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61-700: Described as a group of companies, they operated on several fronts. In 1972, Magic Management was also a division of the Toronto-based company, Truck Music Ltd. Truck Music Limited also handled the PR work for some acts on their level. One of them was the jazz rock folk duo Aarons & Ackley who were signed to the Capitol label. In August, 1973, Magic Management was described as the PR arm of Consolidated Entertainment whose directors were Craig Nicholson, Clark Spencer, Jim Skarrate and Peter Francey. There weren't many companies around at

122-651: A Los Angeles choral group and the Janssen Symphony Orchestra (1940–1952), conducted by Werner Janssen ; Symphony No. 3 by Russian composer Reinhold Moritzovich Glière ; and César Franck 's Symphony in D minor , with Willem Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw Orchestra . In 1949, Capitol opened a branch office in Canada and purchased KHJ Studios on Melrose Avenue adjacent to Paramount in Hollywood. By

183-473: A UK company for a European tour for Christopher Kearney. At that time Kearney had two albums under his belt, both produced by Sundog Productions . Kearney was also set to tour Western Canada that month. In February 1973, they pulled one of their groups, Truck off the road for a month. The group who already had a single "Get it Together Out" had to use the down time to rehearse new material, polish their stage presentation and get ready for heavy schedule related to

244-539: A division of Universal Music France, and bears the 1970s Capitol "C" logo. Shawne Jackson Shawne Jackson is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actress. She had a Canadian Top 10 hit in 1974 with "Just As Bad As You". During her career she has provided the voice for Teacher Harriet in Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood , contributed backing vocals on "I'm A W.O.M.A.N." for Lydia Taylor , backing vocals on For Those Who Think Young by Rough Trade , backing vocals on

305-673: A graphic design firm specializing in corporate communications and package design, its roots went back to a Toronto company, Fifty Fingers that was founded in 1975. In 2004, Francey and co. sold the business to Cundari SFP. They left in November 2009 and formed Trajectory, a new independent branding agency. Jeannette Hanna, one of the artist team of Slic Management co-wrote the book, Ikonica: A Field Guide to Canada's Brandscape , published by Douglas & McIntyre in 2008. Capitol Records Capitol Records, LLC (known legally as Capitol Records, Inc. until 2007), and simply known as Capitol ,

366-529: A group featuring Polydor artist, Lisa Hart. One group that auditioned for them was West that featured Paul Sanderson. Magic Management took them on board with Truck. Through the company they ended up auditioning for Shawne Jackson , backing her for three months, just before she had her Domenic Troiano -penned hit "Just as Bad as You" in 1974. By May, 1974, Axe Records artist Jay Telfer had signed on to Magic Management for an exclusive management agreement. Kangi Records artist Jeff Addams had also signed up around

427-617: A noted jazz catalog that included the Capitol Jazz Men and issued the Miles Davis 's album Birth of the Cool . Capitol released a few classical albums in the 1940s, some of which contained handsome heavily embossed, leather-like covers. These recordings appeared on the 78 rpm format and were subsequently reissued on the new LP format in 1949. Among the recordings: Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos ' Choros No. 10 , with contributions from

488-467: A one-inch air gap to provide complete sound isolation. The facility also features subterranean echo chambers that allow engineers to add reverberation during the recording process. Eight trapezoidal chambers are located 30 feet (9.1 m) underground, with 10-inch concrete walls and 12-inch-thick (300 mm) concrete ceilings. Speakers on one side and microphones on the other permit an echo effect of up to five seconds. Studios A and B can be combined for

549-527: A result of the positive reaction to the work of design artist John Martin. It worked as a subsidiary of Magic Management. Two creative people that came on board to work in Slic were John Hanna and Brian Cranley. In May 1973, it was reported that they were expanding and moving to produce press kits for all Magic Management acts as well as moving into producing promotional films with the first a sixty-minute film of Magic Management acts. In 1973, they designed LP covers for

