| 1 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Reprise_Label_661.jpg]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:240:The letter R with two dots resembling a gramophone sound recording set-up.]] |
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| 4 | Reprise Records is a record label owned by the Creator/WarnerMusicGroup and currently its largest sub-label. It was founded as an independent vanity label by Music/FrankSinatra in 1960 with the aim of giving him greater artistic freedom than what he had under Creator/CapitolRecords, consequently birthing his nickname "Chairman of the Board." After struggling early on, the label was bought by Creator/WarnerBrosRecords three years later (they called it a "rescue takeover"), with Sinatra owning a third of its shares.[[note]]Prior to starting Reprise, Sinatra initially tried to get his own imprint with Capitol, but they refused. He then looked into buying out another label, with possible candidates including Roulette, budget label Tops and jazz label Creator/{{Verve|Records}} (where he was outbid by Creator/{{MGM|Records}}). During the last few years of his Capitol contract, he was simultaneously doing recordings for them and for Reprise.[[/note]] |
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| 6 | Sinatra's main philosophy when he founded the label was that all artists would be given full creative control of their work, and eventually ultimate ownership of their catalog. This means that most of Reprise's earliest artists now distribute under different labels. |
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| 8 | After the Warner takeover, Reprise's new owner, Mo Ostin, would lead the label away from the swing roster that Sinatra had built (including his Creator/RatPack buddies Music/DeanMartin and Creator/SammyDavisJr) and into the pop direction for which it became famous (starting with securing American rights to Music/TheKinks). The roster during the label's late 1960s and early '70s heyday included such artists as Music/JimiHendrix, Music/CaptainBeefheart, Music/TomLehrer, Music/NeilYoung (who's stayed with the label to this day, except during a brief, [[http://ultimateclassicrock.com/neil-young-geffen-records-infamous-rock-lawsuits/ ill-fated switch to]] Creator/GeffenRecords), Music/JoniMitchell, Music/RandyNewman, Music/GordonLightfoot, Music/FleetwoodMac, Music/JethroTull, Music/FrankZappa, and Music/TheBeachBoys. |
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| 10 | Fleetwood Mac's internal conflict and dwindling sales led to them being moved up to the parent label, where they would record the massively popular and critically acclaimed ''Music/{{Rumours}}''; this didn't bode well for Reprise's future. Reprise had been struggling to maintain good sales after coming down from the success they'd had in the early 1970s, and from 1976 to 1987, almost all of its artists were moved up to Warner. The exceptions were Sinatra, who kept the Reprise name alive for his own releases, later briefly hopping over to Qwest Records before moving back to Capitol, and Neil Young, who moved over to Geffen before joining the relaunched Reprise. From the label's revival in '87 onward, Ostin has worked to elevate Reprise into the incarnation it's recognized as being today. Most of the label's (many) former artists still distribute their work from that era through the label. Reprise currently holds the place of a secondary parent to Warner, hosting many small labels that Warner can't handle. |
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| 12 | Finally, if you've ever had a Warner-licensed song taken down from Website/YouTube, it probably belonged to Reprise — they're very serious about that. Despite this, unlike Warner, Reprise has a good relationship with videogames: they have a track pack on ''VideoGame/GuitarHero III'' and were completely supportive of ''Green Day: VideoGame/RockBand''. |
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| 14 | Keep in mind that most of the artists listed here are officially under Warner management, but distribute heavily through Reprise -- only a few of them are officially signed Reprise artists. |
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| 16 | !!List of current artists: |
| 17 | [[index]] |
| 18 | * Music/{{aha}} |
| 19 | * Music/ArcticMonkeys (licensed from Domino Recording Company) |
| 20 | * Music/ArtOfDying (actually signed to Disturbed's Intoxication Records, but the label is an imprint of Reprise) |
| 21 | * Bloodsimple |
| 22 | * Music/BoneThugsNHarmony |
| 23 | * Music/{{Boredoms}} |
| 24 | * Music/MichaelBuble |
