- For the Canadian label with the same name, see White Whale Records (Canada)
White Whale Records is probably best known as the record label of The Turtles. In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music The Turtles are an American pop and Folk rock band which produced at least a dozen memorable radio-friendly chart singles but remain best known for White Whale was started in 1965 by Ted Feigin and Lee Lassiff in Los Angeles. See also Events January 4 - Fender Musical Instruments Corporation is sold to CBS for $13 million Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West The label also released some very early singles by Warren Zevon (as part of the duo Lyme & Cybele), who was also employed as a staff songwriter for the label. Warren William Zevon (January 24 1947 &ndash September 7 2003 was a Grammy Award -winning American rock Singer-songwriter and Musician They also released the only album by The Clique plus an album by Liz Damon's Orient Express. for other bands of that name see The Clique (band The Clique are a late 1960s U Liz Damon's Orient Express was a 1970s band from Hawaii, featuring lead Singer Liz Damon two female backup singers and a rotating backup band
When White Whale signed the Turtles, they were known as "The Crossfires"; a surf music band looking to change their style, as surf music was fading. Surf music is a Genre of Popular music associated with Surf culture, particularly Orange County and other areas of Southern California The label encouraged a name change to "The Tyrtles", in the manner of The Beatles and The Byrds. The Beatles were a pop and rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1960 The Byrds were a popular American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964 The band accepted the new name, but not the variant spelling. Relations between the label and the band were not always smooth, with White Whale pressuring the band for "more hits", then for singers Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman to fire the rest of the group, and work instead with hired musicians, to save costs. Howard Kaylan (born Howard Kaplan, 22 June 1947[http //wwwimdb Mark Volman (born April 19, 1947 in Los Angeles California) is an American Rock and roll singer best known as a founding member Kaylan wrote the song "Elenore" as a humorous take on "Happy Together" (the group's biggest hit), which ironically became a hit itself. He and Volman also democratized the group, insisting everyone share in the writing and vocal duties, despite what the label wanted.
When the Turtles disbanded, White Whale lost their big moneymaker, and the label went out of business in the early 1970s. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. White Whale's assets were sold at auction, including the Turtles's master recordings – whose winners were Kaylan and Volman, making them the owners of their own works. A master recording is an original Recording, from which copies may be made
Three compilations of singles from the label have been released on CD: "Happy Together: The Very Best of White Whale Records," and two volumes of the "Phantom Jukebox" series on Rev-Ola records [1].
In 1966 brother and sister act Nino Tempo and April Stevens recorded All Strung Out(on you) for the label, bringing Tempo's talents as Phil Spectors right hand man for so many years to the recording, it mid charted, but is still a powerful, but unheralded teen age symphony.
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