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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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32 Records
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32 Records was a record label established in 1995 by producer Joel Dorn and attorney Robert Miller. Its 32 Jazz imprint released a series of compilation albums. The label was named for Dorns favorite sports number,32 Records also released new material by artists such as The Jazz Passengers, and established 32 R&B,32 Blues,32 Groove and 32 Pop subsidiaries. 32 Records acquired the holdings of the Muse and Landmark labels, during the late 1990s,32 Jazz released a successful series of inexpensive Jazz for… compilations. The first of these, Jazz for a Rainy Afternoon, was released in 1997 in conjunction with Elle, in 1999,32 Jazz had become the top jazz label in the Billboard charts, before Verve Music Group merged its Verve and GRP holdings into a single output. By 2000, Miller had become CEO of CDBeat, which owned 32 Records as a subsidiary, in March 2000, Dorn resigned from the company. Upon Dorns departure, CDBeat announced that it would discontinue 32 Records by March 2001, CDBeat, in turn, would become Spinrocket and then ConnectivCorp. Savoy Jazz acquired the rights to the Muse and Landmark catalogs from 32 Records in October 2003, source,32 Jazz, A Checklist 32 Records discography at Discogs
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300 Entertainment
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300 Entertainment is a record label founded by Lyor Cohen, Roger Gold, Kevin Liles and Todd Moscowitz. The label is distributed by Atlantic Records, Cohen, Liles, and Moscowitz had also worked together at Def Jam, which Cohen ran in the 80s and 90s. It was announced on March 26,2014, that singer Eric Bellinger signed to 300 Entertainment, in early 2014, Lyor Cohen quietly signed Conrad Sewell after he knew that Sewell was passed on by most of the major labels. The day after signing with 300, the Australian singer received offers from virtually every label that passed on him for in some cases Well over $1 million, although automatically being listed on the Atlantic Records roster after signing to 300. Some artist on the 300 Entertainment roster arent distributed by Atlantic Records, the investment agreements were pulled together by media investment banker Aryeh Bourkoff and Ori Winitze] of LionTree. In 2014,300 announced +1 Records had become an official label of the company. In November 2016,300 premiered the Birth of a New Nation tour which featured artists Dae Dae, Shy Glizzy, in November 2016, Young Thug started YSL Records as an imprint under 300 Entertainment
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415 Records
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415 Records was a San Francisco record label created in 1978. The label focused its efforts on local rock and new wave music acts of the late 1970s through the late 1980s, including The Offs, The Nuns, The Units, Romeo Void. Its name, pronounced four-one-five, was a play on both the area code for the San Francisco area and the California penal code section for disturbing the peace. The label had a partnership with Columbia Records from 1981 until shortly before it was sold in 1989 to Sandy Pearlman. 415 Records was founded in San Francisco in 1978 by entrepreneurs Howie Klein, Chris Knab, Klein was a writer and entertainment promoter, Knab owned an eclectic record store in the Noe Valley section of San Francisco Aquarius Records, and Bridges was a music collector and retailer. Klein and Knab had become friends when Klein did some photography for his friend Harvey Milk and they worked together on various radio shows around the Bay Area, including an alternative radio show on KSAN, and they started recording and promoting local musicians out of Knabs record store. The British label Stiff Records had done two years earlier, marketing Englands emergent 1970s pub rock scene as punk and new wave. 415 Records enjoyed early and sustained support from Bill Graham and from David Rubinson, Queenie Taylor, long an employee of Bill Graham Presents, purchased Butch Bridges share of 415 Records in 1979. Even so, he continued to produce records for artists on the 415 label, 415s first release was a 1978 single by The Offs, entitled Everyones a Bigot, with 0° on the B-side. Subsequent early releases included 7 EPs by SVT, The Nuns, and Pearl Harbor and the Explosions Drivin. Later records included a 7 by The Mutants, an album by The Units, a 12 33⅓ RPM album by Romeo Void, a mini-album by New Math, many other independent labels would form similar alliances with major labels over the coming decades. 