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Record labels, producers, sound engineers, studios
21st / 20th centuries
Dean didn’t specialise only in album covers – he was the in-house artist of the UK progressive movement, supplying the original Virgin Records logo in 1973
The weird worlds of Roger Dean, prog rock's artist in residence – in pictures The Guardian Wed 21 Oct 2015 16.14 BST
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indie album / label / music UK
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1960s-1980s > USA > A&M Records USA
Jerry Moss (...) with the trumpeter Herb Alpert founded A&M Records, which at its peak from the 1960s to the ’80s was an independent powerhouse behind hits by the Carpenters, the Police, Janet Jackson, Peter Frampton and Mr. Alpert’s group, the Tijuana Brass, among many others (...)
Over their more than 30 years with A&M, Mr. Moss and Mr. Alpert developed an eclectic roster — Cat Stevens, Carole King, Supertramp and the grunge band Soundgarden all released music there — and established the label’s reputation for being supportive of artists and treating them fairly.
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USA > Atlantic Records UK / USA
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USA > Backstreet Records
MCA Records subsidiary label founded in 1979 by Danny Bramson
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Jimmy Gray, one of the label’s founders, was a D.J. on WHUR-FM, Howard University’s citywide radio station, where he identified himself simply as Black Fire.
Photograph: Plunky Branch
The Small, Black-Owned Record Label That Made a Big Impact in 1970s D.C. A new compilation of music released on Black Fire Records is a vital link between jazz and go-go, the city’s official genre. NYT August 12, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/
USA > Black Fire Records USA
Small, black-owned record label that made a big impact in 1970s D.C.
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USA > Blue Note Records UK / USA
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USA > Capitol Records UK
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UK > Charisma Records
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UK > Chrysalis Records
British record label founded in 1968
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USA > indie jazz and blues label Delmark Records > Bob Koester 1932-2021 USA
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Deram / Decca UK
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2011 > 25 years of Def Jam: how the sound of New York's streets rose up to rule the world USA
From humble beginnings in student digs, the record label Def Jam is credited with bringing New York's street culture and music to the masses – and even helping to elect a president
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/sep/04/
ECM Records USA
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USA > Epic records
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Rick Hall > FAME - publishing company and studio USA
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USA > 1970s Philadelphia sound > Philadelphia International Records UK / USA
Black-owned label > soul
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Reprise Records American record label founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra
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2013 > USA > Sub Pop: 25 years of underground rock UK
From the era-defining grunge of Nirvana to the dreamy modern Americana of the Shins, the Seattle label has become a cornerstone of US alternative music.
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USA > Ze Records UK
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Earl McGrath 1931-2016 USA American record executive and gallerist
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Henry David Epstein 1921-2014 USA
Henry Stone (...) produced early recordings by Ray Charles and James Brown (...) (his) Hialeah, Fla., company, TK Records, was a fountain of disco in the 1970s and the source of what came to be called the Miami sound
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Dot Records > Randolph Clay Wood USA 1917-2011
Randy Wood started out stocking records in a nook of his electrical appliance store before going on to found Dot Records, a label that found success in the 1950s recording white artists like Pat Boone singing black artists’ rhythm-and-blues songs
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Hollywood > Capitol Studios USA
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Chess Records USA
the iconic Chicago blues and rock 'n' roll label Chess Records
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Blues / Rock'n Roll USA > record producer and executive Marshall Chess Chess Records UK / USA
Leonard and Phil Chess's legendary Chicago label
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Cobra Records USA
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USA > Elektra Records
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Factory Records UK
Anthony Howard Wilson 1950-2007 record label boss, broadcaster and impresario
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UK > Fantasy Records UK
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Jamaica > Island Records
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USA > MCA Records
American record label owned by MCA Inc. established in 1972, though MCA had released recordings under that name in the UK from the 1960s
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early R&B > Jules, Saul and Joe Bihari USA > Modern Music Records founded 1945
Using the same manufacturing space and distribution network that they used to service and deliver jukeboxes, the brothers built Modern Records (to which the name was shortened in 1948) into a force among labels that recorded black music.
Along with Chess, Specialty and other relatively small labels, Modern recorded, pressed and distributed some of the most influential blues and rhythm and blues records of the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s.
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USA > Motown records UK / USA
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UK > Numa Records
Gary Numan's record label
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Germany > Parlophone UK
Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon.
The British branch of the label was founded on 8 August 1923 as the Parlophone Company Limited (the Parlophone Co. Ltd.), which developed a reputation in the 1920s as a jazz record label.
On 5 October 1926, the Columbia Graphophone Company acquired Parlophone's business, name, logo, and release library, and merged with the Gramophone Company on 31 March 1931 to become Electric & Musical Industries Limited (EMI).
George Martin joined Parlophone in 1950 as assistant to Oscar Preuss (who had set up the London branch of the company in 1923), the label manager, taking over as manager in 1955.
