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Verve Records is 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...
 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....
 record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
 now owned by the Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group is the largest business group and family of record labels in the Record industry. With a 25.5% market share, it is one of the Music industry....
. It was founded by Norman Granz
Norman Granz

Norman Granz was an American jazz music impresario and producer. Born in Los Angeles, son of Jewish immigrants from Tiraspol, Granz was a fundamental figure in American jazz, especially from about 1947 to 1960....
 in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels: Norgran Records and Clef Records (founded 1953) and material which had been licensed to Mercury
Mercury Records

Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Music Group in the US, and are both subsidiaries of Universal Music Group....
 previously.

Verve catalog grew throughout the 1950s and 1960s to include most of the major figures in jazz. It also recognized the potential of comedy
Comedy

Comedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western culture origins are found in Ancient Greece....
 albums, producing Spike Jones'
Spike Jones

Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones was a popular musician and bandleader specializing in performing satirical arrangements of popular songs. Ballads and classical works receiving the Jones treatment would be punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells and ridiculous vocals....
 first LP, Dinner Music For People Who Aren't Very Hungry
Dinner Music for People Who Aren't Very Hungry

Dinner Music For People Who Aren't Very Hungry - Spike Jones Demonstrates Your Hi-Fi was the first long-playing release by comedic bandleader Spike Jones....
 in 1956 and several best-selling albums featuring live performances by Shelley Berman
Shelley Berman

Sheldon Leonard "Shelley" Berman is an US comedian, writer, teacher, and actor....
 beginning in 1960.

Granz sold Verve to MGM in 1961 for $3 million.






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Verve Records is 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...
 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....
 record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
 now owned by the Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group is the largest business group and family of record labels in the Record industry. With a 25.5% market share, it is one of the Music industry....
. It was founded by Norman Granz
Norman Granz

Norman Granz was an American jazz music impresario and producer. Born in Los Angeles, son of Jewish immigrants from Tiraspol, Granz was a fundamental figure in American jazz, especially from about 1947 to 1960....
 in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels: Norgran Records and Clef Records (founded 1953) and material which had been licensed to Mercury
Mercury Records

Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Music Group in the US, and are both subsidiaries of Universal Music Group....
 previously.

History

The Verve catalog grew throughout the 1950s and 1960s to include most of the major figures in jazz. It also recognized the potential of comedy
Comedy

Comedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western culture origins are found in Ancient Greece....
 albums, producing Spike Jones'
Spike Jones

Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones was a popular musician and bandleader specializing in performing satirical arrangements of popular songs. Ballads and classical works receiving the Jones treatment would be punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells and ridiculous vocals....
 first LP, Dinner Music For People Who Aren't Very Hungry
Dinner Music for People Who Aren't Very Hungry

Dinner Music For People Who Aren't Very Hungry - Spike Jones Demonstrates Your Hi-Fi was the first long-playing release by comedic bandleader Spike Jones....
 in 1956 and several best-selling albums featuring live performances by Shelley Berman
Shelley Berman

Sheldon Leonard "Shelley" Berman is an US comedian, writer, teacher, and actor....
 beginning in 1960.

Granz sold Verve to MGM in 1961 for $3 million. Creed Taylor
Creed Taylor

Creed Taylor is an United States record producer. He is the founder of two jazz record labels, Impulse! Records and CTI Records. He was also a producer of note at Verve Records and is widely acknowledged for bringing major bossa nova talent from Brazil to record in the U.S....
 was appointed as producer, and adopted a more commercial approach, cancelling several contracts. Taylor brought the bossa nova
Bossa nova

Bossa nova is a style of Brazilian music popularized by Ant?nio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes and Jo?o Gilberto. Bossa nova acquired a large following, initially by young musicians and college students....
 to America with the Stan Getz
Stan Getz

Stanley Gayetzky or Stanley Gayetsky , usually known by his stage name Stan Getz, was an American jazz saxophone player. Known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, Getz's prime influence was the wispy, mellow tone of his idol, Lester Young....
/Charlie Byrd
Charlie Byrd

