Editing Red Bird Records (section)

==History==
After closing [[Spark Records]] (in 1955) and working for [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]] (1955–1961) then [[United Artists Records|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]].<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.bsnpubs.com/roulette/goldner.html
|title=The George Goldner Story
|publisher=
|accessdate=2006-12-05 
}}</ref>  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<ref name="stone">{{cite book
| first= Anthony Decurtis (Eds.)
| last= Holly George-Warren &
| author-link= 
| year= 1976
| title= The RollingStone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll
| edition= 3rd
| publisher= Random House
| location=New York
| pages= 148–152
| isbn= 0-679-73728-6 }}</ref> whose gambling debts caused Red Bird to be taken over by the [[American Mafia|Mafia]].  Leiber and Stoller sold Red Bird to Goldner for one dollar.  Goldner then sold the Red Bird catalogue to raise money.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/lastsultanlifeti00gree|url-access=registration|title=The Last Sultan: The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun|last=Greenfield|first=Robert|date=2012-11-06|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9781416558408|language=en}}</ref>

A subsidiary label, [[Blue Cat Records]], had a hit with "[[The Boy from New York City]]" by [[The Ad Libs]].<ref>{{cite web
|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p36941|pure_url=yes}}
|title=Biography - The Ad libs
|publisher=allmusic.com
|accessdate=2006-12-05 
}}</ref>