered Wilco to be one of the label's core bands, but was offered a lucrative buy-out by AOL Time Warner.
As Private Music's President & CEO, Goldstein moved the offices from New York City to Los Angeles, hiring former publicist for U2, Tony Bennett and Warners ’ “ Musicians for Life ,” Karen Johnson, to expand the label's image and veteran-artists're-development.
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The label's biggest hits included " Treat Her Right " by Roy Head & The Traits, " Tell Me Why " by Norman Fox and The Rob Roys, and " Everlasting Love " by Carl Carlton.
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Though the group itself was never signed to the label, they were managed by Russell Simmons, produced by Rick Rubin ( who was co-founder of Def Jam, along with Simmons ), and often shared concert tour spotlight with acts on the label's roster.
The label's fortunes began to rise in 1962, when Martin signed rising new Liverpool band The Beatles.
" Organist Jimmy Smith was signed in 1956, and performed on the label's first 12 " LP album of new recordings.
The label's inaugural release was an ambitious triple LP recording of the 1973 Sunbury Pop Festival, and over the next few years they signed a number of important Australian acts of the period including Madder Lake and MacKenzie Theory.
In 1966 Ayler was signed to Impulse Records at the urging of John Coltrane, the label's star attraction at that time.
Rubin signed a distribution deal with Columbia / SME Records in 1997, which distributed the label's titles until 2001.
In 2009 Burke also put on his record label hat when his label, The One Entertainment Systems, which is headed by his daughter Victoria, who also was the label's A & R person, signed Clarence Fountain and Sam Butler and their most recent project, Stepping Up And Stepping Out.
Warwick had been personally signed and guided by the label's founder Clive Davis, who stated to Dionne " You may be ready to give the business up, but the business is not ready to give you up.
After changing their name to Manfred Mann at the behest of their label's producer John Burgess, the group signed with His Master's Voice in March 1963 and began their recorded output that July with the slow, bluesy instrumental single " Why Should We Not ?".
Young was signed to the then new label Polygon Records in 1950, one of the label's few stars alongside another newcomer, Petula Clark.
The label's most significant acquisition, however, came in 1983, when Davis signed Warwick's cousin ( and Franklin's Goddaughter ) Whitney Houston.
By the late 1990s, despite its reputation for dealing heavily in hip-hop, Jive signed pop acts Backstreet Boys, ' N Sync, and Britney Spears — all of whom achieved massive success as the 2000s dawned, and would become the three best-selling acts in the label's history.
A number of the label's past acts have either broken up ( such as Tsunami Bomb ), moved to other independent labels ( as in the cases of Ozma and Bigwig ), or signed to major labels ( most notably The Ataris ).
In 1960, Gordy signed an unknown named Mary Wells who became the fledgling label's first star, with Smokey Robinson penning her hits " You Beat Me to the Punch ", " Two Lovers ", and " My Guy ".
Among their accomplishments ; they are the first Sri Lankan group to be signed to an international record label ( Sony BMG ), and were an integral component in the label's entrance into the nation's music industry in 2002 / 2003.
Label heads Brian Brater and Jarret Myer then signed some of the top underground talent from the New York area, notably Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Hi-Tek and Company Flow, who went on to define the label's sound.
They were signed to Death Row Records in their early careers and were key to the label's success.
She signed with ForeFront Records, and took her stage name at the label's request.
The label's publishing arm, TVT Music Publishing signed songwriter / producers Scott Storch who won Top Producer of the Year for ASCAP in 2004, and Lil Jon who won Top Producer of the Year for BMI in 2005.
They later signed with Virgin Music America and Toshiba-EMI in Japan, due to that label's promises to break the group into the American market — something Sony was unwilling to do.
Died Pretty signed with Citadel and were managed by the label's owner John Needham.
After Snoop Lion was acquitted of murder charges on February 20, 1996, he and the mother of his son and their kennel of 20 pit bulls moved into a home in the hills of Claremont, California and by August 1996 Doggy Style Records, a subsidiary of Death Row Records, signed The Gap Band's Charlie Wilson as one of the record label's first artists.
Rollins owns his own music label called Bay Sluggas, Inc .; the label's first signed group is " The League.
The gig at King Tut's was a huge success and was seen by established Glasgow rockers Aereogramme, then signed to Chemikal Underground Records, who brought the duo to the label's attention.
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In addition to using Swan Song as a vehicle to promote their own albums, the band expanded the label's roster, signing artists such as Bad Company, The Pretty Things and Maggie Bell.
Their minimalist album sleeves and " non-image " ( the band rarely gave interviews and were known for performing short concert sets with no encores ) reflected the label's aesthetic of doing whatever the relevant parties wanted to do, including an aversion to including singles as album tracks.
's were the label's backing band for most of the classic hits that came out of Stax, by Sam and Dave, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, and many more.
Parry was concerned at the state of his label's top band, and became convinced that the solution was for The Cure to reinvent its musical style.
" The New York based Even Dozen Jug Band was the Elektra label's answer to the Kweskin band and featured ( among others ) Maria D ' Amato, Joshua Rifkin, David Grisman, Stefan Grossman, John Sebastian, and Steve Katz.
The Hi Records house band ( Hi Rhythm Section ) and producer Willie Mitchell developed a surging soul style heard in the label's 1970s hit recordings.
While officially the band still exists, and its well-known name was used in 2001 to promote a ' duel ' album pitting the two label's artists against each other, Kool Shen was quoted in 2004 saying " on a fini avec NTM en 98 " (" We were done with NTM in 1998 ").
The label's ads promoted the label itself more than any particular band.
Because of his label's early support, the band offered Bob Last the position as band manager.
Marilyn Manson ( band ) | Marilyn Manson in 1994, performing during the label's " A Night of Nothing " showcase of Nothing Records acts.
His band also delivered several shorter anonymous performances for the label's " Little Wonder " line of 90-second-long budget releases.
On June 10, 2006, the band announced that it had left Columbia Records due to the label's internal disintegration.
Since the band has permanently disbanded following the death of Sleazy, the label's plan is to re-release the original Throbbing Gristle albums ( The Second Annual Report, D. o. A: The Third and Final Report, 20 Jazz Funk Greats, Heathen Earth, and Greatest Hits ) on the label.
The Rare Earth band moved over to the label following the Rare Earth label's demise.
Discouraged with their label's failure to resolve the problems, and with both momentum and potential album sales lost, the band once again went on hiatus.
They released two albums, Yachtless and Moonproof on the US-based, Beserkley label before the label's UK operation went bankrupt in 1978 and the band disbanded.
The band played a few surprise shows in early 2000 to try to gain a label's attention but they were unsuccessful.
Slagel met with the band backstage and asked if they would like to be featured on the label's upcoming Metal Massacre III compilation, the band agreed.
" Gitter offered to sign the band to the label and felt that signing Killswitch Engage was the label's last chance to have any heavy metal bands on the roster.
With the assistance of Bird and Olson, the band addressed the label's concerns and released Calling Ov the Dead in late 1997, with American distribution following through Pendragon in 1998.
While Stax is renowned for its output of African-American music, the label was founded by two white businesspeople, Jim Stewart and his sister Estelle Axton ( STewart / AXton = Stax ) and featured several popular ethnically-integrated bands, including the label's house band, Booker T. & the M. G.
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