415 retained full control over which artists to sign, all recording. In the early 1980s, Queenie Taylor had begun managing Wolfgangs nightclub in San Francisco, five artists that Levitin was supervising at 415 were turned down by Columbia for the 415/Columbia partnership, The Stir-Ups, The Big Race, The Scene, The Afflicted and Rhythm Riot. With Howies blessing, Levitin completed the production for the two and sold the distribution rights to a different independent label, San Franciscos Infrasonic Records. In 1989 Howie Klein was named General Manager of Reprise Records in Burbank CA, three months later, Sandy Pearlman bought 415 records and named Tom Schedler head of its A&R department. By this time, Al Teller, who had been president of Columbia Records when the 415 partnership began, was now president of MCA Records, Pearlman changed the record labels name to Popular Metaphysics and formed a co-branding alliance with MCA, ending the 415 label. Howie Klein became President of Reprise and Executive Vice President of Warner Bros. Records in 1995 which he remained until retiring in 2001, Klein is now active in politics, writes a blog, downwithtyranny. com, and is working on a novel. Queenie Taylor had begun managing Wolfgangs nightclub in San Francisco in the early 1980s and later, in the early 1990s, managed Slims nightclub, daniel Levitin worked as an A&R representative for Columbia, RCA, Warner Bros
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A Cappella Records
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A Cappella Records is an American record label specializing in a cappella music. In 2010, the participated in the UCSCs business model competition, winning first place. A Cappella Records launched as a record label on May 19,2009. At that time, the participated in UCSCs first annual business model competition. Following their elimination from the 2009 USCS competition, they continued growing the label from an initial six albums to 25 artists,500 tracks, in 2010, the label returned to the business model competition and won first place, along with a $12,000 cash prize. That same year, the label represented four of the 10 groups competing on NBCs The Sing-Off, on April 3,2012, A Cappella Records launched its first sub-label, entitled Joypad Records
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A&M Octone Records
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A&M Octone Records was an American record label. It was a joint venture between Universal Music Group and Octone Records, the label represented a merger of Interscope-Geffen-A&Ms A&M Records defunct label with Octone Records. A full-service artist development label, A&M/Octone operated music publishing, merchandising and touring entities – in addition to specializing in recorded music, launched in 2000, Octone Records was founded by CEO/President James Diener and distributed through Sony BMG. After successful signing, release, marketing and promotion on Octone, artists were given the option of upstreaming to RCA Music Group, upon launch, Diener and Octone Records were also well known in the music industry for their entrepreneurial private-equity financing model. The existing Octone roster was transferred to the A&M/Octone label and all new artist signings were made under the A&M/Octone joint venture, the legal name of the A&M/Octone label was OctoScope Music, LLC, the name derives from the merger of the labels Octone and Interscope. OctoScope Music, LLC was the holder on all A&M/Octone releases. A&M/Octone Records operated from 2007 until 2014
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A&M Records
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A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent label by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962. Due to the success of the discography A&M released, the label garnered interest and was acquired by PolyGram in 1989. Today, A&Ms catalog releases are managed by Verve Records, Universal Music Enterprises, A&M Records was formed in 1962 by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss. Their first choice for a name was Carnival Records, under which they released two singles before discovering another label had already taken the Carnival name, the company was subsequently renamed A&M, after Alperts and Mosss initials. From 1966 to 1999, the headquarters were on the grounds of the historic Charlie Chaplin Studios at 1416 North La Brea Avenue. Marc Benno, Liza Minnelli, Rita Coolidge, Wes Montgomery, Paul Desmond, Bobby Tench, Hummingbird, Toni Basil, folk artists Joan Baez, Phil Ochs and Gene Clark also recorded for the label during the 1970s. Billy Preston joined the label in 1971, followed by Andre Popp, in the 1970s, under its manufacturing and distribution agreement with Ode Records, A&M released albums by Carole King and the comedy duo Cheech & Chong. On March 10,1977, A&M signed the Sex Pistols after the band had dropped by EMI. However, A&M dropped the band within a week, within a decade of its inception, A&M became the worlds largest independent record company. A&M releases were issued in the United Kingdom by EMIs Stateside Records label. From 1969, A&M set up their own UK base appointing John Deacon as General Manager - a post he held until 1979, A&M releases were also issued in Australia through Festival Records until 1989. A&M Records Ltd. was established in 