610-511: A second-floor room south of Sunset Boulevard . On that same day, Wallichs presented the company's first free record to Los Angeles disc jockey Peter Potter. On June 5, Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra recorded four songs at the studio. On June 12, the orchestra recorded five more songs in the studio, including "Trav'lin' Light" with Billie Holiday . On June 11, Tex Ritter recorded " (I Got Spurs That) Jingle Jangle Jingle " and "Goodbye My Little Cherokee" for his first Capitol recording session, and

671-531: A solid reaction to his work, a company Slic Brothers was created and operated as a subsidiary of Magic Management. In September, 1972, a full page Magic Management advertisement appeared in Billboard . It listed some of their acts, Christopher Kearney , Truck and The Good Bros. Included was M. Frank Associates handling publicity and promotion and the field representative, Tim Lawrence. In November, two Magic Management acts had been roped into an exercise to pull in

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732-417: A young architect from Becket's office, serving as project designer the thirteen-story, earthquake-resistant Capitol Records Tower was the world's first circular office building and it is the base for several recording studios . Although not intended as a tribute to record players, its wide curved awnings and tall narrow tower mimic the appearance of a stack of gramophone records atop a phonograph. The building

793-476: Is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint. It was founded as the first West Coast-based record label of note in the United States in 1942 by Johnny Mercer , Buddy DeSylva , and Glenn E. Wallichs . Capitol was acquired by British music conglomerate EMI as its North American subsidiary in 1955. EMI was acquired by Universal Music Group in 2012, and

854-648: Is called Vertigo/Capitol . Capitol Music Group Sweden was relaunched in 2015 after UMG rebranded the Lionheart Music Group label. It originally existed as a division of EMI Music Sweden during the 1990s and mid-2000s. EMI's Swedish offices were included in the Parlophone Label Group sale and were acquired by Warner Music Group , which owns the Capitol Sweden's back catalog. In France, Capitol Label Services (formerly Capitol Music France) exists as

915-564: The Alice Cooper Goes to Hell album by Alice Cooper , backing vocals on Fret Fever by Domenic Troiano. She was also nominee for the 1976 Juno Award for Breakthrough Artist of the Year . She is the great-granddaughter of Albert Jackson, Canada's first Black letter carrier. During the late 1960s, Shawne and her brother Jay Jackson were the lead singers in The Majestics. In 1974, she

976-681: The Grammy Awards for music by Beck and Sam Smith . In 2018, Capitol's electronic division Astralwerks relaunched with a new team and moved its entire operations to Capitol's tower in Los Angeles. In 2019, Jeff Vaughn was named President of Capitol Records, assuming his position as of January 1, 2020. In 2021, Michelle Jubelirer was named the Chair & CEO of Capitol. In 2024, Capitol Records became part of UMG's Interscope Capitol Labels Group. Designed by Welton Becket with Louis Naidorf,

1037-577: The Greaseball Boogie Band , Moe Koffman and the Stampeders , completing the task by December. Their parent company, Truck Music Limited had already produced a 20-minute documentary for the promotion of their acts to potential clients and booking agencies earlier that year. By 1975, the staff included Peter Francey, artists, John Martin, John Hanna, Jeanette Hanna and David Wyman, photographer Gerrard Gentil and project co-ordinator Clark Spencer. For

1098-733: The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra , Leopold Stokowski with various orchestras (including the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra ) and Sir Thomas Beecham and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , as well as light classical albums by Carmen Dragon and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and albums of film music conducted by Hollywood composers such as Alfred Newman . In the realm of "Sweet Jazz" big-band music, Capitol also joined forces with

1159-471: The "Time To Cry" single by Don Goodwin in the June 15 issue. Also in June, with her single doing well in Canada, she was touring with the group Sweet Blindness. The August 9, 1975, issue of Billboard mentioned that Jackson was working on a follow-up to "Just As Bad As You". It also mentioned the side activities of Dominic Troiano who was then part of the new Guess Who line up. He had recently finished producing

1220-543: The 1950s, Capitol had become a huge label that concentrated primarily on popular music. Capitol began recording rock and roll acts such as The Jodimars and Gene Vincent . There were comedy records by Stan Freberg , Johnny Standley , and Mickey Katz . On August 2, 1952, Billboard magazine contained a chronicle of the label's first ten years in business. In 1955, the British record company EMI (which evolved into Universal Music Group ) purchased Capitol Records, ending

