Editing Reprise Records (section)

===Beginnings===
[[File:Reprise Label Tricolor Kinks.JPG|thumb|"Tricolor" label, used by Reprise until 1968. (Label to [[the Kinks]]' ''[[Something Else by The Kinks|Something Else]]''.)]]
Reprise Records was formed in 1960<ref name="Edwards"/> by Frank Sinatra in order to allow more artistic freedom for his own recordings, because of dissatisfaction with [[Capitol Records]], and after trying to buy [[Norman Granz]]'s [[Verve Records]].<ref name="auto">{{cite web|last1=Giles|first1=Jeff|title=To Play and Play Again: How Frank Sinatra's Thirst for Creative Freedom Led to Some of Classic Rock's Greatest Records |url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/reprise-records-history/|website=ultimateclassicrock.com|date=February 13, 2016 |publisher=Diffuser Network|access-date=2016-08-02}}</ref> The first album Sinatra released on Reprise was ''[[Ring-a-Ding-Ding!|Ring-a -Ding-Ding!]]'' Soon thereafter, he garnered the nickname "The Chairman of the Board".<ref>{{cite web |author=John Ward |date=December 11, 1990 |title=The Chairman of the Board hits another quarter century |url=http://tech.mit.edu/V110/N57/sinatr.57a.html |work=[[The Tech (newspaper)|The Tech]]}}</ref> As CEO of Reprise, Sinatra recruited several artists for the fledgling label, such as fellow [[Rat Pack]] members [[Dean Martin]] and [[Sammy Davis Jr.]] The original roster from 1961 to 1963 included [[Bing Crosby]], [[Jo Stafford]], [[Rosemary Clooney]], [[Duke Ellington]], [[Nancy Sinatra]], [[Juan Garcia Esquivel|Esquivel]] and [[Stand-up comedy|stand-up comedian]] [[Redd Foxx]]. The original Reprise LP label had four different logos, depending on the genre: a riverboat for Pop records (pictured), a cherub for Jazz records, an owl for Spoken Word/Comedy records, and a picture of Sinatra for his records.
[[File:Reprise Records logo square.svg|thumb|upright=0.5|Square Reprise Records logo used from 1968 to 2002]]
[[File:Reprise Label Orange Hendrix.JPG|thumb|"Two-tone orange" label used by Reprise during the [[Warner Bros.-Seven Arts]] merger from 1968 to 1969. (Label to [[Jimi Hendrix]]'s ''[[Smash Hits (The Jimi Hendrix Experience album)|Smash Hits]]''.) After the [[Kinney National Company]] took over Warner Bros. in 1969, the orange tone at the top of the label was changed to the same tone as on the rest of the label, the W7 box logo was removed and the circled :r logo (an artistic representation of a repeat symbol in music notation) became a boxed logo without the "Reprise" designation.]]
One of the label's founding principles under Sinatra's leadership was that each artist would have full creative freedom, and at some point complete ownership of their work, including publishing rights. This is the reason why recordings of early Reprise artists (Dean Martin, [[Jimi Hendrix]], [[the Kinks]], etc.) are (in most cases) currently distributed through other labels. In Martin's case, his Reprise recordings were out of print for nearly 20 years before a deal was struck with [[Capitol Records]]. Reprise continued to reissue the Sinatra catalog until 2013 when it was sold to Capitol.