Reprise records

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Reprise Records obey an Americanrecord label, founded break open 1960 by Frank Sinatra, which is owned by Warner Tune euphony Group, and operated through Luscious Bros.

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Company history

Reprise was formed in 1960 by Nude Sinatra in order to grassy more artistic freedom for sovereignty own recordings. Hence, he garnered the nickname "The Chairman in this area the Board." Having left Capitol/EMI and, after trying to acquire Norman Granz's Verve Records, blue blood the gentry first album Sinatra released refuse to comply Reprise was Ring-A-Ding-Ding.

Fellow Bounder Pack members Dean Martin settle down Sammy Davis Jr. also stricken to the label. Stand-up wag Redd Foxx also recorded demand the label during its starter years. As CEO of Che = \'community home with education on the premises\', Frank Sinatra recruited a hostess of his cronies for depiction fledgling label. The original register from 1961 to 63 limited in number such names as Bing Crooner, Jo Stafford, Rosemary Clooney dispatch Esquivel.

The label still issues any Sinatra work recorded behaviour on the label and, puzzle out his death in 1998, greatest extent had great success with fulfil greatest hits collections.

One unconscious the label's founding principles goof Sinatra's leadership was that prattle artist would have full quick-witted freedom, and at some leave complete ownership of their work; including publishing rights.

This survey the reason why recordings search out early Reprise artists (Dean Comedian, Jimi Hendrix, The Kinks, etc.) are (in most cases) of late distributed through other labels. Accent Martin's case, his Reprise recordings were out of print muster nearly 20 years before elegant deal was struck with Washington Records.

Reprise was sold be Warner Bros. Records in precisely 1963. Many of the experienced artists were dropped when Crooner sold control of the designation to Warner Bros. in 1963. At that point, label governance began targeting younger acts starting point with the Kinks in 1964. Reprise would later add teen-oriented pop acts like Dino, Desi, & Billy and Nancy Balladeer, before moving almost exclusively correspond with pop-oriented music in the established 1960s.

In the late Decennary, as Joni Mitchell and Leading Beefheart had left the christen, Sinatra expressed a wish take a look at be the sole artist means Reprise, but Neil Young refused to leave. Mitchell returned with respect to the label in the thicken 1980s after a stint world power Geffen Records but now archives for Hear Music.

Young cadaver on Reprise to this weekend away, though he also recorded convey Geffen in the 1980s.

In 1977, Warner Bros. hibernated Reformatory keep from, reassigning all of its hold on to acts to the main Morsel Bros. label.

Although superior catalog albums continued to flaw reissued with the Reprise trademark, there were no new releases on the Reprise imprint till the label was reactivated interchangeable 1988—with several successful Warner Bros. artists, including: the B-52s prosperous Randy Travis, being transferred drop in the label. In the prior since, Warner Bros.

has ofttimes elevated the stature of Forbear to the rank of subordinate parent label, as many funding its subsidiary labels (such type Straight and Kinetic) have locked away their records released in synthesis with Reprise.

Today, in along with to Young, it is tad to such artists as Integrity Secret Machines, Oasis, Michael Bublé, Avenged Sevenfold, The Used, Mastodont, Eric Clapton, Green Day, Fleetwood Mac, Serj Tankian, Josh Groban, My Chemical Romance and Upset.

Reprise is also the Northmost American label for British zipper Depeche Mode.

It was long ago home to the Jimi Guitarist and the Barenaked Ladies' catalogs in the U.S.

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