| 25 | * Music/{{Cher}} |
| 26 | * Music/EricClapton |
| 27 | * [[Music/TheSmashingPumpkins Billy Corgan]] |
| 28 | * Music/{{Deftones}} |
| 29 | * Music/DepecheMode (US/Canadian/Mexican distributor) |
| 30 | * Music/{{Disturbed}} |
| 31 | * Music/DukeEllington |
| 32 | * Music/{{Enya}} |
| 33 | * Music/FleetwoodMac |
| 34 | * Music/GreenDay |
| 35 | * Music/JoshGroban |
| 36 | * Music/{{HIM}} |
| 37 | * Music/{{Mastodon}} |
| 38 | * Music/AlanisMorissette |
| 39 | * Music/MyChemicalRomance |
| 40 | * Music/{{Oasis}} (American distributor) |
| 41 | * Music/{{Pvris}} |
| 42 | * The Raconteurs |
| 43 | * Music/RiloKiley |
| 44 | * Music/TheSmashingPumpkins |
| 45 | * Music/StaticX |
| 46 | * Music/SteelyDan |
| 47 | * Music/TeganAndSara |
| 48 | * Music/TheUsed |
| 49 | * Music/NeilYoung |
| 50 | |
| 51 | !!List of former artists: |
| 52 | * Music/{{Ash}} (American distributor) |
| 53 | * Music/CharlesAznavour |
| 54 | * Music/BabesInToyland |
| 55 | * Music/BarenakedLadies |
| 56 | * Music/TheBeachBoys |
| 57 | * Music/TheBeeGees |
| 58 | * Music/TheB52s |
| 59 | * Creator/TheodoreBikel |
| 60 | * Music/BlackSabbath (American distributor) |
| 61 | * Music/BoneThugsNHarmony |
| 62 | * Music/{{Boredoms}} |
| 63 | * Creator/LennyBruce |
| 64 | * Music/JohnCale |
| 65 | * Music/CaptainBeefheart |
| 66 | * Music/BingCrosby |
| 67 | * Creator/SammyDavisJr |
| 68 | * Music/FatsDomino |
| 69 | * Music/RobDougan (American distributor) |
| 70 | * Creator/BuddyEbsen |
| 71 | * Music/{{Erasure}} (American distributor) |
| 72 | * Music/FaithNoMore |
| 73 | * Music/{{Fanny}} |
| 74 | * Music/{{Filter}}[[note]]now owned by Concord Music Group[[/note]] |
| 75 | * Music/WildManFischer |
| 76 | * Music/EllaFitzgerald |
| 77 | * Music/TheFugs |
| 78 | * Music/{{Heart|Band}} |
| 79 | * Music/JimiHendrix (American distrbutor) |
| 80 | * Music/TheJesusAndMaryChain (American distributor) |
| 81 | * Music/JethroTull (American distributor) |
| 82 | * UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson (via ''Washington Is for the Birds'', a 1966 comedy album that repurposed and manipulated clips of LBJ and other politicians) |
| 83 | * Music/TheKinks (American distributor) |
| 84 | * Music/TomLehrer |
| 85 | * Music/GordonLightfoot |
| 86 | * Music/LittleRichard |
| 87 | * Music/NickLowe (American distributor) |
| 88 | * Music/{{Maroon 5}} (under the Kara's Flowers name) |
| 89 | * Music/DeanMartin |
| 90 | * Music/TheMaskedMarauders (hoax {{Supergroup}} created by ''Magazine/RollingStone'' staffers who released a single album on the label in 1969, though it was listed as being a release of the fictional Deity Records) |
| 91 | * Music/JoniMitchell |
| 92 | * Music/{{Mudhoney}} |
| 93 | * Music/RandyNewman |
| 94 | * Music/NewOrder (American distributor) |
| 95 | * Music/{{Nico}}[[note]]now owned by Domino Records[[/note]] |
| 96 | * Music/MikeOldfield (American distributor from 1992 to 2003) |
| 97 | * Music/TomPetty |
| 98 | * Creator/RichardPryor |
| 99 | * Music/LouReed |
| 100 | * Music/TheReplacements |
| 101 | * Music/KennyRogers & the First Edition |
| 102 | * Music/RoxyMusic (American distributor) |
| 103 | * Music/PrimalScream (American distributor)[[note]]now owned by First International[[/note]] |
| 104 | * Creator/SoupySales |
| 105 | * Music/BobSeger |
| 106 | * Music/FrankSinatra |
| 107 | * Music/NancySinatra |
| 108 | * Music/{{Slade}} (American distributor) |
| 109 | * Music/TheSmiths (American distributor) |
| 110 | * Music/SonnyAndCher |
| 111 | * [[Music/SystemOfADown Serj Tankian]][[note]]has relicensed his Reprise albums to Swedish label Woah Dad![[/note]] |
| 112 | * Music/RichardThompson (American distributor) |
| 113 | * Music/ThrowingMuses |
| 114 | * Music/TinyTim |
| 115 | * Music/TomTomClub |
| 116 | * [[Music/MarcBolan T. Rex]] (American distributor) |
| 117 | * Music/AllenToussaint |
| 118 | * Music/{{Vangelis}} |
| 119 | * Music/{{Wilco}}: This one involved a famous case of ItWillNeverCatchOn: Reprise felt that their fourth album, to be released in September 2001, wasn't marketable enough. Wilco left the label with the rights to the album, as Reprise didn't feel that they were worth that much to begin with. The band hopped to Warner stablemate Creator/{{Nonesuch|Records}} and released the album in 2002. Its title? ''Yankee Hotel Foxtrot''. Its reception? Legendary. Its sales? Gold. Yeah, they were kicking themselves after that one. |
| 120 | * Music/PaulWilliams |
| 121 | * Music/DwightYoakam |
| 122 | * Music/ZappAndRoger |
| 123 | * Music/FrankZappa |
| 124 | [[/index]] |
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