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Bryan Turner is a Canadian–American entertainment executive and entrepreneur. He is perhaps best known for being the founder of Priority Records in 1985, which was “the country’s largest independent label in the mid-90s” according to the New York Times. [1]
Richard Dorian Goodman (April 19, 1934 – November 6, 1989), [1] was an American music and record producer. He is best known for inventing and using the technique of the "break-in", an early precursor to sampling, that used brief clips of popular records and songs to "answer" comedic questions posed by voice actors on his novelty records.
In 1985, he wrote the lyrics for and produced the Chicago Bears' novelty record, "The Super Bowl Shuffle". [ 4 ] In 1988, Meyer sued Ad Age magazine and its editor-at-large Joseph M. Winski [ 5 ] for libel after the magazine published an article alleging that Meyer was a heavy drinker and cocaine user.
Cameo-Parkway Records was the parent company of Cameo Records and Parkway Records, which were major American Philadelphia-based record labels from 1956 (for Cameo) and 1958 (for Parkway) to 1967. Among the types of music released were doo-wop , dance hits , popular/rock , rockabilly , big band , garage rock , soul and novelty records .
Bell Records was an American record label founded in 1952 in New York City by Arthur Shimkin, the owner of the children's record label Golden Records, [1] and initially a unit of Pocket Books, [2] after the rights to the name were acquired from Benny Bell who used the Bell name to issue risque novelty records. [3]
Jimmy Fallon has been obsessed with comedy and music since he was a Brooklyn kid staying up to record the Dr. Demento radio show on reel-to-reel tape. More from Spin: Quincy Jones, Legendary Music ...
Founded in 1978, [2] Rhino was originally a novelty and reissue label during the 1970s and 1980s. It released compilation albums of pop, rock & roll, and rhythm & blues successes from the 1950s through the 1980s, as well as novelty-song LPs (compiled in-house or by Dr. Demento) and retrospectives of famous comedy performers, including Richard Pryor, Stan Freberg, Tom Lehrer, and Spike Jones.
Leon Marcus Michels (born 1982) is an American music producer, record executive, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known as the leader of the eclectic soul project El Michels Affair and co-founder of Truth & Soul Records and Big Crown Records. [1]