Oasis (record label)

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Oasis was a record label founded in 1975 by Giorgio Moroder in Munich and operated with Pete Bellotte . The distribution took place through Ariola , from 1979 through Teldec . In the USA , Casablanca Records initially sold Oasis products. In 1976 Moroder agreed to market all of its phonograms in the United States under the Casablanca Record & FilmWorks , Inc. label. Oasis ceased operations in 1983.

history

Moroder first published his own records, which he had recorded as an artist or producer (e.g. as "loner" and "castle"), on Oasis. In 1975 he engaged Donna Summer , who was living in Munich at the time and sang in the musical Hair , for Oasis and recorded the album Love To Love You Baby in the Munich Musicland studios with her.

In an effort to get a sales channel for the USA, Moroder sent his agent Trudy Meisel to Los Angeles. She looked up Neil Bogart of Casablanca Records and offered him a distribution deal, but Bogart decided to offer Moroder his own label. In return, Moroder was to cede his previous releases free of charge to Casablanca, which also included Donna Summers album Love to Love You Baby . Moroder agreed and opened Oasis as a sub-label of Casablanca Records.

Oasis releases weren't that successful in the US at first, until Bogart played the record at a party and someone hit the turntable and the needle slipped back to the beginning of the groove, causing the song to start over. The effect convinced Bogart that Love To Love You Baby would succeed as a long version. He called Moroder and convinced him to re-record the title and had it mixed up into a nearly seventeen minute long version. In the course of the disco wave, the 12 "-maxisingle with remixes of well-known songs was supposed to play a special role with the DJs, which Bogart recognized early on.

On August 27, 1975, the album Love to Love You Baby with the full-length title track was released as the A-side in the United States. At the same time, Oasis Moroder's album Schloss was released and also sent loners into the running again after the record had already been released on Casablanca. It took Donna Summers some time to take off the 17-minute single, but Florida nightclubs began playing the song, and the track began its triumphant advance through the United States and the charts from there.

Over the next year, Oasis was absorbed by Casablanca Records, so to speak - the parent label took more and more control of Oasis' businesses in the United States. In Europe, however, Oasis continued to exist as an independent label. Moroder continued to release his own products, but also those of other artists on the label, including Keith Forsey and Laura Branigan .

literature

  • And Party Every Day - The Inside Story of Casablanca Records ; Larry Harris, Curt Gooch, and Jeff Suhs; Backbeat Books, 2009; ISBN 978-0-87930-982-4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Moroder interview on soundonsound.com
  2. ^ And Party Every Day - The Inside Story of Casablanca Records
  3. ^ And Party Every Day - The Inside Story of Casablanca Records
  4. ^ And Party Every Day - The Inside Story of Casablanca Records
  5. ↑ Information about the label on rateyourmusic.com