Clubbo Records
Encyclopedia
Clubbo Records is a record label
specialising in parodies
of various pop music
genres from the 1960s to the 2000s. The label is promoted by a website
giving detailed fictional information on all of the songs and artists featured as well as mp3
s of selected songs by each featured artist.
-based musicians Elise Malmberg and Joe Gore, Design
er Richie Leeds is responsible for much of the site's design and artwork, although the logo
and additional graphics are by Malmberg. In terms of both music and graphics the creators pay meticulous attention to period detail.
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
specialising in parodies
Parody
A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...
of various pop music
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
genres from the 1960s to the 2000s. The label is promoted by a website
Website
A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
giving detailed fictional information on all of the songs and artists featured as well as mp3
MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
s of selected songs by each featured artist.
History
According to the label's website it was founded in the early 1960s by Chet Clubb and Morris "Bo" Bogerman (Clubbo = Clubb + Bo), Clubbo Record's is a record label more for small artist's. The small company does record and produce professional.History (actual)
In reality Clubbo is a label founded in 2004 by San FranciscoSan Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
-based musicians Elise Malmberg and Joe Gore, Design
Design
Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
er Richie Leeds is responsible for much of the site's design and artwork, although the logo
Logo
A logo is a graphic mark or emblem commonly used by commercial enterprises, organizations and even individuals to aid and promote instant public recognition...
and additional graphics are by Malmberg. In terms of both music and graphics the creators pay meticulous attention to period detail.
Releases (actual)
To date Clubbo has released two CDs of music from the website:- Clubbo - Music to Believe In: Sampler Vol. 1 (2004)
- Clubbo - Music to Believe In: Sampler Vol. 2 (2005)