Matador Europe supervises the promotion, sales and marketing of Matador titles in Europe. The London-based office also licensed recordings from some of North America's most acclaimed new artists, M. Ward, Sleater-Kinney, Modest Mouse, and Superchunk to name a few. The roster has also grown with the label and has helped artists such as Yo La Tengo, Cat Power, Cornelius, Solex, Pizzicato Five, Helium and the Arsonists reach audiences worldwide. In 1994 Patrick Amory became Matador's label manager, and has since progressed to label President, as well as a partner of Lombardi and Cosloy.
History
Matador Records
Matador Records | History
Patrick Amory is Matador's label manager. Chris Lombardi and currently own by  Beggars Group Chris Lombardi Chris Lombardi
yo la tengo i can hear the heart beating as one full album
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True, its their eighth studio album.
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when was it released?
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April 22, 1997.
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what was the name of the record label that released it?
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Matador Records.
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how was this album received by public?
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It received considerable acclaim from music critics.
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can you mention a few songs from the album?
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"Autumn Sweater", "Sugarcube", and "Little Honda".
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who owns the above mentioned record company?
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In 1992 Matador released Pavement's debut studio album Slanted and Enchanted. In 1993, not only did Matador release Liz Phair's critically and commercially successful debut album, "Exile in Guyville", but the label also began a partnership with Atlantic Records which lasted for several years. In 1996, Capitol Records purchased a 49 percent stake in Matador, which Lombardi and Cosloy bought back in 1999. Beggars Group purchased 50% of Matador in 2002 and took over the label's worldwide marketing. Over the years, the label has moved from shoebox sized offices to larger and larger complexes, and now operates in both London and New York.
Matador Records | History
A post on the Matador Records blog by founding partner Gerard Cosloy on November 4, 2009, stated, "After months of speculation (much of it in our own corridors), we can happily announce that Matador Records has purchased the True Panther Sounds label." This news ended rumors that Matador owned all or a percentage of True Panther. Cosloy went on to confirm that True Panther's future releases will be worked through the Matador marketing and promotion team.
True Panther Sounds | About
Matador was created in 1989 by Chris Lombardi in his New York City apartment. Lombardi brought the Austrian duo H.P. Zinker into Wharton Tiers’ Fun City studio to record Matador's first release, "...and there was light". Lombardi continued to add artists to the label's roster, with bands like the Dustdevils, Railroad Jerk and Superchunk, before being joined by former Homestead Records manager Gerard Cosloy in 1990. The two of them have run it together since. Matador experienced its first taste of crazed media attention & big sales with the North American release of Teenage Fanclub’s debut record, A Catholic Education in 1990.
Matador Records | History
Midway through the tour for "Palo Santo", the band was notified by Misra Records that they would be unable to continue to distribute Shearwater's music. Meiburg personally emailed the owner of Matador Records, Gerard Cosloy, who subsequently signed Shearwater to a multi-album deal. On April 10, 2007, Shearwater released a two-disc edition of "Palo Santo" which featured five re-recorded tracks, remastered versions of the other six tracks, as well as a bonus disc of outtakes from the original sessions. Meiburg had felt that the original Palo Santo suffered from "murkiness", and could be improved upon in the studio. Matador Records released the album "Rook" on June 3, 2008.
Shearwater (band) | Matador records
This company was owned and managed by Charles Stephens.
Hit Records | Background
Sometime around 1955, Puchito Records became a subsidiary of Montilla Records, which was owned by Fernando Montilla "(né" Fernando José Montilla Ambrosiani; 1915–2014) and, from 1955 to 1959, managed by Harry Sultan (1904–1971), who, from about 1931 to about 1967, was owner of Sultan's Record Shop at 26, then 38 East 23rd Street, in the Flatiron District of Manhattan, New York. In 1956, Montilla Records, set-up in a distributorship in his shop on 23rd Street to expand distribution of Puchito Records coast-to-coast. Armada & Rodriguez of Florida, Inc., Miami, Florida (founded July 22, 1968 — dissolved September 24, 1999) Personnel
Puchito Records | Subsidiaries, distributors, and successors
Matador Records is an independent record label, with a roster of mainly indie rock, but also punk rock, experimental rock, alternative rock, and electronic acts.
Matador Records | Introduction
Matador Europe supervises the promotion, sales and marketing of Matador titles in Europe. The London-based office also licensed recordings from some of North America's most acclaimed new artists, M. Ward, Sleater-Kinney, Modest Mouse, and Superchunk to name a few. The roster has also grown with the label and has helped artists such as Yo La Tengo, Cat Power, Cornelius, Solex, Pizzicato Five, Helium and the Arsonists reach audiences worldwide. In 1994 Patrick Amory became Matador's label manager, and has since progressed to label President, as well as a partner of Lombardi and Cosloy.
Matador Records | History
Today, Gusto Records owns the Chart Records catalogue except for the recordings by Lynn Anderson, which is owned by Sony Music Entertainment (the current owner of RCA Records), and has reissued a number of the recordings on CD.
Chart Records | Introduction
According to Timothy Prudhomme, the band were told by a Matador marketing director that they needed to change the name of the band. They refused to give in. After "Conduct", the band left Matador and drifted between labels. In 2001, they released two albums on two different labels: "Cupid's Cactus" was released on Steve Shelley's independent label, Smells Like Records, and "Gold Bricks" was released on Homesleep Records in 2001. "Those Are Not My Bongos" was released in 2003 on both Homesleep and Future Farmer Records; the latter rereleased "Gold Bricks" in the U.S. in 2004.
