Reprise Records is an American record label founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra. It is owned by Warner Music Group, and operates through Warner Records, one of its flagship labels.
"Tricolor" label, used by Reprise until 1968. (Label to the Kinks' Something Else.)
"Two-tone orange" label used by Reprise during the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts merger from 1968 to 1969. (Label to Jimi Hendrix's Smash Hits.) After the Kinney National Company took over Warner Bros. in 1969, the orange tone at the top of the label was changed to the same tone as on the rest of the label, the W7 box logo was removed and the circled :r logo (an artistic representation of a repeat symbol in music notation) became a boxed logo without the "Reprise" designation.
Red label, used by Reprise throughout the 1980s. (Label to Neil Young's Decade.)
Francis Albert Sinatra was an American singer, conductor, and actor. Nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and "Ol' Blue Eyes", he is regarded as one of the most influential entertainers of the 20th c
Reprise Records
…Reprise Records is an American record label founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra. It is owned by Warner Music Group, and operates through Warner Records, one of its flagship labels. Artists currently signed to Reprise Records include…
Sinatra at age three, c. 1918–1919
Sinatra (far right) with the Hoboken Four on Major Bowes' Amateur Hour in 1935
Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey in Ship Ahoy (1942)