Casablanca Records
| Описание: | [b]Casablanca Records, Inc.[/b] was formed in 1973 by former [l=Buddah Records] executives [a288481] (who named the label as an homage to the classic film [i]Casablanca[/i]), [a=Cecil Holmes], Larry Harris and Buck Reingold. Casablanca's first major signing was [a=Kiss]. Casablanca became most successful as a disco label, signing artists like [a=Donna Summer], [a=Giorgio Moroder], the [a=Village People], [a=Brooklyn Dreams], [a=Patti Brooks] and [a=Lipps, Inc.] (with lead vocalist [a=Cynthia Johnson]) as well as [a=Four Tops, The], [a=Cher], [a=Irene Cara], [a=Captain and Tennille], [a=Dr. Hook], [a=Mac Davis] and [a=George Clinton]'s great [a=P-Funk] band [a=Parliament]. The company expanded into motion picture production in 1977 merging with Filmworks, Inc. (a small film production company headed by Peter Guber), renaming itself [l=Casablanca Record And Filmworks, Inc.]. Also the label changed and denoted now [l=Casablanca Record And Filmworks] with a different artwork, showing filmworks. With Guber in charge of the new film division, Casablanca co-produced the films [i]The Deep[/i], the Oscar-winning [i]Midnight Express[/i] ([a=Giorgio Moroder] won an Academy Award for Best Original Score) and the now-cult classic disco movie [i]Thank God It's Friday[/i] with Columbia Pictures. Neil Bogart sold his remaining interests in the label to Dutch-German multinational record company [l=PolyGram] (which had purchased 50% of the label three years earlier) in 1980 after financial difficulties and poor sales performance seriously drained the company. Bogart soon after launched a new independent label, [l=Boardwalk Records], but soon became ill. He died of cancer on May 8, 1982. That same year, PolyGram bought [l=20th Century Fox Records] and merged its catalog into Casablanca, moving [a=Leon Haywood], [a=Carl Carlton] and [a=Stephanie Mills] onto the label. The label stopped releasing new material (apart from movie soundtrack albums and later [a=Animotion] releases) in 1984. In 1986 it was phased out completely, although the brand kept appearing on catalog reissues. As its replacement, Mercury Record Productions, Inc. revived [l=Wing Records]. In 2000, the name was revived for a joint venture between [l=Universal Music Group] and [a=Tommy Mottola]. In a [i]Billboard[/i] article, Mottola said that he chose the name as an homage to the original label, but that there was no direct connection between the old and new labels. The present-day [b]Casablanca Records[/b] is a part of [l=Universal Motown] Records Group. Labelcode: LC 3272 |
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Harold Faltermeyer,Steve Stevens - Top Gun Anthem | Ray Conniff - Ноктюрн (Ф. Шопен) | Type O Negative - Haunted | Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting (Longer Ultratraxx Remix) | Junko Yagami - 夜間飛行 | Anthem - Danger Flight | Type O Negative - Untitled | NBSPLV - Imprint | Облачный Край - Мать Порядка | S U R V I V E - Hourglass | ABBA - Summer Night City | Type O Negative - The Glorious Liberation | Type O Negative - Cinnamon Girl | Type O Negative - Burnt Flowers Fallen | Raffaella Carrà - Pedro | Аркадий Кобяков - Я лишь прохожий | Bernard Allison - Leave Your Ego | Bernard Allison - Blues Party | Bernard Allison - Hey Lady | Bernard Allison - Look Out Mabel | Bernard Allison - You're Gonna Need Me | Bernard Allison - Castle | Bebe Rexha - Blue Moon | Harry Gregson-Williams - Coming Back to You (Song) | Europe - Words Of Wisdom | ABBA - Does Your Mother Know | ABBA - Voulez-Vous | ABBA - I Have A Dream | ABBA - Angeleyes | ABBA - The King Has Lost His Crown
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