" 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.

Notable later releases included Free Kitten and Bis while the commercial success of Cornershop from 1997 rewarded the label's long-term support.

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.

That year, Taylor also became the production director for Frontline Records and went on to produce many of the label's releases.

The multiple Black Flag albums, along with the double album releases Zen Arcade and Double Nickels on the Dime by Hüsker Dü and the Minutemen, respectively, stretched the label's resources.

His band also delivered several shorter anonymous performances for the label's " Little Wonder " line of 90-second-long budget releases.

The label actually exists mostly as an imprint for current releases from Social Distortion and solo albums by Mike Ness, along with the administration of the label's back catalog.

Factory branched out, with Factory Benelux being run as an independent label in conjunction with Les Disques du Crepuscule, and Factory US organising distribution for the UK label's releases in America.

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.

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

The label's name was also printed as " Zang Tumb Tuum " and " Zang Tuum Tumb " on various releases.

Eventually the label's roster expanded to include releases by Helmet, the Melvins, The Cows, Helios Creed, Chokebore, Servotron and others.

Records is a record label that stretches over 25 years with over 210 releases, from vinyl to DVD, the label's large roster is internationally distributed and has over 100 releases in circulation and 200 releases available digitally.

The two parted ways after only a couple of single releases, due to the band's refusal to play by the label's rules.

Porter left Stax in 1979, and the label's new releases slowed to a trickle.

Nonetheless, the Vogue Down Homers releases are considered among the more collectable of the label's releases.

To date, the label's best selling releases have been Gorilla Biscuits ' Start Today, Inside Out's No Spiritual Surrender and the In-Flight Program compilation.

Many of the label's releases were also produced by Bob Last.

Fast Product's releases challenged pop music conventions ( hence the label's early monikers: " difficult fun " and " mutant pop "), and through its releases and marketing invoked a DIY punk spirit and generally socialist political outlook.

There were a number of new releases, as well as a compilation album and a series of gigs in London under the ' Worlds of Possibility ' banner, to celebrate the label's first decade in October of that year.

* Paramount Album Discography mostly on later Paramount ; has some of the label's history wrong

Tennessee mostly released country music, but the label's biggest hit was " Down Yonder ", a ragtime piano performance by Del Wood in 1950.

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.

* Vando: Owned by Van McCoy, five singles and one album were released under the label's C / P distribution, mostly by Chris Bartley

The label's music was mostly recorded at Willie Mitchell's Royal Studios, located in a renovated movie theater in South Memphis.

At the label's peak around 2000, it was the main competitor of Resistance Record, and they had grown close to the neo-Nazi White Revolution group, which mostly involves people who have left the troubled National Alliance.

Formerly known as Def American Recordings ( usually simplified as Def American ), some of the label's roster consist or consisted of Slayer, the Black Crowes, ZZ Top, Danzig, Trouble, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, and System of a Down.

The label's first band, the Backstreet Boys, consisted of five unknown performers selected by Lou in a $ 3 million talent search.

A fact literally translated by the label's logo, which consisted of a fly within a wire-frame cube.

Carter did not actually record under his own name until the label's revival in the 1980s, but played double bass on many other musicians ' sessions.

In 2008, Universal Music was set to reissue Running in the Family in the label's ' Deluxe Edition ' format, which takes a single disc album and turns it into a double disc package with previously unreleased bonus material.

Twenty of the label's artists were asked to compile a single CD of their work for the label ( Garbarek and Jarrett's compilations are double CDs ).

Without needing to get a label's approval, they were able to release a 25-track " deluxe edition " double album Barenaked Ladies Are Me, as well as releasing the album as two separate single albums, as well as a variety of other formats.

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.

The label's strong relationship with Belle & Sebastian enabled them in 1999 to sign Stuart David's side-project Looper, and Isobel Campbell's solo project The Gentle Waves, releasing albums for each that same year, along with a string of EPs and singles for their entire roster.

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.

Gaye was one of many who shaped the sound and success of Motown Records in the 1960s, becoming that label's top-selling solo artist of that decade with a string of hits including " How Sweet It Is ( To Be Loved By You )", " Ain't That Peculiar ", " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " and his duet singles with singers such as Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell.

Neither of their singles reached mainstream success and the group eventually settled as background session vocalists for the label's star acts, including Chuck Berry, Etta James and Diddley.

Between 1964 and 1967, singles like " Wild One " ( US # 34 ), " Nowhere to Run " ( US # 8 ; UK # 26 ), " You've Been in Love Too Long " ( US # 36 ), " My Baby Loves Me " ( US # 22 ; R & B # 3 ), " I'm Ready for Love " ( US # 9 ; R & B # 2 ; UK # 29 ) and " Jimmy Mack " ( US # 10 ; R & B # 1 ; UK # 21 ) kept The Vandellas on the map as one of the label's top acts.

Between 1960 and 1963, Melson recorded several singles of his own ( the best known being " Hey Mister Cupid ") for Hickory Records and also through Acuff-Rose Music wrote songs for some of that label's other artists including Dan Folger.

All of Cash Money's albums and singles in this period were solely produced by the label's in-house producer, Mannie Fresh.

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.

In addition, Appel's group The Applejacks functioned as the de facto Cameo house band for the first few years of the company's existence, serving as backing musicians for the label's vocalists as well as issuing a handful of instrumental singles on their own.

* Sentar: Owned by the families of pop group The New Colony Six ( the label's only group ), four singles and one album were released under Sentar's Cameo / Parkway distribution

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.

The label's early releases included singles and albums by acts such as Flowered Up, Saint Etienne, East Village and Manic Street Preachers.

Although the label released a total of 48 singles before it ceased operation in 1965, The Beatles records were the label's only million-sellers.

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.

1992 saw the label's first UK Top 40 singles chart entry-Sonz of a Loop Da Loop Eras ' Far Out-a piano-led breakbeat track which reached number thirty-six in February.

Tav Falco's Panther Burns and Alex Chilton helped create new interest in her career in the 1980s when they began covering some of her Moon label's old singles such as " Dateless Night ", a song she originally wrote in the 1950s for Florida artist Allen Page.

The 50's Rock on the Moon of Memphis, Tennessee + an Oddity, a compilation album of the label's 1950s singles, was released on vinyl in the early 1980s and was later sold on compact disc until her death in 2004.

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.

It is the second compilation of the band's singles released by RCA in just three years, following 2001's Best of the Cowboy Junkies, and is part of the label's Platinum and Gold Collection series of discount-priced singles anthologies.

This announcement also stated that Bucky Covington, Kevin Fowler, Tyler Dickerson, and Rascal Flatts would be transferred to other branches of Disney Music Group ; in addition, a promotion team managed Covington's and Fowler's singles which were on the charts at the time of the label's closure.

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