'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.

Although the label's music has never reflected just a single genre or underground music movement, it is arguably most notable for releasing the work of various riot grrrl bands during the mid -' 90s, some of which, especially the aforementioned Bikini Kill, generated a good deal of press attention.

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.

Throughout this period, The Vandellas had also become one of the label's most popular performing acts.

The majority of the label's releases shared a punk-pop sensibility, with Elastica being their most successful signing, before the label eventually folded in 2001.

The label's most significant acquisition, however, came in 1983, when Davis signed Warwick's cousin ( and Franklin's Goddaughter ) Whitney Houston.

Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight was imprisoned, and most of the label's acts tried to leave.

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 ).

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

This prefix would continue to be used through most of the label's album catalogue.

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

Dr. Dre Presents the Aftermath was released towards the year's end, featuring artists who were amongst the label's first signees ( most of the acts featured, however, quickly became disassociated with the company ).

Racic in particular, as a record producer and co-collaborator with many of the artists on the label, was integral to much of Volition's output during most of the label's existence and was, to some extent, its unofficial " house producer ".

Releases from this later period included the Scientists " Swampland " ( which was actually the b-side of the single, with the a-side being " This Is My Happy Hour ") and God's " My Pal ", one of the label's most popular releases, as well as titles by Ollie Olsen's band NO, Harem Scarem, various compilations such as the Asleep At The Wheel collection of ( mostly unsigned ) Melbourne bands, and the well-received Hard To Beat, a double album tribute to the Stooges, featuring many Australian acts.

The label's output is often controversial even among longstanding fans of free jazz and free improvisation, partly because some recent releases feature significant editing and overdubbing ( both were often looked down upon by earlier experimental musicians who thought that such recording studio antics somehow betrayed the ideal of live improvised music ), and also because much of the music released on Erstwhile has left behind most resemblances to earlier generations of free jazz and free improvisation.

Perhaps the most useful survey of the label's aesthetic and history up to 2002 remains Dan Warburton's review of AMPLIFY02: Balance.

Its most successful recording artist was Sammi Smith who also recorded the label's very first single.

In 1980, the label's most famous act, the Bee Gees, filed a $ 200 million lawsuit against both RSO and Stigwood, claiming mismanagement.

His debut album for No Limit, Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told, was the most successful release in the label's history at the time, as it sold over half a million copies in its first week and was certified double platinum in less than three months.

Although initially they didn't make much impact outside of the region, they would become the label's most well known artists.

The label's LV monogram appears on most of its products, ranging from luxury trunks and leather goods to ready-to-wear, shoes, watches, jewelry, accessories, sunglasses, and books.

Guitarist Marty Friedman ( ex-Megadeth, ex-Cacophony ), one of the label's most successful artists, first appeared on the album Unsung Guitar Heroes II in 1980 with the band Vixen.

The label's first release was the self-titled debut album of the psychedelic band Rotary Connection, whose members Chess described as " the hottest, most avant garde rock guys in Chicago ".

Summer would have several gold and platinum albums on Casablanca from 1975 – 1979, and become the label's most successful act on the singles chart.

covers and disc labels featured variations on this colour scheme ( a notable exception to the colour scheme is the John Coltrane album A Love Supreme, possibly the most iconic release of the label's catalogue, which uses the usual design in black and white only ); for most of the 1960s the front cover of Impulse!

Ironically, the Platters became the label's more successful act, the Penguins never scoring a second hit single.

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

After " Heat Wave " became the group's first million-seller, Martha and the Vandellas quickly rose to become one of the label's top draw both as recording stars and as a successful live act.

Nevertheless, Wells ' early hits as one of the label's few female solo acts did make her the label's first female star and its first fully successful solo artist.

The album topped the Billboard albums chart, went on to be certified quadruple platinum, and arguably became the label's first successful release.

Mann and Lowe wrote many of the label's early singles, while Mann and Appell also became a successful songwriting team that was responsible for many of the label's hits, particularly after Lowe cut back on his songwriting ( c. 1961 / 62 ) to attend to the business of running the label.

Taylor also set the scene for the label's most successful period with his far-sighted signing of another former Atlantic artist, saxophonist and composer John Coltrane, who had also risen to fame during his stint with Miles Davis in the 1950s.

Bill Cosby broke through soon after and he continued the label's dream run with comedy LPs into the late 1960s, releasing a string of highly successful albums on Warner Bros. over the next six years, alongside his groundbreaking career as a TV actor.

In 1977 their now-legendary Rumours took both group and label to even greater heights — it generated a string of international hit singles and became the most successful album in the label's history ; it is currently ranked the 11th biggest selling album of all time and as of 2009 was estimated to have sold than 40 million copies.

The label's most successful act was Funkadelic and its biggest hit was " The Americans " recorded by local news reporter Byron MacGregor in 1974.

A vanity label ( see related topic on vanity press ) is an informal name given sometimes to a record label founded as a wholly or partially owned subsidiary of another, larger and better established ( at least at the time of the vanity label's founding ) record label, where the subsidiary label is ( at least nominally ) controlled by a successful recording artist, designed to allow this artist to release music by other artists he or she admires.

Creating a vanity label can be an attractive idea for the parent label primarily as a " perk " to keep a successful artist on the label's roster happy, providing an ego boost and a venue to bring fellow artists to the public's attention.

The Stax label's most successful artist of the 1960s, Otis Redding, was influenced by fellow Georgia native Little Richard and the more cosmopolitan sounds of Mississippi-born Sam Cooke.

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.

Newell was the head of EMI's Columbia label for many of the label's most successful years.

In March 1969, the British music magazine, NME reported that Motown Records vice-president Barney Ales had visited London to sign the Pretty Things as the U. S. label's first British act.

While LaRosa was unable to sustain his early successes, later Cadence artists included Andy Williams and the label's biggest act of all, The Everly Brothers whose hits such as " Bye Bye Love " and " Wake Up Little Susie " were produced by Bleyer in Nashville with country studio musicians led by Chet Atkins.

After winning a small local talent contest in 1968 to see who could sound the most like the Supremes, they packed their bags and headed for England, where they signed to the Parrot label and in the fall of 1968 supported the label's star act Tom Jones on his European tour.

The Corporation was a collection of songwriters and record producers assembled in 1969 by Motown label head Berry Gordy to create hit records for the label's new act, The Jackson 5.

As Motown's first group ( also the label's first million-selling act ), they were first on the show, singing four of their greatest hits, " Shop Around ", " You've Really Got a Hold on Me ", " The Tears of a Clown ", and " Going To A Go-Go ".

In 2010, Bella Union entered the USA market, working in partnership with the Yep Roc Label Group who will act as the label's background team in North America.

Davis believed in the marketability of the group, and scheduled O-Town to be the label's debut act.

The label's first act 8 Ball & MJG released their second album for the label, Ridin High.

And while Motown's first signing act, Marv Johnson, was one of the label's earliest hitmakers, most of his music was released to United Artists, while Motown Recordings and its imprints Tamla, Motown and Gordy, had still not produced much success.

The label's final release, titled Barrel Full of Monkees and showcasing its flagship act, appeared in 1971 but sold poorly.