1281-725: The 55-year mutual distribution agreement between EMI and RCA Victor in the Western Hemisphere in 1957. EMI acquired 96% of Capitol's stock for $ 8.5 million. EMI built a studio at Hollywood and Vine to match its state-of-the-art Abbey Road Studios in London. In the 1950s, Decca Records broke its distribution contract with Panart , the first independent Cuban record company. This provided an opening for Capitol, which then contracted with Panart to have Capitol and Odeon records distributed in Cuba. In turn, Capitol distributed Panart records in

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1342-561: The Beatles long before the American company. By 1967, they were distributing non-EMI labels such as 20th Century Fox , Buena Vista Records , Disneyland , and Pickwick . The company was renamed Capitol Records-EMI of Canada in 1974, before the EMI Music Canada name was adopted in 1993. EMI Music Canada was absorbed into Universal Music Canada in 2012. In 2016, Universal Music Canada donated

1403-543: The Beatles! , the first album by the band to be released by Capitol in the United States. It was based on the British album With the Beatles , which contained 14 tracks and a running time of around 35 minutes. Capitol removed five tracks ("Money", " You've Really Got a Hold on Me ", "Devil in Her Heart", "Please Mister Postman", and "Roll Over Beethoven") and added both sides of the band's first American hit single (" I Want to Hold Your Hand " c/w " I Saw Her Standing There ") and

1464-543: The British single's B-side, "This Boy". "I Saw Her Standing There" was on the Beatles' first British album, Please Please Me . This resulted in Capitol releasing Meet the Beatles as a 12-track album with a duration of around 30 minutes and made it comparable with other American pop albums. It also provided Capitol with unreleased tracks for use in later US Beatles albums such as The Beatles' Second Album. Capitol also issued " duophonic " stereo releases of some recordings where

1525-503: The Capitol Records Building. Capitol and artist Richard Wyatt Jr. restored his Hollywood Jazz Mural on the south wall of the Capitol Records Building. Capitol's recording studios were designed to minimize noise and vibration, then newly important goals in the high-fidelity sound era. An inner wall floating on layers of rubber and cork was erected inside the building's 10-inch-thick (250 mm) concrete exterior walls, leaving

1586-648: The Clown for the company's children's record library, with Pinto Colvig (the voice of Goofy in Walt Disney cartoons) as Bozo. Mel Blanc reprised his own cartoon roles including Bugs Bunny and other Looney Tunes characters, as well as Woody Woodpecker , while several Disney records were narrated by radio announcer Don Wilson . Examples of notable Capitol albums for children during that era are Sparky's Magic Piano and Rusty in Orchestraville . Capitol also developed

1647-625: The EMI Music Canada archives to the University of Calgary . Capitol Latin focuses on Latin music artists in Latin America and the United States. It was founded in 1989 as EMI Latin and was renamed to Capitol Latin in 2009. Capitol Latin was merged with Universal Music Latin Entertainment in 2013. Capitol Records of Mexico was founded in 1965 as the Mexican division of Capitol. EMI later renamed

1708-522: The Pied Pipers, all with Weston's orchestra. Capitol was the first major west coast label to compete with major labels on the east coast such as RCA Victor , Columbia , and Decca . In addition to its Los Angeles recording studios, Capitol owned a second studio in New York City and occasionally sent mobile recording equipment to other cities. In 1946, writer-producer Alan W. Livingston created Bozo

1769-522: The Spencer Francey Group who in 1986 were selected by Time Magazine for one of the Ten Best Designs on their package design for Ability Software. In the early 2000s, Peter Francey was an executive in the Toronto-based consultancy, Spencer Francey Peters which was founded in 1991 resulting from the merger of Michael Peters Group and Canadian design consultancy Spencer Francey. Also described as

1830-449: The U.S. from 1964 to 1967. Capitol Records artist roster also includes Katy Perry , Ice Spice , Sam Smith , Troye Sivan , Kodak Black , Doechii , 50 Cent , Yeat , That Mexican OT , Young Miko , Maggie Rogers , Lewis Capaldi , Niall Horan , Kings of Leon , Paul McCartney , Bee Gees , and Meovv . Songwriter Johnny Mercer founded Capitol Records in 1942 with financial help from songwriter and film producer Buddy DeSylva and

