Red Bird Records
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Red Bird Records was a record label started by legendary American pop music songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in 1964 to highlight the girl-group sound. The label's first release was "Chapel of Love" by the The Dixie Cups which quickly reached Number One. Eleven of the first 30 singles released by Red Bird reached the Top Forty. The Shangri-Las' "Leader of the Pack" was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 that same year.[1]
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After closing Spark Records and starting Red Bird, Lieber and Stoller brought in George Goldner, a veteran record promoter and former owner of Gee Records, Gone Records and Rama Records.[2] 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 the owners preferred to write and produce rather than the business end of running a label.[3]
A subsidiary label, Blue Cat Records released a hit record named "The Boy from New York City", recorded by The Ad Libs.[4]
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- ^ Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller - inductees. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Retrieved on December 5, 2006.
- ^ The George Goldner Story. Retrieved on December 5, 2006.
- ^ Holly George-Warren &, Anthony Decurtis (Eds.) (1976). The RollingStone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll, 3rd Edition, New York: Random House, p. 148-152. ISBN 0-679-73728-6.
- ^ Biography - The Ad libs. allmusic.com. Retrieved on December 5, 2006.
