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A&M Records

A&M RECORDS
 
 
A&M Records  was an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that operated as a unit under the mantle of its Interscope Geffen A&M subsidiary.  A&M Records was formed in 1962 by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss.  Within a decade of its inception, A&M became the world’s largest independent record company.   A&M was bought by PolyGram in 1989.  Alpert and Moss continued to manage the label until 1993.   (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
Although Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 was basically piggy-backing onto the success of Herb Alpert, the co-founder of his label A&M Records, the Latin-lite sounds were better than nothing for a pop-music mainstream that, for too many years, had been just a little too white-bread, at least in retrospect. 
 
(August 2010)
 
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Album labels are one way to help narrow down a search.  If you are an R.E.M. fan, then most of the albums on their label, I.R.S. Records will probably be to your liking as well.  A good punk rock label is Stiff Records; I have scarcely ever gone wrong with them.  A&M Records, the king of American independent record labels, has a wide variety of offbeat acts and some major artists as well (the “A” in the name is Herb Alpert). 
 
(November 2012)
 
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The bandmembers in Hookfoot met while working as house musicians at DJM Records, which had also signed Elton John in the same time period.  Caleb Quaye and Roger Pope were part of the backing band for Elton John on his debut album, Empty Sky (1969); and everyone in Hookfoot was on hand for his third album, Tumbleweed Junction (1970).  In 1972, Hookfoot released an album called Good Times A’ Comin’ on DJM Records (A&M Records in the States). 

 

(May 2014)

 

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Glenn Yarbrough had a #12 hit with a song that was arranged by David Gates, “Baby the Rain Must Fall”, the title song for the 1965 Steve McQueen/Lee Remick film Baby the Rain Must Fall.  The film is notable as the screen debut (uncredited) of Glen Campbell.  If that isn't eclectic enough for you, David Gates also produced two singles and wrote one song for Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band for A&M Records that were hits in the L.A. area. 

 

(January 2015/1)

 

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