Fuck (band) | History
The band was then signed by well-known independent label Matador Records which released their second and third albums.
Sportsguitar | Introduction
Betancourt and Marroquín dissolved their partnership, with Betancourt retaining ownership of the Ideal label and Marroquín retaining the recording studio while starting another record label, Nopal Records. The label moved from Alice to San Benito, Texas, opening new recording studios and a pressing plant there. Ideal ceased operations in 1971 when Betancourt died. Chris Strachwitz purchased all Ideal masters in 1990.
Ideal Records | History
In 1999, St. John founded the artist-owned record company, Ancalagon LLC.She formed the company as a result of her personal dissatisfaction with the marketing and production approach of larger recording companies. St. John named the record company after her pet iguana, Ancalagon.
Lara St. John | Ancalagon Records
The song was created as part of a contest sponsored by the school newspaper, then known as "The Toreador". R.C. Marshall, the editor of the 1931 "La Ventana" was chosen as the winner and given a $25 prize. In the next year, Goin' Band Director Harry LeMaire rewrote the music to the song. Aside from that, it has remained unchanged since its creation. Despite Texas Tech adopting the Red Raider as its mascot in 1936, the song continues to refer to the original Matador mascot.
The Matador Song | History
In 2008, the band announced they were going to leave their record company and go independent, founding their own record label Tronco Records. They changed their name to "Jarabedepalo" because their former record label had the rights to the name. In 2009 they released, "Orquesta Reciclando" ("Recycling Orchestra"), in which they recorded new versions of their old songs, and one new song. "¿Y Ahora que Hacemos?" ("And Now What Are We Going To Do?"), was released in 2011 and "Somos" ("We Are") in 2014.
Jarabe de Palo | Going independent
Paco Betancourt owned and operated the Rio Grande Music Co. in San Benito, Texas, which also housed the Ideal Records recording studio. The Rio Grande Music Co. was primarily a coin-operated vending company that owned and serviced jukeboxes and pinball machines. In the 1920s, Paco Betancourt owned and operated the Queen Theatre in Brownsville, Texas, which was the first theatre in the Rio Grande Valley to show talking movies. By the late 1940s and early 1950s, local music of the day—the early Tejano and conjunto music of South Texas—had become a popular genre and good business for record producers and jukebox operators.
Paco Betancourt | Biography
Villar Records is a Filipino record label owned by Mareco, Inc. which also owns the Mabuhay Records label. It was launched in 1950 by the late Manuel P. Villar who was known as the "Father of Philippine Recording" for pioneering the recording of original Pilipino music or OPM. He was also the first president of the Record Industry Association of the Philippines (RIAP). Mareco, Inc. bought original compositions from various Filipino artists and commercially produced recordings of numerous folk songs, "Kundiman", "balitaw" and other traditional music from different regions of the Philippines, keeping indigenous music alive in the 1950s and 1960s in the face of American and British imports.
Villar Records | Introduction
Between 1986 and 1994, Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel refused to record any material because of a dispute with BMG over copyrights to his songs. He continued his career in live stage performances, setting attendance records throughout Latin America. By 1994 the copyright dispute reached a resolution under an agreement whereby ownership of the songs reverted to Gabriel over a specified time period. The record label selected eleven previously released tracks from Gabriel's catalog to release "Debo Hacerlo", the last new song recorded by the artist. This compilation album became a success, selling six million copies in Latin America and receiving a platinum certification in United States for shipments of 200,000 units.
Debo Hacerlo | Album history
The band put out one more record for Matador, "On the Mouth" in 1993. After Matador entered into a distribution agreement with major label Atlantic Records, Superchunk decided to leave the label, even though the Atlantic logo did not have to be displayed on their releases. Instead, the band opted to release their following records through Merge. The next album, "Foolish", brought further critical acclaim for the band in 1994. A second singles compilation (the first was 1992's "Tossing Seeds") came out in the summer of 1995. It was titled "Incidental Music 1991–95" and contained most of their hard-to-find tracks (imports, B-sides, comp.
Superchunk | History
When their cousins - who had purchased the exclusive 8-track distribution rights in Mexico for the Spanish music portfolio of RCA and CBS - had excess inventory, the Cayre brothers would sell it in Spanish language markets in the USA. After being requested to stop selling in the USA by both CBS and RCA (since the cousins only had the right to distribute in Mexico), the Cayre brothers, selling their textile interests to their Mexican cousins, purchased the exclusive 8-track Spanish language distribution rights from both CBS and RCA; within a year, they also acquired the same distribution rights for Spanish music LP records.
Joseph Cayre | Career
The company was founded in 1978 by Robin Scott, Max Tregoning and Ian Tregoning. Over the next six years, it released several recordings by M, Adam and the Ants, Anthony Moore, Renaldo and the Loaf, the Mothmen and Yello, among others. After the label closed in 1983, the rights to its entire back catalogue were bought out by CBS, Adam Ant's then label, to secure permanent control of the Ants' recording history with Do It. The back catalogue is now owned by Sony Music Entertainment, which bought out CBS in 1987.
Do It Records | Introduction
He owned a number of record labels, including "LeMonde" (distributed by Atlantic), then "Legrand" (distributed by Rust/Laurie) and finally "SPQR" (distributed by London).
