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Roulette Records was an American record company and label founded in 1957 by George Goldner, Joe Kolsky, Morris Levy and Phil Kahl, with creative control given to producers and songwriters Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore. Levy was appointed director.
A part owner of Roulette Records, Vastola was the listed songwriter on several doo-wop hits from the 1950s and 1960s, including The Valentines song "Lily Maebelle", The Cleftones song "You Baby You", and The Wrens song "Hey Girl". During this period, Vastola also engaged in the counterfeiting of music records, netting him a $500,000 profit.
Levy was played by Paul Mazursky in the 1998 film Why Do Fools Fall in Love, and he was an inspiration for the HBO television series The Sopranos (1999–2007) character Hesh Rabkin [46] —who made a fortune defrauding mostly R&B performers, underpaying royalties, pressing unauthorized records, and who owned lavish New Jersey horse-racing stables.
In December 1988, Canterino and Morris Levy, president of Roulette Records, were convicted of conspiring to extort $1.25 million from Pennsylvania record producer Frank LaMonte in Camden, New Jersey. [3] Canterino was sentenced to 12 years in prison. [4] On May 31, 1990, Canterino was indicted for racketeering in the Windows Case. [5]
The Making of the Mob is an American television docu-series detailing the emergence of organized crime in 20th-century America. The series premiered on June 15, 2015, on AMC, and is narrated by actor Ray Liotta. The series also features intercuts within each episode of archival footage and interviews with historians, authors, actors, law ...
Hugo & Luigi were also onetime co-owners of Roulette Records. Songs composed by the duo were often credited to "Mark Markwell", and records they produced carried their distinct logo. While at Roulette Hugo and Luigi did a series of Beautiful Music recordings of "Cascading Voices" and later "Cascading Strings."
Hugo E. Peretti (December 6, 1916 – May 1, 1986) was an American songwriter, trumpeter, and record producer.. Born in New York City to an Italian American family, Peretti began his music career as a teenager, playing the trumpet in the Borscht Belt in upstate New York.
Big Beat Records was acquired by Atlantic Records in 1991, with a substantial amount of artists joining the label in 1998. [3] Big Beat's artists included Lil' Kim (under the Big Beat label with The Notorious B.I.G. called Undeas ), Changing Faces , Robin S. , Fat Joe , Junior Mafia , Artifacts , Jomanda , Double X Posse , Inner Circle, The ...