In 1989, Arista Records launched Arista Nashville, which specializes in country music artists. Alan Jackson was the first act signed label. In 1995, Arista Nashville launched a subsidiary label known as Career Records, the roster of which at the time included Brett James, Tammy Graham, and Lee Roy Parnell.Currently, Arista Nashville falls under the wing of Sony Music Nashville, …

Island Records is a multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group.It was founded in 1959 by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong in Jamaica, and was eventually sold to PolyGram in 1989. Island and A&M Records, another label recently acquired by PolyGram, were both at the time the largest independent record labels in history, with Island having …

The label's original releases were albums that Grusin and Rosen bought or licensed from Arista Records as well as other label's such as Polydor, JVC Japan and Elektra from artists such as Dave Valentin (who was the label's first signing), Lee Ritenour, Tom Browne, Jay Hoggard, Scott Jarrett and Grusin himself.

Horses is the debut studio album by American musician Patti Smith.It was released on November 10, 1975 by Arista Records.A fixture of the mid-1970s underground rock music scene in New York City, Smith signed to Arista in 1975 and recorded Horses with her band at Electric Lady Studios in August and September of that year. She enlisted former Velvet Underground …

Marie Dionne Warwick (/ d i ˈ ɒ n /; born December 12, 1940) is an American singer, actress, and television host.. Warwick ranks among the 40 biggest U.S. hit makers between 1955 and 1999, based on her chart history on Billboard's Hot 100 pop singles chart. She is the second-most charted female vocalist during the rock era (1955–1999). She is also one of the most-charted …

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as digital distribution.Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl long-playing (LP) records played at 33 + …

Relentless Records is a British boutique and independent record label currently headed by co-founder Shabs Jobanputra. Originally known for UK garage singles such as Artful Dodger's " Re-Rewind " and B-15 Project's " Girls Like Us ", Relentless has also published albums by Joss Stone , KT Tunstall , Union of Knives and Cage the Elephant .

The Alan Parsons Project was a British rock band active between 1975 and 1990, whose core membership consisted of producer, audio engineer, musician and composer Alan Parsons and singer, songwriter and pianist Eric Woolfson.They were accompanied by varying session musicians and some relatively consistent session players such as guitarist Ian Bairnson, …

The KLF (also known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, the JAMs, the Timelords and other names) are a British electronic band formed in London in 1987. Bill Drummond (alias King Boy D) and Jimmy Cauty (alias Rockman Rock) began by releasing hip hop-inspired and sample-heavy records as the JAMs.As the Timelords, they recorded the British number-one single "Doctorin' …

Buddah Records (later known as Buddha Records) was an American record label founded in 1967 in New York City. The label was born out of Kama Sutra Records, an MGM Records-distributed label, which remained a key imprint following Buddah's founding.Buddah handled a variety of music genres, including bubblegum pop (the Ohio Express and the 1910 Fruitgum …