Frank Guida | Biography
Some of the label's compilations featured material from the Fax +49-69/450464, , and Ninja Tune record labels that had not been released in the U.S. It is now owned by Knitting Factory Records.
Instinct Records | Introduction
Ideal was founded by Paco Betancourt and Armando Marroquín in 1946, making it the first of southern Texas record labels owned by Mexican-Americans. Following the Second World War the major record labels such as RCA Victor ceased recording regional Chicano music, concentrating instead on larger "authentic" Hispanic markets in major metropolitan areas such as Mexico City. Marroquín owned a large number of jukeboxes in cantinas and other public places frequented by those of Hispanic culture. Thus, Marroquín became not only cognizant of the demand thus left un-met, but was personally suffering financially because he could not find records with the music expected by his customers.
Ideal Records | History
Nacional Records was founded by Tomas Cookman in 2005. Cookman is the president and owner of Cookman International, a multi-faceted company that specializes in artist management, publishing, marketing, special events such as the Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC) and Supersonico, original content (La Hora Nacional TV show on MTV Tr3s and weekly radio show, LAMC Mixtape on SiriusXM) and the Latino Loop (a weekly industry newsletter emailed to over 100,000 tastemakers) among other endeavors. The label's first album release was Aterciopelados lead singer Andrea Echeverri's self-titled solo album on March 8, 2005. It went on to be nominated for both a Grammy and a Latin Grammy.
Nacional Records | History
ABKCO Records is currently distributed by Universal Music Distribution, which also controls distribution of the Rolling Stones' post-ABKCO catalog through Polydor Records and Interscope Records. In addition to music, ABKCO controls the rights to Alejandro Jodorowsky's early films, including "Fando y Lis", "El Topo", and "The Holy Mountain".
ABKCO Records | Introduction
Caribou Records is an American record label. It is owned by James William Guercio, who also owns Caribou Ranch recording studios and was the longtime manager of the band Chicago. Caribou was an imprint of CBS Records, now Sony Music.
Caribou Records | Introduction
Exclusive Records was established by Leon René in Los Angeles in 1944 and ceased operations in January 1950. Buddy Baker was the music director. The label's roster included music by Lucky Thompson, the Basin Street Boys, the Ceele Burke Orchestra, Edgar Hayes & His Stardusters, Herb Jeffries, Rickey Jordan, Jack McVea & His Orchestra, Mabel Scott, Frantic Fay Thomas, Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers, and Johnny Moore's Three Blazers with Charles Brown. Leon René and his brother Otis René, who owned Excelsior Records, purchased a shellac record pressing plant, but when the format changed from 78 rpm to 45 rpm, their old equipment could not press the new smaller vinyl discs, and both labels went out of business.
Exclusive Records | History
Sunshine Records was a Filipino record label owned by Vicor Music Corporation. It was established in 1977 by Orly Ilacad, the co-founder of Vicor. Some of the songs that became hits under the label were "Ang Nobya kong Sexy" by the APO Hiking Society, "Ang Boyfriend Kong Baduy" by Cinderella in 1976, "Dukha" performed by Judas in 1978, "Pakita Mo" by Archie D. in 1990, & "Kaba" by Tenten Muñoz in 1991. The label became dormant by 1994 and its artists were moved to its parent Vicor.
Sunshine Records (Philippines) | Introduction
Best remembered was his 1971-1973 collaboration with Shut Up, later known as the František Ringo Čech Group, with whom he recorded numerous "bubble-gum" singles and one side of his only solo album.
The Matadors (Czech band) | Introduction
Fonovisa Records is an American Spanish language record label founded in 1984 by Guillermo Santiso as a subsidiary of Televisa. Its former name before being acquired by Televisa in 1984 was Profono Internacional, which was founded in 1978. Fonovisa mainly produces Mexican style music. It is well known for its signing with artists such as Los Tigres Del Norte, Los Bukis, Los Temerarios, Enrique Iglesias, Lucero and Thalía. In late 2002, Fonovisa was acquired from Televisa by the Univision Music Group. Fonovisa was owned by the Univision Music Group until May 2008 when it was bought by Universal Music Group.
Fonovisa Records | Introduction
He died in October 1994. In his will he left the recordings, labels and memorabilia to Hector González who now owns Rampart Records.
Eddie Davis (producer) | Background
On May 13, 2016, Matador Records recalled the entire initial compact disc and vinyl print runs of the album following the denial of permission to use lyrics from The Cars' "Just What I Needed" in the song "Just What I Needed/Not Just What I Needed". It was the first time in the label's history that they had recalled a record. The recalled copies were destroyed at the label's warehouse using a garbage truck compactor. Car Seat Headrest and Matador Records had believed that they had secured the proper approval from The Cars' publisher to include the interpolation of "Just What I Needed" in "Just What I Needed/Not Just What I Needed" and had moved forward with pressing copies of "Teens of Denial" with the song.
Teens of Denial | Recall
Hombres G entered TRAK studios in February 1986 to record their second studio album, "La cagaste... Burt Lancaster". They recovered the song "Marta tiene un marcapasos" from the Lollipop singles and released a new version which became a top hit.
