He was also affiliated with Andre Harrell's Uptown Records as he was featured on the label posse cut " Uptown is Kickin ' it " as well as producing for Uptown Artist and friend Heavy-D and the Boyz The next year, Marl also recorded a diss response to " Roxanne Roxanne " by UTFO, with female emcee Roxanne Shanté.

* 1969: Uptown Conversation ( Embryo Records )

* Andre Harrell ( born 1960 ), founder of Uptown Records.

In 1994, Busby was replaced by Andre Harrell, the entrepreneur behind Uptown Records.

* Uptown Records

Frustrated with the distribution limitation of a small record label, they signed to Elektra Records after their final release for Sub Pop, an EP of soul cover songs called Uptown Avondale ( 1992 ).

He talked Uptown Records CEO Andre Harrell into listening to the tape, who was impressed enough to sign the group.

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By then, Jones had recorded other songs for Uptown Records, a subsidiary of Capitol / EMI.

Under the guidance of manager Gene Griffin, the group signed to Andre Harrell's Uptown Records, and released their self-titled debut album Guy in June 1988.

Although " Sweet Young Thing " gained strong airplay around San Francisco during the Spring of 1967, and has since been covered by the Australian band JET, it was poorly promoted by Uptown Records.

After securing distribution deal through MCA Records the compilation album, " Uptown Is Kickin ' It " was released.

Uptown Records was subsequently renamed to Uptown Entertainment.

The same year, Uptown was repositioned to operate under the newly established Universal Records umbrella.

By 1999, Uptown Records was absorbed into Universal Records.

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* Uptown Records at Discogs

* Uptown Records and Andre Harrell at NJS4E

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With this combination, Orbison recorded three new songs, the most notable of which was " Uptown ", penned by himself and Melson.

At the age of four, she was spotted by an agent in a restaurant in Uptown Manhattan.

The album was certified gold and the attendant single " Uptown " reached No. 5 on the Billboard Dance chart and No. 5 on the Hot Soul Singles charts.

Finally, a new arena in Uptown ( what would eventually become the Charlotte Bobcats Arena, later the Time Warner Cable Arena ) was included in a non-binding referendum for a larger arts-related package, and Shinn withdrew his application to move the team.

The only release during this period was a single, " The Big Man and the Scream Team Meet the Barmy Army Uptown ", a collaboration with Irvine Welsh and On-U Sound, which caused controversy due to offensive lyrics about Glasgow Rangers FC and their fan base.

An outdoor town center was recently opened named ' Uptown Altamonte ' which marks the central business district of the city.

Uptown Gaffney began to languish after I-85 was built in the county as industries located near the new highway.

Kreviazuk's " Time " was played in the credits of the movie Uptown Girls, and featured in an episode of the MTV reality show, Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, the pilot episode of the ABC romantic comedy / drama Men in Trees, the CBS drama Joan of Arcadia, and the ABC family movie Lucky 7.

In the late 1960s, Fulwood was the house drummer for the Uptown Theater in Philadelphia when he met guitarist Eddie Hazel.

Bud, though underage, soon was exposed to the exciting, musically adventurous atmosphere at Uptown House, an after-hours venue that was practically around the corner from where he lived.

This period was eventually commemorated with critically acclaimed LPs including King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown ( 1976 ) and Hugh Mundell's classic Africa Must be Free by 1983.

The band was formed in October 1967, comprising Brendan ' Brush ' Shiels on bass guitar ( born in 1946, Dublin, Ireland-formerly of The Uptown Band ), Noel ' Nollaig ' Bridgeman on drums ( born in 1947, Dublin-currently with Van Morrison ), Bernard ' Bernie ' Cheevers on lead guitar ( born in 1948, Dublin-formerly of The Intruders ), and Phil Lynott on vocals.

After the success of " Uptown ", a pregnant Girard was replaced by Dolores " LaLa " Brooks.

Shields was born into an Irish-American family in Uptown New Orleans, on the same block where jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden lived.

Jackson was born to a poor African American family in Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana on June 5, 1876.

McKernan was a participant in the predecessor groups leading to the formation of the Grateful Dead, beginning with the Zodiacs and Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions.

Moon Landrieu was born in Uptown New Orleans, the son of Joseph G. Landrieu ( owner of a small corner grocery ) and the former Loretta Bechtel.

An American adaptation, or plagiarism, was published in New York under the title Raped on the Elevated Railway, a True Story of a Lady who was First Ravished and then Flagellated on the Uptown Express, illustrating the Perils of Travel in the New Machine Age set in New York.

Gekas got another rude surprise when Holden visited African American neighborhoods such as Uptown and Allison Hill after finding out that Gekas had never set foot in these neighborhoods in his congressional career.

Uptown New Orleans gangs tend to have more sculptural and abstract African-inspired suits ; downtown gangs have more pictorial suits with heavy Native American influences.

Eugene Thurman Upshaw, Jr. ( August 15, 1945 – August 20, 2008 ), also known as " Uptown Gene ", was an American football player for the Oakland Raiders of the American Football League and later the NFL, later the executive director of the National Football League Players ' Association ( NFLPA ).

Father MC ( born Timothy Brown ) African American rapper Timothy Brown achieved success in the early 1990s on the Uptown Records label.

* Uptown ( film ), 2009 American independent drama film written and directed by Brian Ackley

SMW was the birthplace of the controversial " Gangstas " gimmick, where the African American wrestlers New Jack, Mustafa and " Uptown " D ' Lo Brown would cut promos about activist Medgar Evers and O. J.

New York Undercover ( whose working title during development was Uptown Undercover ) is notable for being the first police drama on American television to feature two people of color in the starring roles.