Charlie Lee Byrd was a famous American jazz and classical guitarist born in Suffolk, Virginia. Byrd collaborated on the famous 1962 album Jazz Samba with Stan Getz, a recording which pushed bossa nova into the mainstream of American music....
 LP Jazz Samba
Jazz Samba

Jazz Samba is a bossa nova LP by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd, released on the Verve Records label on February 13, 1962.Jazz Samba was the first major bossa-nova album on the United States jazz scene, and is often called the best-selling jazz album of all time....
 as well as Getz/Gilberto
Getz/Gilberto

Getz/Gilberto, is a jazz bossa nova album released in 1964 by the United States Saxophone Stan Getz and the Brazilian guitarist Jo?o Gilberto, and featuring composer and musician Antonio Carlos Jobim....
. Several arrangers of note worked for the Verve label too in the 1960s, including Claus Ogerman
Claus Ogerman

Claus Ogerman is a Germany musical arrangement/ Orchestration, conductor, and composer, perhaps best known for his work with Antonio Carlos Jobim....
 and Oliver Nelson
Oliver Nelson

Oliver Edward Nelson was an United States jazz Saxophone, clarinetist, arranger and composer....
. Claus Ogerman, by his own admission in Gene Lees' Jazzletter publication, arranged some 60-70 albums for Verve under Creed Taylor's direction from 1963-1967.

Shortly before leaving Verve in 1967, Taylor supervised the creation of a folk music
Folk music

Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including:* Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous with the term "Traditional music", also often including World Music and Roots music; the term "Traditional music" was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the other definition...
 subsidiary named Verve Folkways (later renamed Verve Forecast
Verve Forecast Records

Verve Forecast Records is a record label specializing in cutting edge material which was founded in 1967 by Verve Records and since been revived twice....
) by Verve executive Jerry Schoenbaum. But by now, new recordings began to decline & would cease altogether in the early 1970s.

In the seventies, the label became part of the PolyGram
PolyGram

PolyGram was the name from 1972 in music of the major label recording company started by Philips as a holding company for its music interests in 1945....
 label group, at this point incorporating the Mercury
Mercury Records

Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Music Group in the US, and are both subsidiaries of Universal Music Group....
/EmArcy
EmArcy Records

EmArcy Records is a jazz record label founded in 1954 by Mercury Records, and today a European jazz label owned by Universal Music Group....
 jazz catalog, which Philips
Philips

Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , usually known as Philips, is a Netherlands electronics company. It is one of the largest electronics companies in the world, founded and headquartered in the Netherlands....
, part owners of PolyGram had earlier acquired. Verve Records became the Verve Music Group after PolyGram was merged with Seagram
Seagram

The Seagram Company Ltd. was a large corporation headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada that was the largest Distilled beverage of alcoholic beverages in the world....
's Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group is the largest business group and family of record labels in the Record industry. With a 25.5% market share, it is one of the Music industry....
 in 1998. The jazz holdings from the merged companies were folded into this sub-group.

The label was revived in the mid-1980s for new releases. Yet a more important focus for the new Verve Records was the reissuing of its back catalogue, in ever more imaginative ways. The "Verve By Request" label began to reissue many original Verve bossa nova
Bossa nova

Bossa nova is a style of Brazilian music popularized by Ant?nio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes and Jo?o Gilberto. Bossa nova acquired a large following, initially by young musicians and college students....
 titles on CD in the late 1990s, and the Elite series revived many obscure albums which had languished for many years.

When Universal and Polygram merged in 1998, Verve's holdings were merged with Universal's GRP Recording Company to become Verve Music Group. This was run by producer Tommy LiPuma
Tommy LiPuma

Tommy LiPuma is an United States music producer. In his long career, he has worked with many musicians, including Miles Davis, Al Jarreau, Anita Baker, Natalie Cole, Claudine Longet, Dave Mason, the Yellowjackets, Michael Franks, Diana Krall, and The Story ....
. Ron Goldstein was named President of the merged companies.

