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Barnaby Records was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 record company founded by singer Andy Williams
Andy Williams

Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams is a legendary American pop singer. Andy Williams has recorded 18 gold and three platinum certified albums. When Ronald Reagan was president, he declared Andy's voice to be "a national treasure"....
 in 1963 with his purchase of soon-to-be-liquidated Cadence Records
Cadence Records

Cadence Records was an United States record company based in New York City. It was founded by Archie Bleyer, who had been the musical director and orchestra leader for Arthur Godfrey in 1952....
. It held the rights to work by a number of popular music performers including Williams work before he was with Columbia Records
Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
.

Williams got control of the Cadence master tapes in the 60s,but he limited releases of the Cadence material to that of himself and another former Cadence artist, Lenny Welch, to LPs that were released on Williams' current label at the time, Columbia Records.

In 1970, Williams created the Barnaby label to not only to release the rest of the long unreleased Cadence Archives (principally, that of the Everly Brothers, which had been long out of print but in continued great demand) but also new releases by new signings such as Ray Stevens (who scored a Top Ten hit with his single "Everything Is Beautiful").






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Barnaby Records was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 record company founded by singer Andy Williams
Andy Williams

Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams is a legendary American pop singer. Andy Williams has recorded 18 gold and three platinum certified albums. When Ronald Reagan was president, he declared Andy's voice to be "a national treasure"....
 in 1963 with his purchase of soon-to-be-liquidated Cadence Records
Cadence Records

Cadence Records was an United States record company based in New York City. It was founded by Archie Bleyer, who had been the musical director and orchestra leader for Arthur Godfrey in 1952....
. It held the rights to work by a number of popular music performers including Williams work before he was with Columbia Records
Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
.

Williams got control of the Cadence master tapes in the 60s,but he limited releases of the Cadence material to that of himself and another former Cadence artist, Lenny Welch, to LPs that were released on Williams' current label at the time, Columbia Records.

In 1970, Williams created the Barnaby label to not only to release the rest of the long unreleased Cadence Archives (principally, that of the Everly Brothers, which had been long out of print but in continued great demand) but also new releases by new signings such as Ray Stevens (who scored a Top Ten hit with his single "Everything Is Beautiful"). Barnaby also released some early LPs by Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy Buffett

James William "Jimmy" Buffett is a singer, songwriter, author, businessman, and recently a movie producer best known for his "island escapism" lifestyle and music including hits such as "Margaritaville" , and "Come Monday." He has a devoted base of Fan known as "Parrotheads." His band is called the Coral Reefer Band....
 well as a few LPs by Claudine Longet
Claudine Longet

Claudine Georgette Longet was a popular singer and recording artist during the 1960s and 1970s. She was also an actress and a dancer.Born in Paris, France, Longet was married to pop singer Andy Williams from 1961 until 1975....
, who was Williams's wife at the time.

Barnaby had several distributors (first CBS
Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
, then MGM
MGM Records

MGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946, for the purpose of releasing soundtrack albums of their musical films....
, before finally joining GRT in 1975). Once Barnaby ceased operating as a working record company at the end of the 1970s, Williams licensed the old Cadence and Barnaby material to various other labels such as Varèse Sarabande
Varèse Sarabande

Var?se Sarabande is a record label which specializes in film scores and cast recording. It aims to reissue of rare or unavailable albums as well as newer releases by artists no longer under a contract....
 and Rhino
Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment Company is an United States specialty record label and production company, owned by Warner Music Group....
, and Time-Life
Time-Life

Time-Life is a book, music, and video marketer, that since 2003 has been owned by a private equity company Ripplewood Holdings. Since 2003, Direct Holdings US Corp is the legal name of Time Life, and is no longer owned by its former parent Time Warner....
 after 1980.

Performers

Performers with some or all of their catalog owned by Barnaby include:
  • Paul Anka
    Paul Anka

    Paul Albert Anka, Order of Canada is a Canada singer, songwriter, and actor of Lebanese people origin. He became a Naturalization US citizen in 1990....
  • Jimmy Buffett
    Jimmy Buffett

    James William "Jimmy" Buffett is a singer, songwriter, author, businessman, and recently a movie producer best known for his "island escapism" lifestyle and music including hits such as "Margaritaville" , and "Come Monday." He has a devoted base of Fan known as "Parrotheads." His band is called the Coral Reefer Band....
  • The Chordettes
  • The Crickets
    The Crickets

    The Crickets were a rock & roll band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer/songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s.Their first hit record was "That'll Be the Day," released in 1957....
  • The Everly Brothers
  • Claudine Longet
    Claudine Longet

    Claudine Georgette Longet was a popular singer and recording artist during the 1960s and 1970s. She was also an actress and a dancer.Born in Paris, France, Longet was married to pop singer Andy Williams from 1961 until 1975....
  • Charles Mingus
    Charles Mingus

    Charles Mingus was an United States jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and occasional pianist. He was also known for his activism against racism....
  • Don Shirley
    Don Shirley

    Don Shirley is an American-Jamaican jazz pianist and composer.Shirley's prodigious piano skills were recognized early and Shirley began his career as a composer and virtuoso performer at a young age....
  • Ray Stevens
    Ray Stevens

    Ray Stevens is an United States country music and pop music singer-songwriter known for his novelty songs as well as more serious works. He was born in Clarkdale, Georgia, Georgia , a small town west of Atlanta, Georgia....
  • Cecil Taylor
    Cecil Taylor

    Cecil Percival Taylor is an United States pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the inventors of free jazz....
  • The Toshiko - Mariano Quartet
    The Toshiko - Mariano Quartet

    The jazz album The Toshiko - Mariano Quartet featuring Toshiko Akiyoshi on piano and Charlie Mariano on alto saxophone was recorded in New York in 1960 and released on the Candid Records label....
  • Lenny Welch
    Lenny Welch

    Lenny Welch , is an United States middle of the road /pop music singer. He was raised in Asbury Park, New Jersey, New Jersey. His biggest hit single, a cover version of the big band standard "Since I Fell for You," reached number 4 on United States Billboard Hot 100 in 1963....
  • Link Wray
    Link Wray

    Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray Jr was an United States rock and roll guitarist, songwriter and occasional singer.Wray was noted for pioneering a new sound for electric guitars, as exemplified in his hit 1958 instrumental "Rumble ", by Link Wray and his Ray Men, which pioneered an overdriven, distorted electric guitar sound, and also for ha...


See also

  • List of record labels
    List of record labels

    This is a list of notable record labels.Owing to the large number of entries, the list has been divided by the first letter of the label's name, with labels starting with a number added to this page:...


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