Editing Red Bird Records (section)

{{Short description|Defunct American record label}}
{{About|the Leiber/Stoller record label|Ludo's label|Redbird Records}}
[[File:Redbirdrecords dixiecups.jpg|thumb|Red Bird label of the Dixie Cups' album]]
'''Red Bird Records''' was a [[record label]] founded by American [[popular music|pop music]] songwriters [[Jerry Leiber]], [[Mike Stoller]], and [[George Goldner]] in 1964.<ref>Betrock, Alan (1982). ''Girl Groups The Story of a Sound'' (1st ed.). New York: Delilah Books. pgs. 90-94. {{ISBN|0-933328-25-7}}.</ref> 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.<ref>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</ref>

The label's first release was "[[Chapel of Love]]" by [[the Dixie Cups]], which quickly reached number one on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]], a feat matched later that year by [[the Shangri-Las]]' "[[Leader of the Pack]]".<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=142
|title=Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller - inductees
|publisher=Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
|accessdate=2006-12-05 
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061202170412/http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=142 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2006-12-02}}</ref> Eleven of the first 30 singles released by Red Bird reached the Top Forty.