Since 2002, the label has released a series of Verve Remixed
Verve Remixed

Verve Remixed is a series of albums released by Verve Records centered on the concept of classic Verve tracks, remixed by contemporary electronica music Record producers and disc jockey....
 compilation discs where classic tracks by Verve artists are remix
Remix

A remix is an alternative version of a song, different from the original version. A remixer uses Audio mixing to compose an alternate master recording of a song, adding or subtracting elements, or simply changing the equalization, dynamics, Pitch , tempo, playing time, or almost any other aspect of th...
ed by contemporary electronic music
Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology....
 DJs. By the mid-2000s, there was an extensive "Verve Vault" section on iTunes.

In December 2006 parent company Universal Music Group sacked 85% of the staff, reduced the artist roster, and shifted the catalog over to its UME division.

Some of the record labels in the Verve Music Group.
  • Impulse! Records
    Impulse! Records

    Impulse! Records was an American based jazz record label, originally launched in 1960 in music by Creed Taylor as a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records in New York City....
  • GRP Records
    GRP Records

    GRP Records is an United States jazz record company that was founded in New York by Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen in 1982....
  • Commodore Records
    Commodore Records

    Commodore Records was a United States-based independent record label known for issuing many well regarded recordings of jazz and swing music....
  • Coral Records
    Coral Records

    For the label that owned Coral Records, see Decca Records.Coral Records was a Decca Records subsidiary formed in 1949. It recorded pop artists McGuire Sisters and Teresa Brewer as well as rock 'n' roller Buddy Holly....
  • Bet-Car Records
    Bet-Car Records

    Bet-Car Records was a record label founded by jazz singer Betty Carter in 1970 in music to release her own recordings after her negative experiences with other recording companies....
  • Blue Thumb Records
    Blue Thumb Records

    Blue Thumb Records was an American record label founded in 1968 in music by Bob Krasnow, along with former A&M Records executives Tommy LiPuma and Don Graham....
  • Decca Records
    Decca Records

    Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 in music by Edward Lewis . Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
     (Its jazz holdings only and Decca's pre-1957 Brunswick Records
    Brunswick Records

    Brunswick Records is a United States based record label. The label is currently distributed by Koch Entertainment....
     jazz catalogue.)
  • Verve Forecast


List of some Verve artists


Instrumentalists

  • Johnny Hodges
    Johnny Hodges

    John Cornelius "Johnny" Hodges was an American alto saxophone and lead player of Duke Ellington's saxophone section. He spent 38 years with Ellington, leaving to lead his own band from 1951 to 1955, returning to the fold shortly before Ellington's triumphant return to prominence via the orchestra's performance at the 1956 Newport Jazz F...
  • Coleman Hawkins
    Coleman Hawkins

    Coleman Randolph Hawkins , nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was a prominent jazz Tenor saxophone.He is commonly regarded as the first important and influential jazz musician to use the instrument: Joachim E....
  • Charlie Parker
    Charlie Parker

    Charles Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker is widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians, along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington....
  • Count Basie
    Count Basie

    William "Count" Basie was an United States Jazz piano, organist, bandleader, and composer. Widely regarded as one of the most important jazz bandleaders of his time, Basie led his popular Count Basie Orchestra for almost 50 years....
  • Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington

    Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
  • Oscar Peterson
    Oscar Peterson

    Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, Order of Ontario was a Canada jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends, and was a member of jazz royalty....
  • Dizzy Gillespie
    Dizzy Gillespie

    John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie [/g?'l?spi/] was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, the youngest of nine children....
  • Bud Powell
    Bud Powell

    Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American Jazz piano. Powell has been described as one of "the two most significant pianists of the style of modern jazz that came to be known as bebop", the other being his friend and contemporary Thelonious Monk....
  • Lester Young
    Lester Young

    Lester Willis Young , nicknamed 'Prez', was an United States jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist. He was also known to play the trumpet, violin, and drums....
  • Kid Ory
    Kid Ory

    Edward "Kid" Ory was a jazz trombone and bandleader. He was born in Woodland Plantation near LaPlace, Louisiana.Ory started playing music with home-made instruments in his childhood, and by his teens was leading a well-regarded band in Southeast Louisiana....
  • Stan Getz
    Stan Getz