1970, with distribution handled by other labels with a presence in Europe, A&M Records of Canada Ltd. was also formed in 1970, and A&M Records of Europe in 1977. In 1979, A&M entered an agreement with RCA Records in the USA. A&M was bought by PolyGram in 1989, Alpert and Moss continued to manage the label until 1993. In 1998, Alpert and Moss sued PolyGram for breach of the integrity clause, in 1991, A&M launched Perspective Records as a joint venture with producing team Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Jam and Lewis stepped down as CEOs of the imprint in 1997, in 1999, the label was absorbed into A&M. In the mid-1990s, A&M began distributing its PolyGram sister label Polydor Records in the USA, ceCe Peniston, Intelligent Hoodlum, Dred Scott, Ridel High and the Gin Blossoms. The company released the soundtracks Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, The Three Musketeers, Sabrina, The Living Sea, Demolition Man, and Lethal Weapon 3
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Abbott Records
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Abbott Records was an American record label operated by music promoter and producer Fabor Robison from 1951 to about 1958. After serving a stint in the U. S. Army during World War II, Arkansas native Fabor Robison settled in Southern California and began to work as a talent scout. Robison placed Horton on Cliffie Stones Hometown Jamboree program, based out of Pasadena, California, Robison also set up a recording deal for Horton with the tiny Cormac Records label, but that concern soon folded. Disgusted, Robison decided to found his own label and found an investor in pharmacist Sid Abbott. At first, Abbott Records existed solely to record Horton, also in 1952, Johnny Horton joined the cast of Louisiana Hayride, based out of KWKH in Shreveport, an association Horton would enjoy the rest of his days. Likewise, Robison discovered the talent pool at the Louisiana Hayride, Robison took a special interest in singer Jim Reeves, to such extent that Johnny Horton became aggravated with Robison and dropped him as manager, Robison countered by representing Reeves instead. Reeves records of Mexican Joe and Bimbo became the first chart hits on the Abbott Label, in 1953, Abbott was doing well enough that Fabor Robison was able to buy out the share of his partner, Sid Abbott. These artists included pianist Floyd Cramer, the Browns, Smiley Burnette, Dorsey Burnette and Mitchell Torok, many of these recordings featured members of the Louisiana Hayride house band as accompanists and were recorded at KWKH studios in Shreveport. Early Abbott issues bear an address in Malibu, and by the mid-1950s the label is listed as located in Hollywood, in 1955, Jim Reeves broke with Fabor Robison and signed with RCA Victor. The previous year, Robison had signed the DeCastro Sisters, whom to that point had largely functioned as the Cuban response to the Andrews Sisters, radio was not a success and folded after just 25 releases in 1959. Fabor Robison revived the Fabor imprint once more in 1962 to reissue Ned Millers From a Jack to a King which had originally recorded and released unsuccessfully in 1957. He kept this second Fabor label going until 1966, one of its last releases was a record by English actress Hermione Baddeley. Robisons record companies were singles outfits, the albums released by any of these companies were Jim Reeves Sings. Despite the confusion regarding the ultimate legacy of Abbott and its various subsidiaries as a legal entity, Abbott was the first label to have several major artists before they became famous, such as Jim Reeves or Billie Jo Spears. Abbott also brought to many lesser known figures of interest, such as Rudy Grayzell, Bonnie Guitar, Ginny Wright, Wink Lewis, Bob Stegall. As such, more obscure titles—particularly rockabilly items—on Abbott and its labels have long remained popular with record collectors. Robison has not been remembered by several of the artists who had business dealings with him. Rick Bass - Nashville Chrome, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,2010 Abbott Records 78 rpm discography Abbott discography and bio Fabor Robinson Biography Bonnie Guitar CMT Biography
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Adeline Records
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Adeline Records is a record label which was formed in Oakland, California in late 1997. It was created by Billie Joe Armstrong, lead singer of Green Day, Screw 32s Doug Sangalang, Green Day guitarist Jason White, Green Days management company, Pat Magnarella Management, now owns the label. Adeline Records was named after a street runs from The Port of Oakland through West Oakland and NOBE, terminating at Ward St. The range was called Adeline Street and included clothes, accessories and jewellery for men, women, the Adeline street logo is a skull and crossbones with a heart in the center of the crossed bones in pink for women and khaki for men. The clothing line ceased trading in 2008, list of record labels Official website