La cagaste... Burt Lancaster | History
By 1994, the label was responsible for releasing about 10% of the Latin music market in the United States, and had its American headquarters in Miami. It was ultimately acquired by PolyGram in 1995 (which itself was later acquired by Universal Music Group in 1999). The record label was well known for popular Latin pop and salsa singers during the 1980s and 1990s. "El Club de Los Tigritos" alumni and teen idol Douglas Vale released his debut album "Aun Soy Chamo" only in Venezuela under Rodven and the breakthrough album "Hieroglyphics" associated with Maverick Records and Warner Music Group. The Rodven catalog is currently owned by Universal Music Group through Universal Music Latin Entertainment with Machete Music managing the Tropical catalog and Universal Music Latino managing the non-Tropical catalogs.
Rodven Records | Later years
"That was the staff that worked on all those records like "Kid A" and "Amnesiac" and sold a million copies each even though they weren’t pop albums. We thought, 'This could work. These people know what’s going on'." However, the staff they signed on to work with was fired once the label was sold. Fogarino said: "As soon as we started rolling tape, they all got fired. All the staff that signed us and had stuck with us through the Matador years, they all got fired and we had no more support." The label's staff also changed often, resulting in the group not knowing who was even in charge.
Our Love to Admire | Background
Otis René and his brother Leon René (who owned Exclusive Records) had purchased their own shellac record pressing plant, but when the format changed from 78 rpm to 45 rpm, their old equipment could not press the new smaller vinyl discs, and both labels went out of business, only to be purchased out of bankruptcy in name only, and the label existed another 20 years by selling second and third-run pressings of recordings. In 1952, Otis started up the short-lived Spin Records with musician Preston Love.
Excelsior Records | History
In 1972, Bellaphon Records Riedel & Co. KG owned Bellaphon Records and Admiral Records.
Bellaphon Records | Labels owned
This song was later featured on their 1969 W.B. album "Harper's Bizarre" #4. Warner Bros. Records bought out Autumn Records' assets in 1966. Many of the groups became Warner-Reprise recording artists. These included such minor Autumn artists as The Mojo Men and The Vejtables.
Autumn Records | History
In 2015, Sherif Montasser, Atef Montasser’s nephew took over Sout El-Hob as owner and CEO through Sout El-Hob Entertainment, one of the companies Dozzan Music Group owns.
Sout El-Hob Records | Ownership
But they felt that they lost creative control of the recording process, and broke their seven-album recording contract.
Leslie Spit Treeo | History
Rojas also is Vice-President of Flamingo Digital Records, a record company which he founded in 1997.
Fernando Rojas | Introduction
D Records was an American record label located in Houston, Texas, United States. It was founded by Pappy Daily. The label closed in 1965, though George Strait recorded his first songs under the label's name from 1978-1980 until he signed to MCA Records in 1981. Daily also owned the Dart record label.
D Records | Introduction
It continued as a part of the Lumberjack Mordam Music Group. With record sales in decline throughout the industry, the company went out of business in 2009.
Mordam Records | Introduction
"Recorded on May 20 (tracks 1-4) & June 12 (track 5), 1964."
Matador (Grant Green album) | Track listing
People eventually folded in 1976, concomitant with the dissolution of the J.B.'s. The label's output was later anthologized in a series of three CDs released by Polydor titled "James Brown's Funky People".
Record labels owned by James Brown | People
The copyrights distributed by FM Records LLC are owned by No Doubt Productions and Kingston Songs, all based in Kingston, Jamaica and Sunrise, Florida, USA.
FM Records LLC | Introduction
End Records was a record label founded in 1957 by George Goldner. In 1962 the label was acquired by Morris Levy and incorporated into Roulette Records. Among its more successful recording acts were the Flamingos, the Chantels, and Little Anthony and the Imperials; it also recorded singles by Marilyn Monroe and Wilt Chamberlain. In 1988 Roulette was purchased by Rhino Records, and Rhino in turn was sold in the 1990s to what is now the Warner Music Group, which currently owns the End Records archives.
End Records | Introduction
During 1929 the American Record Corporation was established with the merger of three companies. These were the Cameo Record Corporation (which owned Cameo, Lincoln and Romeo Records), the Pathé Phonograph and Radio Corporation (which owned Actuelle, Pathé, and Perfect), and the Plaza Music Company (which owned Banner, Domino, Jewel, Oriole, and Regal). Although Plaza's assets were included in the merger, the Plaza company itself was not, (it formed Crown Records in 1930 as an independent label) and the Scranton Button Company, the parent company of Emerson Records (and the company that pressed records for most of these labels). Louis G.
American Record Corporation | Overview
Josep Roig Boada (born August 6, 1957 in Terrassa, Spain) is a Spanish music composer, producer and sound engineer. He owns Temps Record company.
Josep Roig Boada | Introduction
A controversial distribution deal with MCA Records ended up in protracted litigation, and, finally, the label closed down in 1986. In 1995, Rhino Records purchased all the released and unreleased masters owned by the Sugar Hill label, covering the Americas and Japan, with Castle Communications (now known as Sanctuary Records, a division of BMG Rights Management) taking the international rights. In 2002, the company's Sugar Hill Studios (originally called Sweet Mountain Studios") in Englewood, New Jersey was destroyed by a fire. "Rapper's Delight," "The Message," and many other Sugar Hill hits were recorded there. Master tapes from the All Platinum years, as well as Sugar Hill recordings, were reportedly destroyed in the fire.
