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| Parent company | Warner Music Group |
| Founded | 1960 |
| Founder | Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin |
| Distributing label | Warner Bros. Warner Music Group (WMG is the third-largest of the "big four" major record labels, the others being Sony BMG, EMI, and Universal Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (December 12 1915 &ndash May 14 1998 was an American singer and actor Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7 1917 &ndash December 25 1995 was an American Singer, Film Actor, television personality Records (U.S.) WEA (outside the U.S.) |
| Genre | Various |
| Country of origin | U.S. |
| Official website | Official Web site of Reprise Records |
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Company history
Reprise was formed in 1960[1] by Frank Sinatra in order to allow more artistic freedom for his own recordings. Events January 14 - Elvis Presley is promoted to Sergeant in the U Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (December 12 1915 &ndash May 14 1998 was an American singer and actor Hence, he garnered the nickname "The Chairman of the Board. " Having left Capitol/EMI and, after trying to buy Norman Granz's Verve Records, the first album Sinatra released on Reprise was Ring-A-Ding-Ding. Capitol Records is a major United States -based Record label owned by EMI and located in Hollywood California and New York City as The EMI Group is a British music company comprising the major record company EMI Music – which operates several labels and is based in Kensington in Norman Granz ( Los Angeles, USA, August 6, 1918 - Geneva, Switzerland, November 22, 2001) was an American Verve Records is an American Jazz Record label now owned by the Universal Music Group. Ring-A-Ding-Ding is an album by Frank Sinatra, released in 1961 Fellow Rat Pack members Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. also moved to the label. The Rat Pack was a group of popular entertainers most active between the mid-1950s and mid-1960s Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7 1917 &ndash December 25 1995 was an American Singer, Film Actor, television personality Samuel George “Sammy” Davis Jr (8 December 1925 &ndash 16 May 1990 was an American Entertainer. Stand-up comedian Redd Foxx also recorded for the label during its fledgling years. Redd Foxx ( December 9, 1922 – October 11, 1991) born John Elroy Sanford, His father an Electrician, left the family As CEO of Reprise, Frank Sinatra recruited a host of his cronies for the fledgling label. The original roster from 1961 to 63 included such names as Bing Crosby, Jo Stafford, Rosemary Clooney and Esquivel! The label still issues any Sinatra work recorded while on the label and, after his death in 1998, it had great success with his greatest hits collections.
One of the label's founding principles under Sinatra's leadership was that each artist would have full creative freedom, and at some point complete ownership of their work; including publishing rights. This is the reason why recordings of early Reprise artists (Dean Martin, Jimi Hendrix, The Kinks, etc. The Kinks were an English pop and rock group formed in 1963 and categorised in the US as a British Invasion band ) are (in most cases) currently distributed through other labels. In Martin's case, his Reprise recordings were out of print for nearly 20 years before a deal was struck with Capitol Records.
Reprise was sold to Warner Bros. Records in early 1963. Warner Bros Records Inc is an American Record label that operates as a wholly owned Subsidiary of Warner Music Group. Many of the older artists were dropped when Sinatra sold control of the label to Warner Bros. in 1963. At that point, label executives began targeting younger acts beginning with the Kinks in 1964. Reprise would later add teen-oriented pop acts like Dino, Desi, & Billy and Nancy Sinatra, before moving almost exclusively to pop-oriented music in the late 1960s. Dino Desi & Billy was a 1960s singing group featuring "Dino" Martin ( Dean Paul Martin, the son of traditional pop singer Dean Martin Nancy Sandra Sinatra (born June 8, 1940, in Jersey City New Jersey) is an American Singer and actress. In the time since, Warner Bros. has often treated Reprise as a bit of a secondary parent label, as many of its subsidiary labels, such as Straight and Kinetic, have had their records released in conjunction with Reprise. Straight Records was a Record label formed in 1969 to distribute productions and discoveries of Frank Zappa and his business partner/manager Herb Cohen Kinetic Records was a New York City -based Record label that featured releases from artists such as BT, Deepsky, Tilt, Timo Maas
In the late 1970s, as Joni Mitchell and Captain Beefheart had left the label, Sinatra expressed a wish to be the sole artist on Reprise, but Neil Young refused to leave. Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7 1943) is a Canadian Musician, Songwriter, and Don Van Vliet (born Donald Glen Vliet on January 15 1941, in Glendale California, U Neil Percival Young OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian Singer-songwriter, Musician Mitchell returned to the label in the late 1980s after a stint on Geffen Records but now records for Hear Music. Hear Music is the brand name of Starbucks ' retail music concept and Record label. Young remains on Reprise to this day, though he also recorded for Geffen in the 1980s.
Warner Brothers shut down the Reprise imprint in 1977 , and all existing Reprise artists were tranferred to Warner Brothers . Although Warner continued to issue older catalog albums on Reprise , there was no new Reprise product until the label was reactivated in 1988,. with several successful Warner Brothers artists , including the B-52s and Randy Travis, being transferred to that label . The B-52's originated as a New Wave Rock band formed in Athens Georgia, United States, in 1976 Randy Travis (born Randy Bruce Traywick, May 4, 1959 in Marshville North Carolina) is an American multiple Grammy Award - and
Today, in addition to Young, it is home to such artists as Michael Bublé, The Smashing Pumpkins, Avenged Sevenfold, The Used, Mastodon, Eric Clapton, Green Day, Fleetwood Mac, Josh Groban, My Chemical Romance and Disturbed. Michael Steven Bublé (ˈbuːbleɪ or boo-BLAY (born 9 September, 1975) is a Canadian Big band singer and Actor. The Smashing Pumpkins are an American Alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988 Avenged Sevenfold is an American Hard rock band formed in 1999 in Huntington Beach California. The Used is a rock band from Orem Utah, USA. Their sound has been classified under many genres and subgenres of rock Mastodons or Mastodonts (from Greek μαστός and οδούς, meaning " Nipple tooth" are members of the extinct Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945 is an English Blues-rock Guitarist, singer Songwriter and Composer Green Day is an American rock trio Fleetwood Mac are a British / American My Chemical Romance (often shortened to MCR or' My Chem') is an American alternative / post-hardcore quintet that formed in 2001 Disturbed is an American Heavy metal band from Chicago, Illinois. Reprise is also the North American label for British band Depeche Mode. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Depeche Mode (dəˌpɛʃˈmoʊd are an English Electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex.
It was formerly home to the Jimi Hendrix and the Barenaked Ladies' catalogs in the U.S.
Reprise Records artists
Subsidiaries
- Kinetic Records (1992–2000)
- Grand Jury Records (1990–1993)
- Vapor Records (1995–present; current status unknown)
- Elementree Records (1995–2000)
- In Bloom Records (1998–2000)
- Chrysalis Records (1969-1972)
References
- ^ Reprise Records story. James Marshall Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix) (November 27 1942 – September 18 1970 was an American Guitarist, Singer and Songwriter Barenaked Ladies (often abbreviated BNL or occasionally BnL) is a Juno -winning and Grammy -nominated Canadian Alternative The United States of America —commonly referred to as the This is a list of current artists who record for Reprise Records, or one of its associated labels This is a list of artists who used to record for Reprise Records. Kinetic Records was a New York City -based Record label that featured releases from artists such as BT, Deepsky, Tilt, Timo Maas Korn, occasionally typeset as KoЯn or KoRn, is an American Nu metal band from Bakersfield California, and is often credited with popularizing Chrysalis Records was a British Record label that was created in 1969
See also
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