1891-505: The UK with the rights to the Beatles' catalog. This marks the first time that Capitol in the UK operated as an autonomous label. Capitol Records of Canada was established in 1949 by businessman W. Lockwood Miller. Capitol broke with Miller's company and formed Capitol Record Distributors of Canada Limited in 1954. EMI acquired this company when it acquired Capitol. The company was renamed Capitol Records of Canada Ltd. in 1958 after Miller's rights to

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1952-430: The United States, growing the export percentage of Panart records from 20 percent to 50 percent. This was a coup for Capitol, as RCA Victor up to this point had huge predominance in the United States distribution of Cuban music recordings. In 1957, EMI's classical label Angel was merged into Capitol. Some classical recordings were issued in high fidelity and stereophonic sound. These included William Steinberg and

2013-533: The application was amended to change the label's name to Capitol Records. On April 6, 1942, Mercer supervised Capitol's first recording session where Martha Tilton recorded the song "Moon Dreams". On May 5, Bobby Sherwood and his orchestra recorded two tracks in the studio. On May 21, Freddie Slack and his orchestra recorded three tracks in the studio: one with the orchestra, one with Ella Mae Morse called " Cow-Cow Boogie " and "Air-Minded Executive" supervised by Mercer. On June 4, Capitol opened its first office in

2074-580: The bandleader Guy Lombardo starting in the mid 1950s to issue a series of approximately thirty recordings until the late 1960s. The Capitol of the World series introduced in 1956 and active into the 1970s encompassed German Beer Drinking Songs , Honeymoon in Rome , Australian Aboriginals , and Kasongo! Modern Music of the Belgian Congo . Many were produced by Dave Dexter Jr. This series contained over 400 albums. It

2135-501: The business acumen of Glenn Wallichs, owner of Wallichs Music City . Mercer raised the idea of starting a record company while golfing with Harold Arlen and Bobby Sherwood and with Wallichs at Wallichs's record store. On February 2, 1942, Mercer and Wallichs met DeSylva at a restaurant in Hollywood to talk about investment by Paramount Pictures . On March 27, 1942, the three men incorporated as Liberty Records (not affiliated with Capitol's future sister label Liberty Records ). In May,

2196-467: The company was based in London Ontario. They started out representing non-recording musical acts. On April 19, 1972, an event for the group Truck was organized by promoter Michele Frank. A celebration was held at Thunder Sound Studios in honor of Sundog Production's acquisition of the group. In addition to organizing the event, Frank's efforts had been put into sorting the public relations and getting

2257-416: The doctrines' application "was limited to material items that the copyright owner put into the stream of commerce." In 2014, PGH Live Music joined the team and Katy Perry founded the record label Metamorphosis Music, starting a label venture with Capitol. The name of the label was later changed to Unsub Records in 2016. Also that year, Capitol rose to number two market share and won four categories at

2318-461: The key music industry people to come. Another attendee invited to witness the event was Skip Prokop from the group Lighthouse . Music magazine RPM Weekly reported on the event. It also published a photo in its May 6 article. Members, Brian Wray , Jimmy Roberts, Larry Ernewein, Joey Miquelon , Mike Curtis , Graham Lear appeared in the photograph with the group's managers Clark Spencer, Peter Francey and Dennis Murphy of Sun dog Productions. It

2379-534: The label EMI Capitol of Mexico until it later became simply EMI's local company, EMI Music Mexico . Since 2012, after Universal Music Group purchased EMI, the Mexican EMI brand, music catalog and office are owned by Universal Music México . Capitol Music Germany was founded by EMI Music Germany and inherited most of EMI's German artists catalog. In 2013, Capitol Germany was acquired by Universal and merged with UMG's Vertigo Berlin domestic division. The new label

2440-435: The method of publishing royalties were calculated in the two countries. Also, in the American market it was expected that albums would include the current hit single, whereas British albums typically did not duplicate songs released as singles. Possibly the best-known treatment of an international artist's recordings was the label's release pattern for various albums by the Beatles . This began with Capitol's release of Meet

