Cowboys and Indies: The Epic History of the Record Industry (57 page)

Nirvana

NME
magazine

Noble, Mike

Northern Songs

’N Sync

Numan, Gary

Nyro, Laura

Oberstein, Maurice “Obie”

Ode Records

Ohga, Norio

Okeh

Oldfield, Mike

Oldham, Andrew Loog

Andrew Oldham Orchestra

background

on Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone”

emulation of Spector

on entertainers in rock scene

Faithfull, Marianne

freelance promotion work

Immediate Records

Monterey Pop Festival

Rolling Stones

Small Faces

Oliver, King

O’Mahony, Sean

One Little Indian

101ers

opera and classical music

O’Rahilly, Ronan

Original Dixieland Jass Band

Orton, William

Ostin, Mo

on corporate interference

Hendrix, Jimi

as industry leader

Sex Pistols

Sinatra, Frank

Owen, William Barry

Pace, Harry

Paley, Bill

Palmer, Robert

Paramount

Parker, Charlie

Parker, Colonel Tom

Parks, Van Dyke

Parlophone

Patton, Charlie

Paul, Clarence

Pavitt, Bruce

Payne, James

Peel, John

Peer, Ralph

People’s Songs organization

Perkins, Carl

Perrin, Leslie

Philips manufacturing company

Philles Records

Phillips, John

Phillips, Sam.
See also
Sun Records

phonautograph

phonograph

Pickering, Mike

Pieper, Rudolf

Pillot, Michael

Pink Floyd

Platt, Tony

Pogues

Police

PolyGram

acquisitions

CD format

misfortunes

sale to Seagram

Universal Music Group merger

Poneman, Jon

Pop, Iggy

Posner, Mel

Presley, Elvis

Preuss, Oscar

Prevost, Charly

Price, Alan

Prince

Procol Harum

Prodigy

Prohibition

psychedelia and drug culture

in BBC radio service

California hippie culture

cocaine scene

drug use among pop stars

ecstasy

end of psychedelic era

musical drug references

as musical genre

Public Enemy

punk

R&B

embrace by white teenagers

labels featuring

payola for airplay

radio deejays in urban markets

rhythm and blues
name

race records

radio

boycotts of

British pirate-radio ships

impact on record companies

Marconi’s development of

public interest in

record company promotion to

teenagers’ enthusiasm for

U.S. Navy monopoly on

Raeben, Norman

Rainey, Ma

Ramone, Phil

Ramones

rave culture

RCA Victor.
See
Victor/RCA Victor

Reaction Records

Read, Mike

record industry.
See also specific individuals; specific labels

compact discs

consolidation

corporate values

disc formats

disc recording technology

eight-track recording

electrical recording

futuristic predictions

independent radio promoters

Internet file-sharing and downloading

Jewish influence

jukebox business

radio transmissions

start of

talking machines

360° total merchandising deals

record men.
See also specific individuals

accessibility to artists

A&R function

conviction in own judgment

heritage of musician patronage

pioneers

reverence for and role of

royalties for

Record Mirror

record stores.
See also
Rough Trade

big-box retailers’ impact on

compilation labels and sales

creation of consumer demand

fostering of indies

iTunes Store

in New Wave grassroots movement

New York specialist stores

Rector, Fred

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Reed, Lou

Reeves, Martha

Regehr, Bob

Regent Sound studio

REO Speedwagon

Reprise

rhythm and blues.
See
R&B

Richard, Cliff

Richards, Keith

Riviera, Jake

Roberts, Elliot

Robertson, Robbie

Robinson, Dave.
See also
Stiff Records

antimajor vision

with Blackwell and Island Records

founding of Stiff

on Jewish influence in record industry

marketing tactics

on theatricality of British music

on U2

Robinson, Lisa

Robinson, Smokey

Robinson, Sylvia

rock ’n’ roll

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Rodgers, Jimmie

Rodgers, Nile

Rolling Stone
magazine

Rolling Stones

albums

arrogance

Atlantic contract

CBS contract

Decca contract

drugs and legal problems

image

management

newspaper endorsement

Rolling Stones Records

singles

Stewart’s ouster

in teenage-parent conflict

television appearance

tour

Virgin contract

Ronettes

Ronson, Mick

Ronstadt, Linda

Rosner, Alex

Ross, Diana

Ross, Steve.
See also
Warner companies

Rothchild, Paul.
See also
Elektra

Crosby, Stills & Nash demo

on Dylan at Newport Folk Festival

on Elektra’s success

“Light My Fire” edit for radio

marijuana business

Rotten, Johnny

Rough Trade

collapse

distribution and incubation of indies

founding and philosophy of

restructure within Beggars Group

Rowe, Dick

Roxy Music

RPM

RSO

RTM

Ruff, Willie

Run-D.M.C.

Russell, Richard

Sacks, Manie

San Francisco Bulletin

Sarnoff, David

Sarnoff, Esme

Saturday Night Fever
(movie and soundtrack)

Schulhof, Mickey

Scott de Martinville, Édouard-Léon

Seagram

Seaman, Frank

Sebadoh

Seeger, Pete

Seligman & Speyer

Selvin, Ben

Sergio Mendes & Brazil ’66

Seven Arts.
See also
Warner companies

Sex Pistols

Sgt. Pepper
(album and movie)

Shapiro, Fred

Shaw, Artie

Shilkret, Nathaniel

Silverman, Tom

Simmons, Gene

Simmons, Russell

Simon, John

Simon & Garfunkel

Simonon, Paul

Sims, Danny

Sinatra, Frank

Sinclair, John

Sire Records

Sly & Robbie

Small, Millie

Small Faces

Smith, Bessie

Smith, Joe

Smith, Mamie

Smiths

Soft Cell

Solomon, Maynard and Seymour

Some Bizarre

Sony

Sooy, Raymond

Sounds
magazine

Souther, J. D.

