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{{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. ==History== After closing [[Spark Records]] (in 1955) and working for [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]] (1955β1961) then [[United Artists Records|United Artists]] (1961β1963) 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= 148β152 | 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> ==Red Bird Records artists== *[[The Butterflys (band)|The Butterflys]] *[[The Dixie Cups]] *[[Ral Donner]] *[[The Jelly Beans]] *[[Andy Kim (singer)|Andy Kim]] *[[The Main Ingredient (band)|The Poets]] *[[Orpheus (band)|Orpheus]] *[[Tawney Reed]] *[[Alvin Robinson (musician)|Alvin Robinson]] *[[Steve Rossi]] *[[The Shangri-Las]] * [[The Trade Winds]] == See also == * [[List of record labels]] ==References== <references/> ==External links== * {{Discogs label|Red Bird}} *[http://www.bsnpubs.com/nyc/redbird/redbird.html Red Bird discography] {{Authority control}} [[Category:American record labels]] [[Category:Record labels established in 1964]] [[Category:Record labels disestablished in 1966]] [[Category:Pop record labels]]
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