Sugar Hill Records (hip hop label) | Sold out
The first Tower Records store in Mexico opened in the mid 1990s in the Zona Rosa area featuring 3 floors and a live DJ. After international bankruptcy, the stores were acquired by Promotora Musical, a retail company owned by Grupo Carso, the same owner of Mixup record stores. There were Tower Records stores in Mexico City (Gran Sur and Mundo E), Puebla (Las Animas) and Monterrey (Paseo San Pedro)., but eventually closed.
Tower Records | Mexico
Between 1986 and 1994, Juan Gabriel refused to record any material because of a dispute with BMG over copyrights to his songs. He continued his career in live stage performances, setting attendance records throughout Latin America. By 1994 the copyright dispute reached a resolution under an agreement whereby ownership of the songs reverted to Juan Gabriel over a specified time period. After this dispute, which lasted 8 years, he released an album titled, "Gracias Por Esperar," which in English, translates to, "Thank You For Waiting". The record label then selected eleven previously released tracks from Juan Gabriel's catalog in order to release "Debo Hacerlo", the last new song recorded by the artist.
Juan Gabriel | BMG copyright dispute
Matamp founder, Mat Mathias, started the company RadioCraft by 1946. What started as an interest ultimately developed into a fully-fledged business building amplifiers for the burgeoning music scene in the early sixties. Behind his wife’s retail shop, selling accessories to young musicians, Mathias’s workshop/manufacturing facility also extended into a fully fledged recording studio complete with disc cutters for young bands to record and cut their own demos. This resulted in the formation of MAT Records. His customers would come and see him, tell him what they wanted, and he would build it and/or record it. Patterns would emerge, and trends soon changed into product lines.
Matamp | History
Logo Records was a British record company formed in the mid-1970s by British record executives Geoff Hannington and Olav Wyper. It was originally funded and part-owned by UK publishing company Marshall Cavendish. In 1977, the company purchased Transatlantic Records which was at that time owned 75% by the Granada Group and 25% by its founder/chairman Nathan Joseph. Transatlantic was folded into Logo Records. The company signed new artists including The Tourists and Paul Young and reissued Transatlantic back catalogue. In the 1980s the company became solely owned by Geoff Hannington. In the 1990s, Logo (and the Transatlantic Records catalogue) was sold to Castle Communications - now Sanctuary Records.
Logo Records | Introduction
Trattoria Records is a Japanese record company. The record company was founded by Keigo Oyamada in 1993 and is currently owned by Polystar, a group of independent record labels.
Trattoria Records | Introduction
In 2006, P-Vine Records in Japan acquired the worldwide rights to them.
Black Top Records | History
Biograph Records is a record label founded in 1967 by Arnold S. Caplin that specialized in early American ragtime, jazz, and blues music. Its reissues includes Bunny Berigan, Bing Crosby, The California Ramblers, Ruth Etting, Benny Goodman, Earl Hines, George Lewis, Ted Lewis, Jimmy O'Bryant, Jabbo Smith, Jack Teagarden, Ethel Waters, and Clarence Williams. The company's label are Melodeon, Center, Regal and Dawn. In 1970 Biograph bought the rights from QRS Records to release records made from piano rolls, and these included the work of Scott Joplin and Fats Waller. It also bought Melodeon Records and Dawn Records. In August 2002, Biograph Records was acquired by Retropolis Entertainment, renamed Shout! Factory in 2003, owned by Richard Foos and Robert Emmer, two of the founders.
Biograph Records | Introduction
XHPJMM was awarded in the IFT-4 radio auction of 2017 and came to air in March 2018. Corpulenta Operadora is owned by Lizbeth Loy Song Escalada, a former Quintana Roo state judge, and her daughter Lizbeth Loy Gamboa Song, a former federal deputy.
XHPJMM-FM | History
Flores debuted with the song "Dos Horas de Balazos". To this song he added "La tertulia", both were recorded by RCA Victor in 1952. He acted in the tents and cabarets of the city, and gained fame in the rest of the country, in Latin America and in the United States. By 1976, he had already recorded seven full-length albums, and owned the label Ageleste.
Salvador Flores Rivera | First songs
"The Matador" is a song written by Don Pfrimmer and Bob Morris, and recorded by American country music artist Sylvia. It was released in April 1981 as the fourth single from the album "Drifter". The song reached #7 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
The Matador (Sylvia song) | Introduction
Matador is the second solo album by English musician Gaz Coombes. Recorded at Coombes' home studio and Courtyard Studios in Oxfordshire, it was released on 26 January 2015 on his record label Hot Fruit Recordings via Caroline International. Coombes himself produced the album and it features appearances by Ride drummer Loz Colbert, Charly Coombes, and guitarist Nick Fowler. The album charted #18 on the UK Albums Chart. It was nominated for the 2015 Mercury Music Prize.
Matador (Gaz Coombes album) | Introduction
Following the dissolution of the band, Derek Shulman went on to a successful career in the organisational side of the music business (initially promotion and artist development for PolyGram, followed by A&R at Mercury Records, becoming president of Atco Records, after which he became President of Roadrunner Records. He is now the owner of new music company 2Plus Music & Entertainment). Ray Shulman moved into soundtrack work for television and advertising before becoming a record producer (working with, among others, Echo & the Bunnymen, the Sundays, and the Sugarcubes). He has written soundtracks for computer games, as well as producing DVDs for artists such as Genesis and Queen.
Gentle Giant | Post-split
The company was founded by one of his descendants, Don Julio Arango y Parra, in 1913.
