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Happy Tiger Records was an independent American record label that was owned by the Flying Tiger Line air freight company. [1] [2] Happy Tiger operated from 1969 to 1971.During this time the label produced more than two dozen albums by Count Basie, Mason Proffit, Red Rhodes, Priscilla Paris, Paul Kelly, and the Anita Kerr Singers.
This helped their second Happy Tiger album, Movin' Toward Happiness, chart on the Billboard 200. Wanted was nominated for Best Album Cover for the 1971 Grammy Awards, and was mistakenly listed under the title Mason Proffit. [4] In 1972, the band signed to Warner Bros. Records and continued touring, performing up to 300 concerts each year.
Era distributed other labels, including Monogram, Gregmark, and Eden. From 1969 to 1971, Era was associated with Happy Tiger, which reissued and distributed some of Era's oldies. In 1972, Newman added the RTV label which released the psychedelic album Mu.
Jerry Cole started Happy Tiger Records with producer-manager Ray Ruff in 1969. As one of Ruff's acts – a post- Van Morrison line-up of Them – had just broken up, Cole joined the band for their self-titled 1970 hard rock album for the label, credited as lead vocalist, guitarist and drummer alongside uncredited musicians Ry Cooder , Johnny ...
They finally split up shortly after its release on the Happy Tiger label in early 1970. Jim Donlinger and Michael Been, together with former Exceptions member Marty Grebb, then joined the band Lovecraft (previously H. P. Lovecraft). Been later formed The Call. [2]
Happy the Tiger at the Constan Car Wash in Columbia in April 1967. Constan has long been a full-service automated car wash, one where the customers wait in the lobby as the car passes through the ...
Joanie Sommers (born Joan Drost, February 24, 1941) [1] is an American singer and actress with a career concentrating on jazz, standards and popular material and show-business credits.
Crown; Countryside; Exact; Happy Tiger; Alshire Musical artist Orville J. Rhodes , better known as Red Rhodes or O. J. Rhodes (December 30, 1930 – August 20, 1995), was an American pedal steel guitarist .