Spears, Britney

Spector, Phil

Speir, Henry

Spencer, Len

Spencer Davis Group

Springsteen, Bruce

Stamp, Chris

Standard Talking Machine

Stanton, Frank

Starlight Wranglers

Steele, Tommy

Stein, Seymour

at
Billboard

on indies in record business

on Jewish influence in record industry

on Ramones and Talking Heads

Rough Trade indie licensing

scouting in London

Sire Records

on technological ignorance in record industry

on tradition of patronage in music

Sterling, Louis.
See also
Columbia/CBS; EMI Records

Stevens, Guy

Stewart, Ian

Stiff Records

Stigwood, Robert

business partnership with Epstein

as Cream manager

stage and film productions

Stills, Stephen

Stone, Henry

Stoneman, Ernest

Stooges

Stranglers

Stratton-Smith, Tony

Strummer, Joe

Sub Pop

Success Magazine

Sue Records

Sugarhill Gang

Sugar Hill Records

Sugerman, Danny

Summer, Donna

Sun Records

Supertramp

Supremes

Swan

synth-pop

Tainter, Charles Sumner

Talking Heads

Talking Machine World
magazine

Talmy, Shel

Tamla-Motown.
See
Motown

Taylor, Arthur

Taylor, Derek

Taylor, Vince

Teddy Bears

teenagers

appreciation of folk music

baby boomers

Beatlemania

bubblegum music

enthusiasm for radio and broadcasting

significance of Rolling Stones for

Summer of Love renaissance in record industry

white embrace of black music

telegraph and telephone technology

Terry, Sanford

Tesla, Nikola

Tharpe, Rosetta

Them

Thomas, Chris

Thomas, Rufus

Thorn-EMI

Thrasher, Ed

Time
magazine

Times-Picayune

Timmer, Jan

Tisch, Laurence

Tommy Boy

Tosh, Peter

Townshend, Pete

Track

Tradition Records

Traffic

Travis, Geoff

Truman, Gary

Tuna Fish Music

Turner, Ike

U2

UFO psychedelic concerts

United Artists

Universal Music Group

Vandross, Luther

Vanguard Records

vaudeville

V-Discs

Veeck, Mike

Velvet Underground

Vernon, Mike

Vicious, Sid

Victor/RCA Victor

artist boycott of radio

bootleg reissues

Caruso, Enrico

classical recordings

Dalhart, Vernon

EMI merger and licensing deal

Gluck, Alma

His Master’s Voice
logo

industry dominance

jazz recordings

jukebox business

marketing

overseas scouting

percentage-based artist royalties

Presley, Elvis

RCA, creation of

sale of RCA to Bertelsmann

sale of Victor to RCA

sale of Victor to Seligman & Speyer

studio recordings

technological innovations

Victor, creation of

Victorian values

Victrola

during wartime

Williams and Walker recordings

videos

Vidich, Paul

Village People

Vincent, John Heyl

Virgin Records

Carey, Mariah

global marketability

Human League

Island affiliation

Jackson, Janet

Rolling Stones

sale to Thorn-EMI

Sex Pistols

Tangerine Dream and Mike Oldfield

Tosh, Peter

XTC

Vivendi Universal

VJ

Wailers.
See
Marley, Bob

Waits, Tom

Wakefield, Ron

Walker, Frank

Walker, George

Wallerstein, Edward.
See also
Columbia/CBS

Wallichs, Glenn

Walmart

Walton, Lester

Wardlow, Bill

Warner companies

acquisitions

Beggars Banquet financing

boycott of independent radio promoters

Casablanca financing

cocaine culture

Creative Services division

Elektra/Asylum merger

Geffen’s projects

Grateful Dead

as independent in Hollywood

movie expansion into sound

Prince

Reprise sister label

sale to Seven Arts

WEA merger

Wasserman, Bert

Waters, Ethel

Watson, Thomas

Watts-Russell, Ivo

WEA.
See
Warner companies

Wein, George

Weisner, Ron

Wendall, Bruce

Wenham, Alison

West Coast.
See
California

Western Union

Westinghouse

Wexler, Jerry.
See also
Atlantic Records

on Afro-American culture

Atlantic Records post

on Beatles

as
Billboard
journalist

conflict with Geffen

on Crosby, Stills & Nash

on Led Zeppelin

pessimism

on psychedelia

on R&B market

on sale of Atlantic to Warner

White, Maurice

Whitter, Henry

Who

Wickham, Andy

Williams, Bert

Wilson, Brian

Wilson, Jackie

Wilson, Mary

Wilson, Teddy

Wilson, Tom

Wilson, Tony

Winwood, Muff

Winwood, Steve

Wireless Age
magazine

Wolf, Howlin’

Wonder, Little Stevie

Wood, Len

Woodgate, Crispian

World’s Work
magazine

Wright, Chris

Wright, Nicholas

Wyatt, Trevor

Wynshaw, David

XL Recordings

XTC

Yank
magazine

Yardbirds

Yarrow, Peter

Yates, Herbert

Yetnikoff, Walter.
See also
Columbia artists; Columbia/CBS

cocaine addiction