Dictador | History
Kemado Records is an American record label based in New York City founded in 2002 by Andrés Santo Domingo and Tom Clapp. In 2006 the label released the "Invaders" compilation, which featured many of the label's bands alongside other hard rock and heavy metal bands such as Witchcraft, High on Fire and Witch. In 2008, Kemado introduced its Mexican Summer imprint. The label focuses on digital and limited-edition vinyl releases. Then in October 2009 Kemado Records and Mexican Summer opened Co-Op 87, a destination brick-and-mortar record store in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with several other record labels, an idea label owner Andrés Santo Domingo called a "vinyl co-op store." They also opened Gary's Electric Studio, a commercial recording space, at the same location.
Kemado Records | Introduction
He spent less than $200 to acquire phonograph recording equipment and set up shop in his living room. His first recording was by the female duet Carmen y Laura, and this recording's 200 copies quickly sold out. Marroquín not only filled his own jukeboxes with his product, but found ready customers in other regional jukebox operators in South Texas. The label was originally only distributed from San Antonio. Marroquín made partnerships with Betancourt, who owned a music store, and the Allen Company, a record distributor from Los Angeles. Although Marroquín would significantly upgrade the quality of his recording equipment, most recording released on Ideal continued to be recorded in his living room where recording activity occurred on an almost daily basis.
Ideal Records | History
In the 1970s and 1980s Ramiro Cavazos had a record store on South 23rd Street in McAllen, Texas.
Los Donneños | Introduction
Panos also co-owned Cherry Red Records with Morey Alexander. After leaving his position as National Sales Manager at Crown Records, Panos and Alexander formed Cherry Red Records. Their first release was "The Dirty Dozens" by Rudy Ray Moore. The headquarters for Cherry Red were located at the same address as the Audiomasters label.
George Panos | Cherry Red Records
Conqueror was originally owned by the Plaza Music Company, then became part of the American Record Corporation family of labels. Most of the issues are of standard dance tunes and popular songs of the era, although there are jazz recordings by Louis Armstrong and Glenn Miller. The audio fidelity of Conquerors is average for the era, pressed into somewhat below average shellac. The record sleeves state that the proper playing speed for Conqueror Records is 80 rpm.
Conqueror Records | History
Matador is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1964 but not released on the Japanese Blue Note label until 1979. The album was finally reissued in the U.S. on CD in 1990 with one bonus track. It was also reissued on vinyl in 2010, with a different cover.
Matador (Grant Green album) | Introduction
Beaumont, Texas-based talent manager and club-owner Jack Starns and Dallas-based jukebox operator and country music talent scout Harold “Pappy” Daily initially founded the company. They soon added a third partner, Don Pierce, a California-based record executive and business partner of Daily. Shortly after Starday scored its first hit, “Y’all Come” by Arlie Duff, Starnes sold his shares to Daily and Pierce over personal differences.
Starday Records | History II
As a musician, he is the owner of El-Montage Records, a music record label.
Tarila Thompson | Introduction
Guaraldi departed Fantasy in 1966 after the release of "Live at El Matador" (a collaboration with guitarist Bola Sete).
Fantasy Records | Vince Guaraldi
Hispavox S.A. was a major Spanish record company founded on June 27, 1953, that run independently until 1985 when it was acquired by EMI. It owned the Hispavox record label, manufactured for other labels and distributed in Spain foreign labels. It also had its own recording studios, Estudios Hispavox. The Hispavox name is retained by Warner Music Group after its acquisition of Parlophone Music Spain in 2013.
Hispavox | Introduction
In 1997, Rojas created and began developing his own record label, Flamingo Digital Records. With his own extended play and singles, he became the first artist produced under this new record company. The first single from Flamingo Digital was Rojas's own "Melody In The Key of Love", which was promoted on an infomercial on Spanish television networks. Currently, the label is at work on new projects for 2015 and 2016, though none have been announced yet.
Fernando Rojas | Flamingo Digital Records
Tico Records was a New York City record label that was founded in 1948. It was originally owned by George Goldner and later acquired by Morris Levy and incorporated into Roulette Records. It specialized in Latin music and was significant for introducing artists such as Ray Barretto and Tito Puente. In 1974, it was sold to Fania Records and stopped issuing new releases in 1981; however, the label's extensive catalog continues to be reissued under the Tico Records name.
Tico Records | Introduction
After 4 years, the beginning of the end arrived in 1987, when Italo disco was fading out in Europe and its business suffered drastic decline due to the increasingly strong popularity of house music. The label, like many others, then tried to survive changing its style towards house and Eurobeat with discrete results. In 1989, Memory closed shop in 1989. Zanni and Cundari went on to form MCE Records to produce techno house music, but ceased its operations after Cundari's death in 1993. Its back catalogs are currently owned by ZYX Music.
Memory Records | Popularity loss and closure
Beggars Group is a British record company that owns or distributes several other labels, including 4AD, Rough Trade Records, Matador Records, XL Recordings and Young Turks.
Beggars Group | Introduction
Produced by Chilean record producer Alvaro Riveros, tracked at Ochoa Studios in Puerto Rico, Mixed at The Hit Factory in New York and Mastered by Howie Weinberg also in New York. Though this album was never released or distributed, Big Sur Records produced a video for "Tres Palabras" a medley with sections from Osvaldo Farrés original "Tres Palabras" and "Amar y Vivir "por Consuelo Velazquez. The video got medium to heavy rotation in MTV Latino and in The Box. The whole band moved to Miami, Florida in 1997 where they played and toured extensively in Florida, Cancun and Guadalajara Mexico for three years before dissolving in 2000.