2501-603: The name expired. In 1959, Capitol of Canada picked up distribution rights for EMI's labels Angel, Pathé , Odeon , and Parlophone . In 1957, Paul White joined Capitol of Canada and in 1960 established an A&R department independent of the American company to promote talent for the Canadian market. The division found native talent such as Anne Murray and EMI musicians from other countries. Beginning in 1962, Capitol of Canada issued albums by British musicians such as Cliff Richard , Helen Shapiro and Frank Ifield . They accepted

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2562-418: The original master was monophonic. Capitol engineers split the single master mono track into two, boosted the bass on the right channel, boosted treble on the left channel and added a split-second delay between channels to produce a "stereo" release. This duophonic process meant that the Beatles' American fans occasionally heard a slightly different song from that heard by the rest of the world if they listened to

2623-468: The recording of orchestral music and symphonic film soundtracks. The first album recorded in the tower was Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color . Capitol modified albums that were originally released in other countries on other labels. Albums released in the United States contained fewer tracks, usually no more than 11 or 12, compared to albums released in the United Kingdom due to differences in

2684-659: The release of their Capital album that was due for release that month. It was mentioned in the March 31, 1973 issue of Billboard that Magic Management had been acquired by Consolidated Entertainment Corporation Inc. By August, 1973, Karen Quee had recently been appointed to the position of director of public relations. At the time she was working closely with Capitol Records , coordinating publicity for acts Truck and Christopher Kearney. In addition to Truck and Christopher Kearney, their Roster included The Good Brothers, Terry Dee, The Toronto-based English group, Hit & Run and Touchstone,

2745-417: The same time. Some time prior to June 7, they lost two of their acts from their roster, Christopher Kearney and Hero. By October 1974, Magic Management and Slic Brothers had re-located to 49 Wellington Street, E. Toronto. Slic Brothers was an independent promotion-design company. It was originally formed by Peter Francey and Clark Spencer's Toronto-based company, Truck Music Limited. The company came about as

2806-492: The songs comprised Capitol's 110th produced record. The earliest recording artists included co-owner Mercer, Johnnie Johnston , Morse, Jo Stafford , the Pied Pipers , Tex Ritter , Tilton, Paul Weston , Whiteman, and Margaret Whiting . Capitol's first gold single was Morse's "Cow Cow Boogie" in 1942. Capitol's first album was Capitol Presents Songs by Johnny Mercer , a three disc set with recordings by Mercer, Stafford and

2867-657: The stereo version. This trend in the Beatles' American discography continued until 1967 when a new recording contract with EMI was signed. Unhappy with the way Capitol in the US and other companies around the world were issuing their work in almost unrecognizable forms, beginning in 1967 the Beatles gained full approval of album titles and cover art, track listing and running order in North America. Starting with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , Beatles' albums were released unmodified. The issue of 45 RPM singles featuring album tracks

2928-463: The team's efforts they had three Juno nominations. This included nomination for best LP graphics, and a "service publication acknowledging Toronto as the entertainment capital of Canada, Night Out magazine. By December that year, Slic had moved out from their old studio to a larger area of 3,500 square feet at their new premises, 75 Sherbourne Street in Toronto's down town. Peter Francey was partner in

2989-421: The time who could incorporate the creative services and management requirements for musical artists. Magic Management was able to take care of the requirements on various levels. A subsidiary of Magic Management was Slic Brothers. They designed the covers for artists Peter Foldy , Greaseball Boogie Band , Moe Koffman , The Stampeders and Jay Telfer . Formed by Peter Francey and Clark Spencer in 1970 / 1971,

3050-526: The tower after it was completed. In September 2006, EMI announced that it had sold the tower and adjacent properties for $ 50 million to New York-based developer Argent Ventures . In mid-2008, a controversy erupted over a plan to build a condominium complex next door, igniting fears that the building's acoustic properties, specifically its underground echo chambers, would be compromised. It was announced in November 2012 that Steve Barnett would become chairman and CEO of Capitol Music Group and would be based at

