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Colpix Records

Colpix Records was the first recording company for Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
-Screen Gems

Screen Gems

Screen Gems is an United States subsidiary company of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia Pictures that has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation....
. Colpix got its name from combining Columbia (Col) and Pictures (Pix), and was founded by Stu Phillips

Stu Phillips

Stu Phillips is an United States television and film music composer, Conducting, and record producer....
in the 1958

1958 in music

Events*January 28 - Little Richard begins attending classes at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama*January 29 - Bo Diddley records "Say Man", a #3 R&B hit when it is released in the Fall of 1959....
, and was 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....
. Lester Sill

Lester Sill

Lester Sill was an United States record label executive, best remembered as Phil Spector's partner in Philles Records , and also as the head of both Colpix Records and the later Colgems Records....
later headed the label, after breaking with Philles Records

Philles Records

Philles Records was a record label formed in 1961 in music by Phil Spector and Lester Sill, the label taking its name from a hybrid of their first names....
partner Phil Spector

Phil Spector

Harvey Philip Spector is an United Statesn record producer and songwriter.The originator of the "Wall of Sound" production technique, Spector was a pioneer of the 1960s' girl group sound and clocked in over twenty-five Top 40 hits between 1960 and 1965....
.

Artists for the label included Lou Christie

Lou Christie

Lou Christie is an United States singer-songwriter best known for three separate strings of pop music hit record in the 1960s, with notable peaks in 1963, 1966, and 1969....
, James Darren

James Darren

James William Ercolani , best known as James Darren, is an United States television and film actor, television director, and singer....
, Paul Petersen

Paul Petersen

This is about the American actor. For the Norwegian gymnast, see Paul Pedersen.Paul Petersen is an United States film actor, singer, novelist, and activist....
, Shelley Fabares

Shelley Fabares

Michele Ann Marie "Shelley" Fabares is an United States actress and singer, known primarily for her roles on movies, soap operas and television....
(the latter two also costars of The Donna Reed Show
The Donna Reed Show

The Donna Reed Show is an United States situation comedy which aired on American Broadcasting Company from 1958 in television to 1966 in television....
) and The Marcels

The Marcels

The Marcels were a doo-wop musical group known for turning beloved United States classical popular music songs into rock and roll. The group formed in 1959 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, with lead Cornelius Harp, bass Fred Johnson, Gene Bricker, Ron Mundy, and Richard Knauss....
. Two of the label's best known number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
Singles Charts were "Blue Moon" by the Marcels in the spring of 1961, and Shelley Fabares' "Johnny Angel" in the spring of 1962.

Colpix also released a soundtrack album of Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. , was an American List of animation studios that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century....
cartoons.

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Colpix Records was the first recording company for Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures

Screen Gems

Stu Phillips

Stu Phillips is an United States television and film music composer, Conducting, and record producer....
in the 1958

1958 in music

New York City

Lester Sill

Philles Records

Philles Records was a record label formed in 1961 in music by Phil Spector and Lester Sill, the label taking its name from a hybrid of their first names....
partner Phil Spector

Phil Spector

Lou Christie

Lou Christie is an United States singer-songwriter best known for three separate strings of pop music hit record in the 1960s, with notable peaks in 1963, 1966, and 1969....
, James Darren

James Darren

James William Ercolani , best known as James Darren, is an United States television and film actor, television director, and singer....
, Paul Petersen

Paul Petersen

This is about the American actor. For the Norwegian gymnast, see Paul Pedersen.Paul Petersen is an United States film actor, singer, novelist, and activist....
, Shelley Fabares

Shelley Fabares

The Marcels

Billboard Hot 100

Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. , was an American List of animation studios that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century....
cartoons. It included actual dialogue tracks from Huckleberry Hound

Huckleberry Hound

Hanna-Barbera's second series, made specifically for television, The Huckleberry Hound Show was a 1958 Syndication animated series. Three segments were included in the program: one featuring Huckleberry Hound; Yogi Bear and his sidekick Boo Boo ; and Pixie and Dixie, two mice who in each short found a new way to outwit the cat Mr....
, Yogi Bear

Yogi Bear

Yogi Bear is a fictional anthropomorphic bear who appears in animated cartoons created by Hanna-Barbera Productions. He made his debut in 1958 as a supporting character in The Huckleberry Hound Show....
, and Pixie and Dixie, and the recording was narrated by Daws Butler

Daws Butler

Daws Butler was a voice actor born in Toledo, Ohio, Ohio. He originated the voices of many famous animated cartoon characters, including Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, and Huckleberry Hound....
, speaking in the voice of Huckleberry Hound.

