To those just coming in, the discussion started with why some Polygram box sets of the mid-1990s were on A&M when the artists themselves never recorded for or were even associated with A&M.
I was away all weekend (world's largest trivia contest) so I didn't get a chance to pick up where I left off. So here goes.
>>What is the actual "roots" of Atco? All these years, I thought it was part of the Atlantic family, and that Atco was actually for ATlantic/COtillion. <<
Atco was founded in 1955 or so, and it was a subsidiary of Atlantic. It stands for ATlantic COrporation. The first big hit on the label was "Searchin'" by the Coasters in 1957. I've heard several stories as to why a separate label was set up, including what Mac wrote. But it wouldn't surprise me if another motivating factor was the same reason that Columbia created Epic: Mentally, it appears to be two different labels, though all are coming from the same place. And there was a general belief that radio stations wouldn't play more than X (unknown high number) records from the same label at the same time. Cotillion was set up much later, around 1968.
>>BMG bought the rights to Buddah- bubble gum masters,logo and all- from a shady company called Essex Music-promptly changed the spelling to Buddha,created a cartoony politically incorrect image of the god and have had very limited success with their reissue catalog. As a result of that failure,the guy who ran all of that has been promoted and the reissue program has the loftier title of BMG Heritage. <<
The short-lived Buddha imprint had some really good reissues; I'd almost put it up there with Sony Legacy as a major-label reissue label. My favorite one was the Lovin' Spoonful set that has by far the best sound of any Lovin' Spoonful CD; the songs were taken from the master tapes for the first time.
For the start of the thread, from where it changed its name, follow this link:
http://www.amcorner.com/forums/am/archive.cgi?read=35563
I was away all weekend (world's largest trivia contest) so I didn't get a chance to pick up where I left off. So here goes.
>>What is the actual "roots" of Atco? All these years, I thought it was part of the Atlantic family, and that Atco was actually for ATlantic/COtillion. <<
Atco was founded in 1955 or so, and it was a subsidiary of Atlantic. It stands for ATlantic COrporation. The first big hit on the label was "Searchin'" by the Coasters in 1957. I've heard several stories as to why a separate label was set up, including what Mac wrote. But it wouldn't surprise me if another motivating factor was the same reason that Columbia created Epic: Mentally, it appears to be two different labels, though all are coming from the same place. And there was a general belief that radio stations wouldn't play more than X (unknown high number) records from the same label at the same time. Cotillion was set up much later, around 1968.
>>BMG bought the rights to Buddah- bubble gum masters,logo and all- from a shady company called Essex Music-promptly changed the spelling to Buddha,created a cartoony politically incorrect image of the god and have had very limited success with their reissue catalog. As a result of that failure,the guy who ran all of that has been promoted and the reissue program has the loftier title of BMG Heritage. <<
The short-lived Buddha imprint had some really good reissues; I'd almost put it up there with Sony Legacy as a major-label reissue label. My favorite one was the Lovin' Spoonful set that has by far the best sound of any Lovin' Spoonful CD; the songs were taken from the master tapes for the first time.
For the start of the thread, from where it changed its name, follow this link:
http://www.amcorner.com/forums/am/archive.cgi?read=35563