Joaquin Berrios | Introduction
Queenie Taylor, long an employee of Bill Graham Presents, purchased Butch Bridges' share of 415 Records in 1979.
415 Records | History
The Beggars Group has been in business for over forty years and is owned and managed by Martin Mills. Its musical focus remains fiercely alternative. As of 2017, the main labels that form the group are 4AD, Matador Records, Rough Trade Records, XL Recordings and Young Turks. The company owns 4AD (the label itself a Beggars Banquet imprint) outright, and retains a 50% stake in each of the others. Older labels within the group, including Beggars Banquet itself and Too Pure, are now part of Beggars Arkive, which is the catalog department for its labels that are no longer active.
Beggars Group | Ownership
Zarape Records or El Zarape Records was a record label from Dallas, Texas. It was founded in 1963. In 1964 and 1965 it released albums ("Por un amor", "Amor bonito" respectively) by Little Joe and the Latinaires which was the beginning of that artist's success. Johnny Gonzales was an executive at the label. Zarape was also the label responsible for "El barco chiquito", which is Agustín Ramírez's most popular album. Zarape was the first label to market Tex-Mex music on a truly national level. In the mid 1970s Zarape became the first label for "El Si Senor" Ruben Naranjo y Los Gamblers.
Zarape Records | Introduction
After studying music, joining the army and obtaining a degree in engineering, Ramón Sabat began working in several music labels in New York City. In 1943, the label he was working in, Musicraft, folded, and he decided to bring the necessary assets to Cuba to fulfill his desire of establishing his own Cuban-based record company. Thus in 1944 Sabat became the founder and president of the Cuban Plastics & Record Corporation. According to Irais Huerta Rubio, the majority stockholder of the company was a Cuban electric company controlled by an American holding company. In 1945, the company sold the whole of its shares to Sabat, becoming the sole owner of the company and launching it under the name Panart (sometimes stylized Pan-Art, short for Panamerican Art).
Panart | Origins and expansion
The Mareco Recording Company in Manila bought the song in 1950 and compensated him ₱50 as advance royalty and additional three cents for each sold record. However, he was only given 110.25 of the ₱1,994.63 collectible in 1967 and the company's financial reports showed that his composition sold 62,812 records during the period between 1966 and 1975. In 1976, with the help of his lawyer Napoleon Rama, he filed a lawsuit to claim the unpaid royalties in Quezon City, but it was dismissed two months later because of his inability to travel due to lack of funds. The company also claimed that checks were made in his name; however, they were not delivered because he moved to different addresses with his wife twice as he avoided staying with his children who had started their own families.
Vicente Rubi | Royalties
The original line-up (Alvarez, De Jesús and Maduro) only got to record 78 RPM records. The following discography only covers the records in LP format with the Marvela label which started once the fourth member, Jorge Hernandez, joined in 1952.
Trio Vegabajeño | Discography
Today, Gowans and Lutick also own and operate Red Cat Records, a record store in Vancouver.
The Buttless Chaps | History
Blige, Jessica Simpson, Avenged Sevenfold, John Fogerty, Courtney Love, Kid Rock, Pat Benatar, White Zombie, Brandy, Tito Puente, Coolio, Black Label Society, Dwight Yoakam, Pink and Dishwalla. Studio was purchased by Paramount Recording Studios in 2010.
Track Record Studios | Introduction
All Star Records Now Orfanato Music Group is Don Omar's record label. He released the album Los Bandoleros under this label in 2005. Omar is the label's biggest attraction. It operates as a subsidiary of, and is distributed through, Universal Music Group's Machete Records.
All Star Records | Introduction
The reputation of SugarHill was enhanced when the studio producer Huey P. Meaux took over ownership in the early 1970s. He became instrumental in launching many careers, most notably that of Freddy Fender who recorded 21 hit records including "Before The Next Teardrop Falls", "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights", "Secret Love", "You'll Lose a Good Thing"" and" "Living it Down"." Throughout the 70's and 80's SugarHill continued to record notable artists including: In 1986 Modern Music Ventures Incorporated purchased SugarHill from Huey P. Meaux. SugarHill consequently became the home base for a number of successful Tejano recording artists including Emilio Navaira, La Fiebre, Excellencia, Country Star Johnny Rodriquez and Adalberto Gallegos.
SugarHill Recording Studios | SugarHill (Huey P. Meaux)
In fact, he founded a record label at the time, named "Artomax", which was financed by local singer Chucho Avellanet and local producer Tomás Figueroa.
Tony Croatto | The Haciendo Punto years
His wife, Julia Sabat, became the vice-president, and millionaire Enrique Gorrín became its treasurer. The company's headquarters and recording studios were at San Miguel 410, between Campanario and Lealtad, in Havana, while the pressing plant was located outside of the city. The first record released by Panart (cat. no. 1001) was a 10" single by Cascarita with the Julio Cueva Orchestra ("Ampárame" / "En el ñongo"). Eight more singles were released in 1944 and 83 in 1945, starting with Orquesta Hermanos Castro "Cucha el eco del tambó" / "Toda una vida" (cat. no. 1010). Although Panart is frequently mentioned as the first independent record label in Cuba, a small label called Star was established a few years prior, recording four songs by the Septeto Nacional in 1940.
