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Cadence 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 based in New York City
New York City

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. It was founded by Archie Bleyer
Archie Bleyer

Archie Bleyer was an American Arranger and Bandleader.He was born in the Corona, Queens section of the New York, New York borough of Queens. He began playing the piano when he was only seven years old....
, who had been the musical director and orchestra
Orchestra

An orchestra is an Musical ensemble, usually fairly large with string, brass, woodwind sections, and possibly a percussion section as well. The term orchestra derives from the name for the area in front of an theatre of ancient Greece reserved for the Greek chorus....
 leader for Arthur Godfrey
Arthur Godfrey

Arthur Morton Leo Godfrey was an United States radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname, The Old Redhead....
 in 1952. Bleyer had written a few hot songs in 1932-34 (Fletcher Henderson
Fletcher Henderson

Fletcher Hamilton Henderson, Jr. was an United States pianist, bandleader, arrangement and composer, important in the development of big band jazz and Swing ....
's "Business in F" is a good example) and had a band that recorded for ARC in 1934 and 1935 (his records were issued on Vocalion
Vocalion Records

Vocalion Records was a record label historically active in the United States and in the United Kingdom.Vocalion was founded in 1916 by the Aeolian Piano Company of New York City, which also introduced a line of phonographs at the same time....
, Melotone
Melotone Records

Melotone Records has been the name of two unrelated record companies.* Melotone Records - Australia* Melotone Records - United States...
, Perfect
Perfect Records

Perfect Records was a United States based record label of the 1920s and 1930s. It was a subsidiary of Path? Records, producing standard lateral cut gramophone record for the US market....
 and Romeo
Romeo Records

Romeo Records was a record label based in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. It was a subsidiary of Cameo Records, manufactured to be sold exclusively at the S....
).

The first recording star for Cadence was Godfrey alumnus Julius La Rosa
Julius La Rosa

Julius La Rosa is an United States Pop music singer, whose reputation as a respectful and crafty interpreter of traditional pop music is still overshadowed by his controversial on-the-air firing from Arthur Godfrey's radio show in 1953....
.






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Cadence 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 based in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
. It was founded by Archie Bleyer
Archie Bleyer

Archie Bleyer was an American Arranger and Bandleader.He was born in the Corona, Queens section of the New York, New York borough of Queens. He began playing the piano when he was only seven years old....
, who had been the musical director and orchestra
Orchestra

An orchestra is an Musical ensemble, usually fairly large with string, brass, woodwind sections, and possibly a percussion section as well. The term orchestra derives from the name for the area in front of an theatre of ancient Greece reserved for the Greek chorus....
 leader for Arthur Godfrey
Arthur Godfrey

Arthur Morton Leo Godfrey was an United States radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname, The Old Redhead....
 in 1952. Bleyer had written a few hot songs in 1932-34 (Fletcher Henderson
Fletcher Henderson

Fletcher Hamilton Henderson, Jr. was an United States pianist, bandleader, arrangement and composer, important in the development of big band jazz and Swing ....
's "Business in F" is a good example) and had a band that recorded for ARC in 1934 and 1935 (his records were issued on Vocalion
Vocalion Records

Vocalion Records was a record label historically active in the United States and in the United Kingdom.Vocalion was founded in 1916 by the Aeolian Piano Company of New York City, which also introduced a line of phonographs at the same time....
, Melotone
Melotone Records

Melotone Records has been the name of two unrelated record companies.* Melotone Records - Australia* Melotone Records - United States...
, Perfect
Perfect Records

Perfect Records was a United States based record label of the 1920s and 1930s. It was a subsidiary of Path? Records, producing standard lateral cut gramophone record for the US market....
 and Romeo
Romeo Records

Romeo Records was a record label based in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. It was a subsidiary of Cameo Records, manufactured to be sold exclusively at the S....
).

The first recording star for Cadence was Godfrey alumnus Julius La Rosa
Julius La Rosa

Julius La Rosa is an United States Pop music singer, whose reputation as a respectful and crafty interpreter of traditional pop music is still overshadowed by his controversial on-the-air firing from Arthur Godfrey's radio show in 1953....
. Other Godfrey alumnae signed to the label included the Chordettes
The Chordettes

The Chordettes were a female popular music singing quartet, usually singing a cappella, and specializing in traditional pop music. The Chordettes were one of the longest lived human voice musical ensemble with roots in the mainstream pop music and vocal harmony of the 1940s and early 1950s....
. According to legend, Bleyer was fired from the Godfrey show when he signed someone Godfrey regarded as a rival to a record deal. (Ironically, Godfrey later fired singer Julius La Rosa in October 1954, causing a storm of controversy at the time.) The label also produced the early hits of 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"....
 and The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers are brothers and top-selling country music-influenced rock and roll performers, known for steel-string guitar playing and close harmony singing....
, as well as Johnny Tillotson
Johnny Tillotson

Johnny Tillotson is an United States singing and songwriter. Tillotson enjoyed his greatest success in the early 1960s when he scored a series of Top 40 hit record including "Poetry in Motion" and the self-penned "It Keeps Right on a-Hurtin'." In total, he placed 30 single and albums in the Billboard record chart between 1958 and 1984,...
. Virtuoso jazz/classical pianist Donald Shirley was signed with Cadence in the 50's and 60's. Candid Records
Candid Records

Candid Records was founded as a subsidiary of Archie Bleyer's Cadence Records label in New York City in 1960 in music. The jazz writer and civil rights activist, Nat Hentoff, worked as the label's A&R director, aiming to create a representative catalog of the jazz of the day....
 was the company's short-lived jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 subsidiary.

Cadence had nearly 100 charted American singles during the 1950s and into the 1960s. It produced the 1962 smash bestseller parody
Parody

A parody , in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, or author, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation....
 album, "The First Family
The First Family (album)

The First Family is a comedy album recorded on October 22, 1962, as a good-natured parody of President John F. Kennedy, both as Commander-in-Chief and as a member of a large, Celebrity politics family....
" by Vaughn Meader
Vaughn Meader

Abbott Vaughn Meader was an United States comedian and impersonator whose achievement of fame with The First Family album spoofing President John F....
, which was, to that time, the fastest-selling album in history, featuring hilarious impressions of President John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy

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, wife Jackie Kennedy, as well as newsmakers like Nikita Kruschev and vice-president Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Humphrey

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. A follow-up album released in March of 1963 did not do as well, and shortly thereafter, the two albums were taken out of print, following the assassination of Kennedy in Dallas. The departures of the Everly Brothers in 1960 (to Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an United States record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is also affectionately known as "Warners" and 'the Bunny', based on the Bugs Bunny cartoons released by Warner Bros....
) and of Andy Williams in 1961 (to 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....
), along with radical changes in public taste and the music business brought on by the 1964 British invasion
British Invasion

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, led to the decline of the company by 1964. Bleyer opted to shut down Cadence, and sold Williams' masters to the singer, which he bought mainly because he wanted to keep Cadence from reissuing his old material in competition with his new material. Bleyer wanted Williams to buy the entire Cadence catalogue which he did. Williams reissued his old albums on Columbia and formed Barnaby Records
Barnaby Records

Barnaby Records was an United States record company founded by singer Andy Williams in 1963 with his purchase of soon-to-be-liquidated Cadence Records....
 to manage the Cadence catalogue.

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    List of record labels

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