In the wake of President Kennedy's

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1961 until John F....
assassination

John F. Kennedy assassination

The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, Texas, at 12:30 p.m....
on November 22, 1963, numerous tribute albums were released the following year. Colpix's contribution, in association with United Press International

United Press International

United Press International is a news agency headquartered in the United States with roots dating back to 1907. Once a mainstay in the newswire service along with Associated Press and Reuters, it began to decline as afternoon newspapers, its chief client category, began to fail with the rising popularity of television news....
, was Four Days In November, including radio coverage of the President's arrival at Dallas Love Field, the moment of the shooting in Dealey Plaza

Dealey Plaza

Dealey Plaza , in the historic West End, Dallas district of Downtown Dallas Dallas, Texas, Texas , is the infamous location of the John F. Kennedy assassination on November 22, 1963....
, and the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald

Lee Harvey Oswald

Lee Harvey Oswald was, according to three United States government investigations, the John F. Kennedy assassination of President of the United States John F....
two days later. The album was released in a gatefold cover and included a booklet with UPI reporter Merriman Smith's account of the assassination.

The label was discontinued in 1966

1966 in music

Events*January 3 - Hullabaloo shows promotional videos of The Beatles songs "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work It Out".*January 8 - Shindig! airs for the last time on American Broadcasting Company, with musical guests the Kinks and the Who...
, and was promptly replaced by Colgems Records

Colgems Records

Colgems Records was a record label which existed from 1966 in music to 1971 in music. It was a joint venture between Columbia Pictures-Screen Gems and RCA Victor, to issue records by The Monkees and other Screen Gems artists....
, which was primarily used for releases by The Monkees

The Monkees

The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
during their four-year existence. Prior to their involvement with The Monkees, Davy Jones

Davy Jones (actor)

Davy Jones is a Grammy winning, England pop music singer-songwriter and Tony-nominated Primetime Emmy Award-nominated actor best known as a member of The Monkees....
and Michael Nesmith

Michael Nesmith

Robert Michael Nesmith in Harris County, Texas, is an United States musician, songwriter, actor, record producer, novelist, businessman, and philanthropist, perhaps best known for his time in the musical group The Monkees and on the TV series of the same name....
(under the pseudonym Michael Blessing) had each signed to Colpix Records as solo artists.

Colpix was the first big label for singer and pianist Nina Simone

Nina Simone

Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her stage name Nina Simone , was a Grammy Award-nominated American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger and civil rights activist....
, after having made her debut on Bethlehem Records

Bethlehem Records

Bethlehem Records was a record label founded by Gus Wild and bought by King Records . It is mainly remembered for its jazz releases. It was the record company under which Nina Simone's 1958 in music debut album came out ....
. She recorded albums for the label from 1959 (The Amazing Nina Simone
The Amazing Nina Simone

The Amazing Nina Simone is an album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. It was her first album for the label Colpix Records, which would quickly be followed by 8 albums on the same label, before signing with Philips Records in 1964....
) through 1964 (Folksy Nina
Folksy Nina

Folksy Nina is an album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone . It includes live tracks recorded on the 12th of May, 1963 at Carnegie Hall....
). In 1966 they released Nina Simone with Strings
Nina Simone With Strings

Nina Simone with Strings is an album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone . The album was released without her knowing after she had left Colpix Records and had already made albums for Philips Records....
, an album of left-overs with strings added, when Simone was already signed to Philips Records

Philips Records

Philips Records is a record label that was founded by Dutch electronics giant Philips. It was started as Philips Phonographische Industries in 1950 in music....
.

Rhino Records issued a double compact disc

Compact Disc

A Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store Data , originally developed for storing digital audio. The CD, available on the market since October 1982, remains the standard physical medium for sale of commercial Sound recording and reproduction to the present day....
compilation, The Colpix-Dimension Story, in 1994, which also included selections from Dimension Records

Dimension Records

Dimension Records was a record label founded in 1962 in music in New York City by Don Kirshner and Al Nevins, owners of Aldon Music. It concentrated on the girl group sound and showcased songs by Gerry Goffin and Carole King....
, a related label.

Colpix Records

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