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Red Bird Records

December 02, 2023

This article is about the Leiber/Stoller record label. For Ludo's label, see Redbird Records.

Red Bird Records was a record label founded by American pop music songwriters Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, and George Goldner in 1964.[1] Though often thought of as a "girl-group" label, female-led acts made up only 40% of the artist roster on Red Bird and its associated labels (including Blue Cat Records, Tiger and Daisy). However, female-led acts also accounted for more than 90% of the label's charting records.[2]

Red Bird label of the Dixie Cups' album

The label's first release was "Chapel of Love" by the Dixie Cups, which quickly reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, a feat matched later that year by the Shangri-Las' "Leader of the Pack".[3] Eleven of the first 30 singles released by Red Bird reached the Top Forty.

History edit

After closing Spark Records (in 1955) and working for Atlantic (1955–1961) then United Artists (1961–1963) and starting Red Bird, Leiber and Stoller brought in George Goldner, a veteran record promoter and former owner of Gee Records, Gone Records and Rama Records.[4] They used the skillful Brill Building husband-and-wife songwriting team of Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, who had been writing most of Phil Spector's first hits. The label was sold in 1966 as Leiber and Stoller preferred to write and produce rather than manage the business of running a label, and after they had a falling-out with Goldner[5] whose gambling debts caused Red Bird to be taken over by the Mafia. Leiber and Stoller sold Red Bird to Goldner for one dollar. Goldner then sold the Red Bird catalogue to raise money.[6]

A subsidiary label, Blue Cat Records, had a hit with "The Boy from New York City" by The Ad Libs.[7]

Red Bird Records artists edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Betrock, Alan (1982). Girl Groups The Story of a Sound (1st ed.). New York: Delilah Books. pgs. 90-94. ISBN 0-933328-25-7.
  2. ^ Charles, Don: liner notes to The Girl Group Sound: 25 All-Time Greatest Hits from Red Bird Records, Varese Saradande, 2001. Cat. # 302 066 246-2
  3. ^ . Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2006-12-02. Retrieved 2006-12-05.
  4. ^ "The George Goldner Story". Retrieved 2006-12-05.
  5. ^ Holly George-Warren &, Anthony Decurtis (Eds.) (1976). The RollingStone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll (3rd ed.). New York: Random House. pp. 148–152. ISBN 0-679-73728-6.
  6. ^ Greenfield, Robert (2012-11-06). The Last Sultan: The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781416558408.
  7. ^ "Biography - The Ad libs". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2006-12-05.

External links edit

  • Red Bird discography
  • Red Bird Entertainment

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