Martin produced and released a mix of recordings, including by comedian Peter Sellers, pianist Mrs Mills, and teen idol Adam Faith.
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Solar Records - acronym for Sound of Los Angeles Records USA
Richard Gilbert Griffey 1938-2010 bringing a funky, laid back, California sound to soul, R&B and disco in the ’70s and ’80s
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independent label > Specialty Records USA
innovative independent label based in Los Angeles that brought rhythm and blues into the mainstream and helped set the table for the rock ’n’ roll era with singers like Little Richard and Lloyd Price,
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USA > Stax Records UK / USA
the legendary Memphis label Stax Records, (...), through the 1960s, ran Detroit's Motown Records a close second as hitmaker and discoverer of black American musical talent.
Otis Redding, Booker T & the MGs, Isaac Hayes, the Staple Singers and Johnnie Taylor were among the many Stax discoveries, and so good were its house musicians and songwriters that the Atlantic label took Wilson Pickett and Sam & Dave to record with them.
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USA > Sun Records
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Sun Records
Samuel Cornelius Phillips / Sam Phillips 1923-2003 USA
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USA > Vee-Jay Records USA
In 1953, Vivian and James Bracken from Gary, Ind., borrowed $500 from a pawnbroker to start a record company.
Thirteen years later, Vee-Jay Records became the country's biggest independent, black-owned record label, and for a time, it was bigger than Motown.
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Verve Records
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UK > Virgin Records
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South Africa > Robert John "Mutt" Lange
South African record producer, mainly known for his work in rock music
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Rick Hall, a songwriter and record producer known as the "Father of Muscle Shoals Music" USA
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producer > Steve Lillywhite USA
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engineer > Eddie Kramer (born SA) USA
(in) 1967 (...) he was assigned to work with a young guitarist that everyone in London was talking about - Jimi Hendrix
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Jan Erik Kongshaug Norway 1944-2019
recording engineer who helped sculpt the rich and quietly splendorous sound of ECM Records, an influential label that has produced timeless jazz and contemporary classical recordings
(...) came with ECM, where he engineered or mastered hundreds of albums from 1970 until the end of his life.
Though he played a more inconspicuous role than Manfred Eicher, the label’s renowned founder and main producer, Mr. Kongshaug was arguably just as crucial to defining the famous “ECM sound,” which relied on precision and fidelity and used heavy helpings of reverb to create a feeling of both magnitude and intimacy.
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USA > Phil Ramone 1934-2013 USA
prolific record producer and engineer who worked with some of the biggest music stars of the last 50 years, including Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon, Billy Joel and Barbra Streisand
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USA > James Luther Dickinson musician and record producer 1941-2009 UK
Memphis musician and record producer who worked with the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Primal Scream
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studio USA
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New Orleans, USA J & M Recording Studio / Cosimo Vincent Matassa (1926-2014) USA
studio that helped jump-start rock ’n’ roll by recording early hits by the likes of Fats Domino and Little Richard
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UK > London > Abbey Road studios UK
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UK > London > Eighty years of Abbey Road - in pictures UK 8 June 2012
Musicians including Edward Elgar, Ella Fitzgerald, Kate Bush and, of course, The Beatles are photographed working at the world's most famous recording studio.
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re'cord UK
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recording
unedited master copy USA
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phonograph records
sound engineer USA
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studio engineer USA
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fuzz tone USA
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Glenn Thomas Snoddy USA 1922-2018
studio engineer who was at the controls for the historic Nashville recording session that inadvertently produced the sound that became known as the fuzz tone
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Rudolph Van Gelder USA 1924-2016
audio engineer whose work with Miles Davis, John Coltrane and numerous other musicians helped define the sound of jazz on record
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The many albums he engineered for Blue Note, Prestige, Impulse and other labels in the 1950s and ’60s included acknowledged classics like Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme,” Davis’s “Walkin’,” Herbie Hancock’s “Maiden Voyage,” Sonny Rollins’s “Saxophone Colossus” and Horace Silver’s “Song for My Father.”
In the 1970s he worked primarily for CTI Records, the most commercially successful jazz label of the period, where his discography included hit albums like Esther Phillips’s “What a Diff’rence a Day Makes” and Grover Washington Jr.’s “Mister Magic.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/
Norman Charles Pickering 1916-2015 USA
engineer, inventor and musician whose pursuit of audio clarity and beauty helped make phonograph records and musical instruments sound better
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Roger Scott Nichols 1944-2011 USA
recording engineer whose meticulous studio work with Steely Dan and others earned him seven Grammy Awards
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/18/
Ray M. Dolby 1933-2013 USA
sound pioneer who founded Dolby Laboratories,
(he) revolutionized the recording industry with the invention of the Dolby noise-reduction system, and transformed cinema and home entertainment with the development of Dolby digital surround sound
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