ABKCO Records is a record company owned by music impresario Allen Klein. The label was originally named Cameo-Parkway Records, but renamed after is was purchased by Klein in 1967. The record industry (or recording industry) is the industry that manufactures and distributes mechanical recordings of music. ... Allen Klein (born December 18, 1931) is a business manager. ... Cameo and its sister label Parkway were a major Philadelphia-based record label. ... See also: 1966 in music, other events of 1967, 1968 in music, 1960s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 15 - The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. ...

Its catalog includes albums by The Rolling Stones, Sam Cooke, Phil Spector, and Herman's Hermits. The Rolling Stones are an British rock group who rose to prominence during the 1960s. ... Sam Cooke (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964) was a popular and influential American gospel, R&B, soul, pop singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. ... Harvey Phillip Phil Spector (born December 26, 1940) is a highly influential American record producer who turned out some of the best-known popular music of the 1960s and 1970s. ... Hermans Hermits was a British rock band in the 1960s, formed in Manchester, England in 1963 (see 1963 in music). ...

ABKCO stands for "Allen B. Klein Company", but was sometimes jokingly referred to by Allen Klein as "A Better Kind of COmpany".

Trivia

"Beware of ABKCO" "Beware of Darkness" is a song by George Harrison that featured on his first post-beatle album "All Things Must Pass". When he was demoing this song for Phil Spector during 1970 he jokingly changed one line of the lyrics to "Beware of ABKCO", probably referring to the economical disaster the Beatles went through because of Allen Klein's mismanagement. Allen Klein (born December 18, 1931) is a business manager. ...

See also

• List of record labels

The following is a partial list of record labels, both past and present. ...

External link

• Official site