Editing Reprise Records (section)

===Sale to Warner Bros.===
In August 1963, as part of a film deal, [[Warner Bros.]] purchased Reprise (which had been losing money) from Frank Sinatra, who nonetheless retained a 1/3 interest in the label.<ref name="auto"/> Many of the older artists on the label were dropped by [[Warner Bros. Records]]. Reprise president [[Mo Ostin]] was retained as the head of the label and he went on to play a very significant role in the history of the Warner group of labels over the next four decades. Warner-Reprise executives began targeting younger acts, beginning by securing the American distribution rights to the [[Pye Records]] recordings by [[the Kinks]] in 1964. Reprise soon added teen-oriented pop acts like [[Dino, Desi & Billy]] to the roster. As well, Sinatra's own daughter [[Nancy Sinatra|Nancy]] (who began recording for the label in 1961) was retained by Ostin, becoming a major pop star from late 1965. The label moved almost exclusively to rock-oriented music in the late 1960s, although Frank Sinatra continued to record for the label until the 1980s.

Through direct signings or distribution deals, by the 1970s the Reprise roster grew to include [[Lee Hazlewood]], [[Paul & Paula|Jill Jackson]], [[Jimi Hendrix]], the early [[Joni Mitchell]] recordings, [[Neil Young]], [[the Electric Prunes]], [[Donna Loren]], [[Arlo Guthrie]], [[Norman Greenbaum]], [[Tom Lehrer]], [[Kenny Rogers and The First Edition]], [[Tiny Tim (musician)|Tiny Tim]], [[Ry Cooder]], [[Captain Beefheart]], [[John Sebastian]], [[Family (band)|Family]], the early 1970s recordings by [[Frank Zappa]] and [[the Mothers]], [[Gram Parsons]], [[Emmylou Harris]], [[Nico]]'s ''[[Desertshore]]'', [[the Fugs]], [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]], [[Pentangle (band)|Pentangle]], [[T. Rex (band)|T. Rex]], [[the Meters]], [[John Cale]], [[Gordon Lightfoot]], [[Michael Franks (musician)|Michael Franks]], [[Richard Pryor]], [[Al Jarreau]], [[Fleetwood Mac]], [[Fanny (band)|Fanny]], and [[the Beach Boys]].