Scepter Records was an American record company founded in 1959 by Florence Greenberg. Florence Greenberg founded Scepter Records from the $4,000 she received...
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Florence Greenberg (redirect from Tiara Records)
American record label owner, music executive, and record producer. She was the founder and owner of Tiara Records, Scepter Records, Hob Records, and Wand...
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Dionne Warwick (category Scepter Records artists)
Together. In 1971, Warwick left the family atmosphere of Scepter Records for Warner Bros. Records, for a $5 million contract, the most lucrative recording...
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The Shirelles (category Scepter Records artists)
with Decca, they went with Greenberg to her newly formed company, Scepter Records. Working with Luther Dixon, the group rose to fame with "Tonight's...
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Jocko Henderson (section Payola and Scepter Records)
subsidiary of Scepter Records, created greatest hits collections for Henderson called Jocko's Show Stoppers and Jocko's Rocket to the Stars. Scepter also gave...
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Records was an American independent record label, started by Florence Greenberg in 1961 as a subsidiary of Scepter Records. Artists on Wand Records included...
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Timothy (song) (category Scepter Records singles)
forced to promote their first single without the aid of their label, Scepter Records. Holmes' solution was to have the song generate attention by depicting...
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Marvin Schlachter (section Early life and Scepter)
American record company music executive and record label owner. Schlachter was a founder and owner of Scepter Records, Wand Records, Prelude Records, and...
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B. T. Express (category Scepter Records artists)
to record a second single and pitch a full album to the label. Scepter agreed to the LP and to Roadshow Records having its own label within Scepter Records...
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B. J. Thomas (category Scepter Records artists)
released on the album On My Way via Scepter Records. "Hooked on a Feeling" became Thomas' second million-selling record. A year later, Butch Cassidy and...
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The Hudson Brothers (category Scepter Records artists)
with Scepter. Their first Scepter 45 was issued in the spring of 1967, "When I'm Gone" b/w "You're Not My Girl" (SCE-12190) on Scepter Records, which...
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Warner Records Inc. (formerly known as Warner Bros. Records Inc. until 2019) is an American record label. A subsidiary of the Warner Music Group, it is...
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The Isley Brothers (category Scepter Records artists)
chart and the brothers left the label in 1961, and later signed with Scepter Records. In 1962, the Isley Brothers scored their first top 40 hit with the...
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Foolish Little Girl Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved November 20, 2019. "Scepter Album Discography". Bsnpubs.com. "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World by The...
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Tammi Terrell (category Scepter Records artists)
Records during the 1960s, notably for a series of duets with singer Marvin Gaye. Terrell began her career as a teenager, first recording for Scepter/Wand...
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(1955–2010), after Aretha Franklin. Warwick has sold over 100 million records (over 75 million singles and 25 million albums) worldwide. She has charted...
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selling records. A further development began to see the labels tailor the records specifically towards DJs as a result, with for example Scepter Records publicly...
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Soldier Boy (The Shirelles song) (category Scepter Records singles)
it as the No. 10 song for 1962. Record executive Florence Greenberg, founder of Scepter Records (the Shirelles' record label), wrote the song and was originally...
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Shirelles and other acts signed to Scepter Records. The show "tells the story of Florence Greenberg and Scepter Records, the label Greenberg started when...
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Suspicious Minds (category Scepter Records singles)
My Mind" (which Presley would later record), the song was first recorded and released by James on Scepter Records in 1968. Chips Moman had asked James...
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Make It Easy on Yourself (category Scepter Records singles)
hit." When Carter explained that Florence Greenberg, the owner of Scepter Records, who had recently signed Warwick, was not interested in "Make It Easy...
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I Say a Little Prayer (category Scepter Records singles)
October 1967, significant airplay led Scepter Records to release the track as a single, backed with newly recorded track "(Theme from) Valley of the Dolls"...
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Loretta Long (category Scepter Records artists)
in the song "Five People in My Family." She recorded Susan Sings Songs from Sesame Street (Scepter Records SPS-584) in 1970, including the "ABC Song" and...
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The Buoys (American band) (category Scepter Records artists)
selected the group to record the song. Recorded at Scepter Recording Studios in New York City and released by Scepter Records in December 1970, with...
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Long Beach (California). Tyrell was head of A&R and promotion at Scepter Records. He produced B. J. Thomas' hits "Hooked on a Feeling," "Raindrops Keep...
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Maxine Brown (soul singer) (category Scepter Records artists)
the New York-based uptown soul label, Wand Records, a Scepter Records subsidiary, in 1963. Brown recorded a string of sizable hits for Wand over the next...
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Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (category Scepter Records singles)
when the movie came out it hit hugely and sold about 200,000 to 300,000 records a day [and continued selling] for about three years. — B.J. Thomas, Interview...
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a Chinese curved decorative object that serves as either a ceremonial scepter in Chinese Buddhism or a talisman symbolizing power and good fortune in...
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Beverly Bremers (category Scepter Records artists)
Bremers to record with the resultant master - deliberately styled to evoke the 1960s girl-group sound - being successfully shopped to Scepter Records and released...
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Mama Said (The Shirelles song) (category Scepter Records singles)
Singles Chart. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004. Record Research. p. 523. "RPM Top 100 Singles - April 11, 1970" (PDF). "100 Greatest...
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