The label's first release was ( Super Numeri member ) Pop Levi's single " Blue Honey " in September 2006, and was followed by Pop Levi's debut album The Return To Form Black Magick Party in February 2007.

" KRS-101 ( the label's first release ) was in fact a split 7 " spoken-word record with Kathleen Hanna and Slim Moon ; other " Wordcore " releases followed.

The label's first releases were traditional " hot " jazz and boogie woogie, and the label's first hit was a performance of " Summertime " by soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet, which Bechet had been unable to record for the established companies.

" Organist Jimmy Smith was signed in 1956, and performed on the label's first 12 " LP album of new recordings.

In 1982 Minneapolis hardcore group Hüsker Dü became the label's first non-West Coast signing.

A lavish media party was also held at Chislehurst Caves in Kent, England on 31 October 1974, to celebrate the label's first UK release by the Pretty Things, Silk Torpedo ( the first US release for Swan Song was the self-titled debut album from Bad Company in June 1974 ).

The label's first release was a various artists compilation entitled The Everlastin ' Living Jesus Music Concert, in 1971.

Its first release for the label was Bad Religion's 1981 self-titled EP, followed by their debut How Could Hell Be Any Worse ?, which was also the label's first full-length release.

The label's first LP was Throbbing Gristle's debut LP The Second Annual Report which was limited to 786 copies.

Alexakis produced the label's first release, the 2002 album Volume by Flipp.

* Revella Hughes, soprano featured on one of the label's first releases

She had the label's first commercially successful records, and remained their best seller.

Monument Records ' first release in October 1958, was also the label's first hit.

The label's first EP was Lowe's 1977 four-track release Bowi, apparently named in response to David Bowie's contemporaneous LP Low.

Piccadilly's release of Brown's " Crazy Mixed Up Kid " in April 1961 was the label's first single.

In August 2005, Roadrunner Records reissued their self-titled first album as part of the label's 25th anniversary celebration.

The first version featured an orange golf shirt on the cover and was produced by My Records ( owned by Joey Cape from Lagwagon ) as the label's debut album.

The label's first full-length release was Negative FX's self-titled album, which was recorded in 1982.

The first bands performing the Founded in the 1960s, Love Records was one of the first domestic record labels dedicated to Finnish rock music, even though the label's roster also included jazz and political songs.

" It was time for a major label to take over ", according to the label's co-owner Stark.

Drive-Thru's relationship with MCA Records ensured that the smaller label's more popular bands would be picked up by the major.

His work at Mute was as producer, co-producer, or engineer with each of the label's major acts, including Depeche Mode, Vince Clarke and Erasure, whose debut album Wonderland ( 1986 ) and its followup The Circus ( 1987 ) he engineered.

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 ).

Frustrated, the band finally decided to sign to Sony Records, on the proviso that they be allowed to release their music through their own Furtive label-thus regaining a higher degree of creative control while still enjoying the benefit of the major label's distribution and advertising clout.

Newhart provided the label's next major commercial breakthrough — in May 1960, three months after the success of " Cathy's Clown ", Newhart's debut album The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart went straight to # 1 in the U. S., staying at the top for fourteen weeks, charting for more than two years and selling more than 600, 000 copies.

The label was formed by Amy Grant's managers ( with Harrell being her brother-in-law ), with the label's original intent to give new artist Kathy Troccoli a home after being rejected by the major labels at the time.

The parent label also hopes that the vanity label's association with the famous artist will entice that artist's audience to purchase other records on the vanity label, although only a relatively small number of new artists introduced by vanity labels have gone on to become major successes in their own right.

The group was the first major successful act of Motown Records after The Miracles and were its first significant successful girl group on the label's early years after the release of the number-one single, " Please Mr. Postman ", one of the first number-one singles recorded by an all-female vocal group and the first by a Motown recording act.

The label's major hits included: " TSOP ( The Sound Of Philadelphia )" by MFSB, featuring The Three Degrees, 1974 ( which was later adopted as the theme of the TV dance-music show " Soul Train "); " Ain't No Stoppin ' Us Now " by McFadden & Whitehead ( writers and producers with the label ), 1979 ; " Backstabbers " and " Love Train " by The O ' Jays, 1972 / 3 ; " If You Don't Know Me By Now " and " The Love I Lost " by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, 1972 / 3 ; " Me And Mrs Jones " by Billy Paul, 1972 ; " When Will I See You Again " by The Three Degrees, 1974 ; and " You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine " by Lou Rawls, 1976.

In 2006 the band signed to major label Capitol, however they were soon dropped during the label's merger with Virgin.

His fourth album, 1999's How Lucky I Am, failed to produce any major singles, and he was dropped from the label's roster.

In the late 1990s and into the 2000s as the advent of MP3 files and digital download sites such as Apple's iTunes changed the recording industry, an indie Neo-soul scene soon emerged from the urban Underground soul scenes of London, NYC, Philadelphia, Chicago and L. A., primarily due to commercial radio and the major label's biased focus on the marketing, promotion & Airplay of Pop and hip hop music during this period.

Since the mid-1990s, Little Walter DeVenne has remastered many of the label's reissues, and the company has also made extensive use of the in-house mastering and restoration services of the major labels from whom they license material.

The first single release was " One Of Us ", which did not enjoy their previous major label's promotion efforts.

Having spent many years in obscurity, Nancarrow benefited from the 1969 release of an entire album of his work by Columbia Records as part of a brief flirtation of the label's classical division with modern avant-garde music.

While the band's management had involvement in the artwork of the release, the overall finished product was disappointing due to the label's poor quality control.

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.

The label's greatest pay-dirt achievement came with the release Thriller, the 1982 album by Michael Jackson, which went on to achieve approximately one hundred million in worldwide sales, becoming the biggest selling album in history.

The label's first release was his 12 " single " Robot L. O. V. E.

The label's first release was a vinyl compilation called Senseless Death ( NB 001 ) featuring US hardcore bands like Attitude, Sacred Denial, Impulse Manslaughter and others.

The album was the Sub Pop label's most successful release since Nirvana's debut album Bleach.

The label's first release was Gerardo's Mo ' Ritmo.

Wilson claimed she had no knowledge of the label's financial problems and was deceived into signing with them for the release.

It was the new label's first non-compilation release.

The label's original intent was to facilitate the release of Swans music, but in recent years it has grown to host Gira's current band, the Angels of Light, as well as a number of other unique bands and artists, including: Akron / Family, Devendra Banhart, Lisa Germano, Ulan Bator, and Mi and L ' au.

In 2011 Film Score Monthly issued a two-disc release of the soundtrack, with the complete score on disc one and the original soundtrack album on disc two ( representing the latter's first North American CD issue ); this was the label's final Jerry Goldsmith album.

Led Zeppelin's 2007 release Mothership and the soundtrack to the film Juno serve as the label's most recent successes.