Panart | Origins and expansion
Panart was one of the first and most successful independent record labels in Cuba, founded in 1944 by engineer Ramón Sabat. In 1961, its studios were seized by Fidel Castro's communist regime and the label was nationalized, becoming "Panart Nacionalizada", which shortly after was absorbed by EGREM. Together with RCA Victor's, Panart studios were the main recording studios in Cuba during the 1950s. Since the 1960s, they are known as the Areito studios, owned by EGREM. In addition, Panart acted as a distributor for Odeon, Musart, Sonora and Capitol Records. Its only sublabel, Sonoro, was established in 1949 and signed several trova acts such as Los Compadres.
Panart | Introduction
What was then known as Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, which owned Warner Bros. Records and Atlantic Records, acquired Elektra Records in 1969 which included Elektra's Nonesuch Records classical music label. This led to the formation of WEA, the forerunner of Warner Music Group. Nonesuch is now part of Warner Records. WEA acquired Teldec Records in 1988. Warner Classics was formed in 1991. The renamed Warner Music Group acquired Erato Records in 1992. Warner acquired the classical video company NVC in 1994. The label developed a larger profile in 2013 when it absorbed EMI Classics with that label's output absorbed into the Warner Classics label and the co-owned Virgin Classics absorbed into Erato.
Warner Classics | History
American Matador is the second studio album by guitarist Marc Bonilla, released in 1993 through Reprise Records.
American Matador | Introduction
Mistlur Records is a small record company founded in the 1970s. They are now owned by MNW. Amon the artist published by Mistlur is Trettioåriga Kriget, Mörbyligan, Ebba Grön, Lena Ekman, Travolta Kids, Calcutta Transfer, Torkel Rasmusson, Diestinct, Raketerna, Lolita Pop, Imperiet, Richard Lloyd, Captain Beefheart, Docenterna and Fläskkvartetten. The label issued records from 1978-2010.
Mistlur Records | Introduction
Blanco y Negro Records (Spanish: "White and Black"), a subsidiary of WEA Records Ltd., was established in 1983 by Geoff Travis of Rough Trade Records and Mike Alway of Cherry Red. Michel Duval of Les Disques du Crépuscule was also involved with the label. When Alway left, Alan McGee of Creation Records joined Blanco y Negro. Blanco y Negro was the label of Queen Adreena, Bananarama, Everything but the Girl, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Eddi Reader, The Dream Academy, Dinosaur Jr., Sudden Sway, Bernthøler, A House, Catatonia, The Veils and, reportedly, Elizabeth Fraser, former vocalist of Cocteau Twins. It also signed folk super group Equation and Irish singer Cara Dillon also was signed to the label with partner Sam Lakeman.
Blanco y Negro Records | Introduction
Because there was no extant rolls for the nickelodeon, Cook hand-produced rolls of two songs written specifically for the record. Executive Don Reed left for Europe in the summer of 1951 to acquire recordings for issue in the LP format. By 1952 Abbey was producing LP records, including a history of the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II. Not entirely content with standard sales channels, Abbey signed a deal with the Pacquin company to record songs subtly promoting a hand cream product without directly naming the brand. Besides Doraine, other executives of the company were Carlton "Kelly" Camarata (who was part-owner) as vice-president of Sales and Promotion, and Rudolph Toombs and Gus Statiras as A&R men.
Abbey Records | History
Mordam Records (the name a play on "More Damn Records") was established in 1983 in San Francisco, California, by Ruth Schwartz, an original co-editor of "Maximum RocknRoll" "(MRR)." The company's survival and growth was fueled by its exclusive distribution agreements with "MRR" and Alternative Tentacles, the record label owned by Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra. The label quickly gained a reputation with its associate labels for fair-dealing and timeliness, with Lee Joseph of Dionysus Records recalling that "checks arrived the same time every month with a statement" from the beginning of his association with Mordam in 1985 until its termination — a situation which Joseph categorized as "fabulous."
Mordam Records | Establishment
The Record Label for all Kinito Recordings throughout the 90s was J & N RECORDS and never Pa' Ti' Pa' Mi Records. Any authorized uses of the masters on Kinito's album were MASTER LICENSES and not that this, or any other label, had the rights.
Kinito Méndez | Pa' Ti Pa' Mi Records
In 2004, these music assets were divested by then-owner Time Warner and purchased by a private equity group. This independent company traded as Warner Music Group and was the world's last publicly traded major music company before being bought and privatized by Access Industries in 2011. Warner Music Group is the smallest of the three major international music conglomerates that include Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. Max Lousada oversees recorded music operations of the company. In 2019, the label was officially renamed Warner Records. Notable artists who have recorded for Warner Records include Madonna, Prince, Cher, Van Halen, Alice Cooper, Kylie Minogue, Goo Goo Dolls, Sheryl Crow, Gorillaz, Adam Lambert, Bette Midler, Grateful Dead, Blur, Duran Duran, Deep Purple, Fleetwood Mac, Liam Gallagher, Fleet Foxes, James Taylor, Lily Allen, Tegan and Sara, Dua Lipa, JoJo, Linkin Park, Muse, George Benson, Nile Rodgers, Black Sabbath, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Black Keys, Mr.
Warner Records | Introduction