    Stanley Gayetzky or Stanley Gayetsky , usually known by his stage name Stan Getz, was an American jazz saxophone player. Known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, Getz's prime influence was the wispy, mellow tone of his idol, Lester Young....
  • Ben Webster
    Ben Webster

    Benjamin Francis Webster , aka "The Brute" or "Frog," was an influential United States jazz tenor saxophone. Webster, born in Kansas City, Missouri, was considered one of the three most important "swing tenors" along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young....
  • Bill Evans
    Bill Evans

    William John Evans was one of the most famous and influential American jazz pianists of the 20th century. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists, including Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Denny...
  • Roy Eldridge
    Roy Eldridge

    Roy David Eldridge , nicknamed "Little Jazz" was an United States jazz trumpet player. His sophisticated use of harmony, including the use of tritone substitutions, his virtuosic solos and his strong influence on Dizzy Gillespie mark him as one of the most exciting musicians of the Swing Era and a precursor of bebop....
  • Gerry Mulligan
    Gerry Mulligan

    Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan was an United States jazz saxophonist, composer and arrangement.Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophone in jazz history - playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz - he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis,...
  • Buddy Rich
    Buddy Rich

    Bernard "Buddy" Rich was an United States Jazz drumming, bandleader and former Marine. Rich was billed as "the world's greatest drummer" and was known for his virtuoso technique, power, and speed....
  • Gene Krupa
    Gene Krupa

    Gene Krupa was an influentialUnited States jazz and big band drummer and composer, known for his highly energetic and flamboyant style....
  • Illinois Jacquet
    Illinois Jacquet

    Jean-Baptiste Illinois Jacquet was a jazz tenor saxophonist most famous for his solo on "Flying Home". He is better known simply as Illinois Jacquet....
  • Art Tatum
    Art Tatum

    Arthur Tatum Jr. was an American jazz pianist and virtuoso.With an exuberant style that combined dazzling technique and sophisticated use of harmony, Art Tatum is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time....
  • Walter Wanderley
  • Antonio Carlos Jobim
    Antônio Carlos Jobim

    Ant?nio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim , also known as Tom Jobim, was a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist....
  • Kai Winding
    Kai Winding

    Kai Chresten Winding was a popular Denmark trombone and jazz composer. He is well known for a successful collaboration with fellow trombonist J....
  • Teddy Wilson
    Teddy Wilson

    Theodore Shaw "Teddy" Wilson was a Jazz piano from the United States of America born in Austin, Texas. His sophisticated and elegant style graced the records of many of the biggest names in jazz, including Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald....
  • Michael Brecker
    Michael Brecker

    Michael Leonard Brecker was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane,"[1] he won 15 Grammys as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat's Jazz Hall of Fame in 2007....
  • Kenny Burrell
    Kenny Burrell

    Kenneth Earl "Kenny" Burrell is an United States jazz guitarist. His playing is grounded in bebop and blues; he has performed and recorded with a wide range of jazz musicians....
  • Wes Montgomery
    Wes Montgomery

    John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery was an United States jazz guitarist. He is generally considered one of the major jazz guitarists, emerging after such seminal figures as Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian and influencing countless others, including Pat Martino, George Benson, and Pat Metheny....
  • Jimmy Smith
    Jimmy Smith

    Jimmy Smith may refer to:* Jimmy Smith , former NFL player with the Jacksonville Jaguars* Jimmy Smith , Australian rules footballer and coach of St Kilda...


Vocalists

  • Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby

    Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
  • Ella Fitzgerald
    Ella Fitzgerald

    Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
  • Astrud Gilberto
    Astrud Gilberto

    Astrud Gilberto is a Brazilian singer best known for her samba and bossa nova music, most famously as the vocalist on the Grammy Award-winning song "The Girl from Ipanema"....
  • Billie Holiday
    Billie Holiday

    Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter.Nicknamed Lady Day by her loyal friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing....
  • Betty Carter
    Betty Carter

    Betty Carter , born Lillie Mae Jones, was an United States jazz singer renowned for her Musical improvisation technique and idiosyncratic vocal style....
  • Linda Ronstadt
    Linda Ronstadt

