Musicor Records

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Musicor Records was an American music label based in New York City . It was active in the light music sector and produced from 1960 to 1978.

history

Musicor was founded in New York in 1960 by pop composer Aaron Schroeder . So far, Schroeder was best known for his composition of the Elvis Presley hit I Got Stung . He held 50 percent of Musicor, the other half was owned by the record company United Artists , which also took over the distribution of the Musicor records in the first few years. In 1964, United Artists manager Art Talmadge and record producer Harold Daily became partners in Musicor. They founded their own sales company, Talmadge Production, which would market the Musicor records in the future. From 1972, the success at Musicor declined. Country star George Jones had already left the company in 1971, and in 1973 Gene Pitney , the most successful musician star, left the company. In 1975 the record production at Musicor was interrupted. In 1976 Springboard International from Los Angeles acquired the label. Only a few singles were produced, but a number of long-playing records were released by 1978. In the course of 1978 the Musicor label finally disappeared from the market.

Within 19 years, almost 200 performers released records under the Musicor label. Most of the singles were produced with Gene Pitney, he had 50 releases. He was followed by Georges Jones with 32 singles. Both are also at the top of the singles track track record. In the Hot 100 of the US music magazine Billbord , Gene Pitney got 23 placements. Among them was the track Only Love Can Break a Heart , which with second place became the greatest success of the music singles. George Jones generated the best sales figures for the Country & Western division . He appears on the CW charts 17 times with Musicor singles, including the 1967 number one track Walk Through This World with Me .

Single label 1962–1965

Musicor's single labels have changed several times over the years, mostly after the change of ownership. 1960 began with a gray background and a top two-thirds multi-colored border, which contained the white company logo in capital letters. From August 1961 the ground became light brown, the upper edge was shortened to a quarter, the lettering was now red. In July 1962 the label appeared all in black, Musicor was now written linearly, including the addition "Records" in smaller font. Until March 1965, the labels at the bottom bore the imprint "Distributed by United Artists Records", which was then changed to "Musicor Records, a Division of Talmadge Productions". At the end of 1966 / beginning of 1967 the reference to Talmadge disappeared briefly, only to return until 1971. From mid-1971 to October 1972, only Musicor was referred to at the bottom. Then the basic color changed to light brown and the company logo moved to the left. At the bottom next to the company name, the year of publication was given, and "Talmadge Productions" was added again. The last Musicor labels appeared in 1976 with the sales reference "A Product Of Springboard International". The basic color went from yellow above to green below. The company logo now appeared as an ellipse with a blue border. The catalog numbers began in 1960 with 1001 and continued until 1505 in 1974. Springboard used 1977 catalog numbers from 6301 onwards.

Most singles performers

Title in the Hot 100

entry title Performers Catalog no. space
01/1961 (I Wanna) Love My Life Away Gene Pitney 1002 39.
08/1961 Every Breath I Take Gene Pitney 1011 42.
10/1961 Town Without Pity Gene Pitney 1009 13.
10/1961 Your Ma Said You Cried Kenny Dino 1013 24.
04/1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Gene Pitney 1020 04th
09/1962 Only Love Can Break a Heart Gene Pitney 1022 02.
09/1962 If I Didn't Have a Dime Gene Pitney 1022 58.
12/1962 Half Heaven - Half Heartache Gene Pitney 1026 12.
03/1963 Mecca Gene Pitney 1028 12.
07/1963 True Love Never Runs Smooth Gene Pitney 1032 17th
10/1963 Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa Gene Pitney 1034 17th
01/1964 That Girl Belongs to Yesterday Gene Pitney 1036 49.
05/1964 Yesterday's Hero Gene Pitney 1038 64.
07/1964 It hurts to be in love Gene Pitney 1040 07th
10/1964 I'm gonna be strong Gene Pitney 1045 09.
02/1965 I Must Be Seeing Things Gene Pitney 1070 31.
05/1965 Last chance to turn around Gene Pitney 1093 13.
06/1965 Looking Through the Eyes of Love Gene Pitney 1103 28.
11/1965 Princess in rags Gene Pitney 1130 37.
02/1966 Backstage Gene Pitney 1171 25th
04/1966 I Love You 1000 Times The Platters 1166 31.
11/1966 Just one smile Gene Pitney 1219 64.
12/1966 I'll be home The Platters 1211 97.
02/1967 With this ring The Platters 1229 14th
07/1967 Washed Ashore The Platters 1251 56.
10/1967 Sweet, sweet lovin ' The Platters 1275 70.
05/1968 She's a heartbreaker Gene Pitney 1306 16.
11/1968 Billy You're My Friend Gene Pitney 1331 92.
01/1970 Jennifer Tomkins The Street People 1365 36.
01/1970 She Lets Her Hair Down Gene Pitney 1384 89.
07/1972 Popcorn Hot butter 1458 09.

LPs (selection)

Performers title Catalog no. year Top 200 /
C & W *
Gene Pitney Only Love Can Break a Heart 3003 1962 48.
Gene Pitney Sings World Wide Winners 3005 1963 41.
Gene Pitney It hurts to be in love 3019 1964 42.
George Jones & Gene Pitney For the First Time: Two Great Stars 3044 1964 3. *
George Jones Love bug 3088 1966 7. *
George Jones I'm a people 3099 1966 1.*
George Jones We Found Heaven Right Here On Earth 3106 1966 3. *
George Jones & Melba Montgomery Boy meets girl 3127 1967 37. *
George Jones I'll Share My World With You 3177 1970 5. *
George Jones The Best of George Jones 3191 1970 10. *
George Jones With love 3194 1970 9. *
George Jones Sings the Great Songs of Leon Payne 3204 1971 26th
Hot butter Popcorn 3242 1972 137.
Dionne Warwick Only Love Can Break a Heart 2501 1977 188.

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