3111-449: The youth vote. Band Truck and The Good Brothers were to be utilized by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's First-Time Voter Committee to be part of a youth-oriented tour. Starting in Ottawa, the four day venture was to take them via Yukon, Winnipeg, Thompson, Calgary, Whitehorse, Vancouver and Regina. In January 1973, it was announced that Magic Management were going forward in negotiating with

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3172-497: Was also in this period that Capitol issued Christmas music recordings from various countries outside the United States. In the 1960s Capitol established subsidiary labels including Tower Records . Capitol was the US distributor of the Beatles ' Apple Records . In October 1979, EMI merged with Thorn Electrical Industries to form Thorn EMI and, due to business models increasingly diverging, on August 16, 1996, Thorn EMI's shareholders voted to demerge. The resulting media company

3233-505: Was also noted by RPM Weekly , the expectation of Murphy and Sun Dog Productions would soon be releasing an album of the group. Also in 1972, they were regularly enlisting the services of artist John Martin who was the cousin of Peter Francey. Martin an Ontario Art College graduate was living in Vancouver. He was called to Toronto where he set about on his task of designing promo material for Truck, Christopher Kearney and The Good Brothers. With

3294-447: Was also stopped. Instead, non-album tracks were issued as singles between album releases. Beginning in 1948, Capitol Records were released in the UK on the Capitol label by Decca. After its 1955 acquisition of Capitol, EMI took over distribution in 1956. EMI's Parlophone unit handled Capitol label marketing in the UK in later years. In 2012, EMI was sold to Universal Music Group. Universal Music started Capitol as an autonomous label in

3355-556: Was backed by a band called West which included Paul Sanderson who would later become a leading entertainment lawyer in Canada. The group auditioned for the management company, Magic Management who took them along with the group Truck . It was via Magic Management that they ended up auditioning for Jackson who at that time was Domenic Troiano's girlfriend. West backed her for three months and then she had her hit "Just As Bad As You". By that time she had formed her own backing band. West broke up that year. In May, 1974, "Just As Bad As You"

3416-458: Was commissioned by EMI after its acquisition of Capitol Records in 1955 and was completed in April 1956. The building is north of the intersection of Hollywood and Vine and is the center of the company's consolidated West Coast operations. It was nicknamed "The House That Nat Built" after the financial success of Capitol singer Nat King Cole. The rectangular ground floor is a separate structure joined to

3477-399: Was guilty of copyright infringement due to a business model that facilitated the creation of additional copies of Capitol's digital music files, whereby users could upload the files for downloading or streaming to the new purchaser of the file. ReDigi argued that the resale of MP3/digital music files is permitted under certain doctrines ("fair use" and "first sale") but the court maintained that

3538-473: Was hired as chairman and CEO of the division. Capitol filed a lawsuit against Vimeo , an online video-sharing website, for audio copyright infringement. Capitol filed the claim after users were visibly lip-synching to some of their tracks. Following legal action by Capitol against the ReDigi.com online company in April 2013, the latter was found to have violated copyright law. Capitol Records claimed that ReDigi

3599-536: Was merged with the company a year later, making Capitol and the Capitol Music Group both distributed by UMG. The label's circular headquarters building is a recognized landmark of Hollywood , California . Capitol is known as the record label of the Beach Boys and The Kingston Trio , and as the U.S. label of the Beatles (their native label being Parlophone ), especially during the years of Beatlemania in

3660-515: Was released. The A side was composed by Domenic Troiano. The B side, "He May Be Your Man" she co-wrote with Troiano. Both sides were produced by Troiano and Keith Olsen. On May 28 a successful reception was held for her at The Generator in Toronto with the help from Quality Records. The single got to #10 in Canada in June. It also got to #98 on the US R&;B chart. The Cash Box international bestsellers, Canada chart recorded it at #6 just ahead of

3721-697: Was then known as the EMI Group. In June 1997, Capitol, together with Virgin Records , absorbed EMI USA , which folded. In 2012, the recorded music operations of EMI were sold to the Universal Music Group and the world headquarters were re-established in the Capitol Tower in Hollywood as part of the subsequent reorganization of the Capitol Music Group . Steve Barnett, previously an employee of Columbia,

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