    Maria Linda Ronstadt , known as Linda Ronstadt, is an United States popular music Singing and entertainer whose vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career....
  • Natalie Cole
    Natalie Cole

    Natalie Maria Cole is an influential United States singer-songwriter and performer who has won ten Grammy Awards. She achieved success in her early career as an R&B star, but smoothly changed her repertoire toward a more jazz orientated musical style in the early 1990s....
  • Blossom Dearie
    Blossom Dearie

    Blossom Dearie was an United States jazz singer and pianist, often performing in the bebop genre and known for her distinctive girlish voice....
  • Anita O'Day
    Anita O'Day

    Anita O'Day was an United States jazz singer. Jazz Critic Will Friedwald has said ?When you think of the great jazz singers, I would think that Anita is the only white woman that belongs in the same breath as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan.?...
  • Katharine McPhee
    Katharine McPhee

    Katharine Hope McPhee is an American pop music & R&B music singer, songwriter, actor, model , and television personality. She gained fame as a contestant on the American Idol of the Fox Broadcasting Company reality show American Idol, eventually finishing as the runner-up....
     (Verve Forecast)
  • Carmen McRae
    Carmen McRae

    Carmen Mercedes McRae was an United States jazz singer, composer, pianist, and actress. Considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century, it was her behind-the-beat phrasing and her ironic interpretations of song lyrics that made her memorable....
  • 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....
  • Mel Tormé
    Mel Tormé

    Melvin Howard Torm? , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known as one of the great jazz singers. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books....
  • Sally Kellerman
    Sally Kellerman

    Sally Claire Kellerman is an United States actress and singer known for her role as Margaret Houlihan in the film MASH , for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role....
  • Diana Krall
    Diana Krall

    Diana Jean Krall, Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian jazz pianist and singer. She is known for her graceful contralto vocals....
  • Sarah Vaughan
    Sarah Vaughan

    Sarah Lois Vaughan was an United States jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century"....
  • Eleftheria Arvanitaki
    Eleftheria Arvanitaki

    Eleftheria Arvanitaki is a Greeks pop folk singer of Icarian descent, born October 17, 1957 in Piraeus. She started her career in singing in 1980, by joining the group "Opisthodromiki Kompania" / "?p?s??d?????? ???pa??a" and in 1981 she had her first guest appearance on a CD, by being featured in the album of Vangelis Germanos titled "Ta Bar...
  • Joe Williams
    Joe Williams (jazz singer)

    Joe Williams was a well-known jazz vocalist, a baritone singing a mixture of blues music, ballads, popular songs, and jazz standards....
  • Lizz Wright
    Lizz Wright

    Lizz Wright is an United States jazz singer and composer.Wright was born in the small town of Hahira, Georgia, one of three children and the daughter of a Minister of religion....
  • Queen Latifah
    Queen Latifah

    Dana Elaine Owens , better known by her stage name Queen Latifah, is an American Rapping, Singing, CoverGirl and actress. Latifah's work in music, film and television has earned her a Golden Globe Award award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, a Grammy Award, six additional Grammy nominations, an Emmy Award nominat...
  • Kenny Lattimore
    Kenny Lattimore

    Kenny Lattimore is an American Rhythm and blues singer. Among his most popular hits were "Never Too Busy" and "For You"....


Comedy

  • Shelley Berman
    Shelley Berman

    Sheldon Leonard "Shelley" Berman is an US comedian, writer, teacher, and actor....
  • Mort Sahl
    Mort Sahl

    Morton Lyon Sahl is a Canadian-born American comedian and actor. He is credited with pioneering a style of stand-up comedy that paved the way for Lenny Bruce, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, and Dick Gregory....
  • Jonathan Winters
    Jonathan Winters

    Jonathan Harshman Winters III is an United States comedian, actor, and former United States Marine Corps drill instructor....


