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Fantasy Records

Parent company	Concord Music Group
Founded	1949
Founder(s)	Max Weiss, Sol Weiss
Distributing label	Concord Records (In the US), Universal Music Group
Genre(s)	Various
Country	US
Web address	Fantasy

1968 label of debut CCR LP

Fantasy Records is a United States based record label, which was founded by Max and Sol Weiss in 1949 in San Francisco, California. Concord Music Group is a record company formed in 2004 by the merger of Concord Records and Fantasy Records. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Concord Records is a US Record label now based in Beverly Hills California. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Universal Music Group (UMG is the largest Business group and family of Record labels in the Recording industry. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Creedence Clearwater Revival (often abbreviated CCR) was an American Rock and roll band who gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with The United States of America —commonly referred to as the In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city They had previously operated a record pressing plant called Circle Record Company (unrelated to the Circle Records label) before forming the Fantasy label. A Circle Record by Lizzie Miles Circle Records The early years of the company were dedicated to issuing recordings by Dave Brubeck, Cal Tjader, Vince Guaraldi and other jazz music artists. David Warren Brubeck (born December 6, 1920 in Concord California) better known as Dave Brubeck, is an American jazz pianist Callen Radcliffe Tjader Jr aka Cal Tjader ( July 16 1925 &ndash May 5 1982) was a Latin jazz Musician, though Vince Guaraldi ( July 17, 1928 – February 6, 1976) was an American Jazz Musician and Pianist Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States The label was the first to record "in person" performances by Lenny Bruce. Lenny Bruce (October 13 1925 &ndash August 3 1966 born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was an American Stand-up comedian, Writer, social

Fantasy's first subsidiary label, formed in 1951, was Galaxy Records. Galaxy Records was a subsidiary of Fantasy Records. It was established in 1951 and has been reactived several times The labels were named in honor of fantasy and science fiction magazines. Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting In the mid-1950s, Saul Zaentz joined the company and eventually instigated the company's major expansion. Saul Zaentz (ˈzænts born February 28, 1921) is an American Film producer and former record company executive In 1965, another subsidiary label was formed which was short lived, Scorpio Records, in an attempt to capitalize on the British invasion sound. The British Invasion was the term applied by the news media — and subsequently by consumers — to the influx of Rock and roll, beat and pop performers [1] In 1967 Zaentz led a consortium which bought out the Weiss brothers. The following year, Fantasy's most successful act emerged when the local group Creedence Clearwater Revival, which he managed, released their first hit record "Susie Q" in 1968 (the group had been signed in 1964 as the Blue Velvets, but the label renamed them The Golliwogs so they would "fit in" with the then new incoming crop of British Invasion bands, and after a series of failed releases under that name on the Fantasy and Scorpio labels,[2] the group changed its name to Creedence Clearwater Revival). Creedence Clearwater Revival (often abbreviated CCR) was an American Rock and roll band who gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with The Golliwogs was an American rock band which eventually became Creedence Clearwater Revival. Creedence Clearwater Revival was the most popular band that they produced.

Zaentz, advised by the journalist Ralph J. Gleason and benefitting from profits from the sales of Creedence Clearwater Revival records, pursued a policy of acquisition concentrating on independent Jazz labels. Ralph J Gleason (1917-1975 was an influential American Jazz and pop music critic Zaentz had picked up Debut Records as a wedding present from bassist Charles Mingus to which were added Good Time Records, Prestige Records (in 1971), Riverside Records and Milestone Records (both 1972), Stax Records (1977), Contemporary Records (1984), Specialty Records (1991), Pablo Records (1987), Takoma Records and Kicking Mule Records (both 1995). Debut Records was a United States Jazz Record label, which was founded in 1952 by Bassist Charles Mingus, his then-wife Charles Mingus ( 22 April 1922 &ndash 5 January 1979) was an American Jazz Bassist, Composer, Good Time Jazz was an American Jazz record label The label was founded in 1949 by Lester Koenig in Los Angeles; its first releases were from the Prestige Records was a Record label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock ( October 2, 1928 &ndash January 14, 2006) Riverside Records a United States Record label specializing in Jazz, was the raison d'etre for Bill Grauer Productions Milestone Records is a United States based Jazz Record label, founded in 1966 by Orrin Keepnews and Dick Katz in New Stax Records is an American record label founded in 1957 originally based out of Memphis Tennessee. Contemporary Records was a jazz record label founded by Lester Koenig in 1951 in Los Angeles. Specialty Records was an American Record label based in Los Angeles Pablo Records was a Record label founded See also List of record labels Kicking Mule Records was a Record label founded in 1972 by Stefan Grossman and Eugene "ED" Denson, who had previously been a co-founder

Fantasy also built its landmark headquarters building at the corner of Tenth and Parker in Berkeley, California in 1971 which was nicknamed "the house that Creedence built". Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. [3] Expanded in 1980 to house Zaentz's film operations, the Zaentz Media Center was sold in 2007 to Wareham Development.

In 2004, Fantasy was sold to a consortium led by Norman Lear and merged with Concord Records to create a new company called Concord Music Group. Norman Milton Lear (born July 27 1922 in New Haven Connecticut) is an American Television writer and producer who produced such popular Concord Records is a US Record label now based in Beverly Hills California. While some operations are still located in Berkeley, the record label is now headquartered at the Concord Music Group location in Beverly Hills, California. Fantasy Studios, now owned by Wareham Development, is still operating in the Zaentz Media Center and continues its legacy in recording and mixing. Through the reshuffling, many top acts and engineers alike work out of the original building, which has now incorporated a multitude of mixed media projects. Fantasy Studios is a Bay Area landmark, as well as an award-winning studio whose repertoire includes Creedence Clearwater Revival, Green Day and Carlos Santana to NPR's "Hearing Voices" series. Green Day is an American rock trio For the Costa Rican football player see Carlos Santana (footballer; for the Mexican academic see Carlos Santana Morales. Top sound engineers Steven Hart, Jesse Nichols and James Willets all worked at Fantasy.

Shortly after Fantasy was purchased by Concord, John Fogerty, the lead singer and songwriter in Creedence Clearwater Revival, re-signed with the label after leaving it in the mid-1970s after a falling out with former owner Zaentz. John Cameron Fogerty (born May 28, 1945) is an American rock singer Songwriter, and Guitarist, best known for his

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