Others

  • Brazilian Girls
    Brazilian Girls

    Brazilian Girls is a band from New York City known for their eclectic blend of electronic dance music with musical styles as diverse as tango music, chanson, house and Lounge music....
  • The Bridges
    The Bridges (band)

    The Bridges is an United States folk rock band that formed in Oxford, Alabama in 2005 consisting of cousins and siblings ,Brittany Painter Natalie Byrd , Stacey Byrd , Issaca Byrd , and Jeremy Byrd ....
  • Caravan
    Caravan (band)

    Caravan are an England band from the Canterbury area, founded by former The Wilde Flowers members Dave Sinclair, Richard Sinclair, Pye Hastings and Richard Coughlan....
  • Friend & Lover (Verve Forecast)
  • Tim Hardin
    Tim Hardin

    Timothy James Hardin was an United States folk music musician and composer. He is best remembered for writing the top 40 hits "If I Were a Carpenter" covered by Bobby Darin and "Reason to Believe" covered by Rod Stewart, as well as his own uneven recording career....
  • The Hombres
    The Hombres

    The Hombres were a Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee band that formed in 1966 with Gary Wayne McEwen on guitar, B.B. Cunningham on the electric organ , Jerry Lee Masters on bass guitar and John Will Hunter on the drums....
     (Verve Forecast)
  • Janis Ian
    Janis Ian

    Janis Ian is a Grammy Award-winning United States songwriter, singer, multi-instrumental musician, columnist, and science fiction science fiction fandom-turned-author....
  • Jim and Jean
    Jim and Jean

    Jim and Jean, composed of Jim Glover and Jean Ray , were a folk music duo who performed and recorded music from the early 1960s to the late 1960s.They were married for a time, and were listed as Jim and Jean Glover in the liner notes of their albums, but eventually went their separate ways....
     (Verve Folkways and Verve Forecast)
  • Bob Lind
    Bob Lind

    Bob Lind is a folk music singer/songwriter who reached the height of his success during the 1960s. Lind is best known for his transatlantic chart hit single , "Elusive Butterfly", which was a #5 hit in 1966....
     (Verve Folkways)
  • The Mothers of Invention
    The Mothers of Invention

    The Mothers of Invention was an American rock and roll band active from 1964 to 1975. They mainly performed works by and were the original recording group of composer and guitarist Frank Zappa, although other members have an occasional writing credit....
  • Ricky Nelson
    Ricky Nelson

    Eric Hilliard "Ricky" Nelson, later known as Rick Nelson , was an United States singer, musician and actor. With more than 50 Billboard Hot 100 hits, Nelson was second to Elvis Presley as the most popular rock and roll artist of the late 1950s....
  • Laura Nyro
    Laura Nyro

    Laura Nyro was an United States composer, lyricist, singer and pianist. Her style was a distinctive hybrid of Brill Building-style New York pop, mixed with elements of jazz, gospel music, rhythm and blues, show tunes and rock music....
     (Verve Folkways)
  • The Righteous Brothers
    The Righteous Brothers

    The Righteous Brothers were the musical duo of Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield. They recorded from 1963 through 1975, and continued to perform until Hatfield's death in 2003....
  • Talk Talk
    Talk Talk

    Talk Talk were a popular British Rock music group that were active from 1981 to 1991. In mainstream circles, the group is most well known for their early synthpop singles, including the international hits "Today", "Talk Talk", "It's My Life ", "Such a Shame", "Dum Dum Girl", "Life's What You Make It " and "Living in Another World"....
  • The Velvet Underground
    The Velvet Underground

    The Velvet Underground was an American Rock music band first active, in various incarnations, from 1965 to 1973. Their best-known members were Lou Reed and John Cale, who both went on to find success as solo artists....
  • Frank Zappa
    Frank Zappa

    Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
  • Larry Norman
    Larry Norman

    Larry David Norman was an riddle United States Christian musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and humorist. Norman's recordings are noted for their Christianity and social subject matter, and he is often described as the "father of Christian rock music"....
  • Timothy Hodge
  • Bruce Palmer
    Bruce Palmer

    Bruce Palmer was a Canadian musician most famous for playing bass guitar in the influential folk-rock band Buffalo Springfield....


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:...
  • Verve Remixed
    Verve Remixed

    Verve Remixed is a series of albums released by Verve Records centered on the concept of classic Verve tracks, remixed by contemporary electronica music Record producers and disc jockey....


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