Atco Records
Parent company	Warner Music Group
Founded	1955
Founder(s)	Herb Abramson
Distributing label	Rhino Entertainment (US)
Genre(s)	Various.
Country of origin	US
Official Website	http://rhinorecords.com/

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Company History

Beginnings

Original logo

Atco Records was founded by Herb Abramson in 1955 as a sub label of Atlantic Records; operating as an outlet for acts that did not fit the format of Atlantic, which until 1968 was strictly blues, jazz, and R&B/soul. It also housed almost all of the company's non-African American artists (the main exception being The Young Rascals, who were considered a blue-eyed soul group.) The Atco name is simply an abbreviation of ATlantic COrporation. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Herb Abramson (1916-1999) was a record company executive and producer. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... Atlantic Records (Atlantic Recording Corporation) is an American record label, and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. ... The Rascals (also The Young Rascals) were an American blue-eyed soul group of the 1960s. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

In 1964 Atco released a single in the USA by the Beatles, "Ain't She Sweet" (flip side "Nobody's Child," with lead singer Tony Sheridan), which had been recorded in Hamburg in 1961. With lead vocal by John Lennon, "Ain't She Sweet" reached #19 on the Billboard chart in August 1964. Atco also released an album entitled Ain't She Sweet which featured the other two tracks by Sheridan and the Beatles from the Hamburg session and filled out by eight other songs (Beatles and other British Invasion numbers) covered by the Swallows. Aint She Sweet was an American album featuring four tracks recorded in Hamburg in 1961 by The Beatles featuring Tony Sheridan (except for the title song with vocal by John Lennon) and cover versions of Beatles and British Invasion songs recorded by The Swallows. ...

Atco went on to distribute other labels, such as: Robert Stigwood's RSO Records, Volt Records, Rolling Stones Records, and Ruthless Records in the late 1980s. Robert Stigwood (born April 16, 1934 in Adelaide, Australia) is an Australian-born entertainment entrepreneur. ... RSO Records was a record label, formed in partnership with Polydor Records by rock and roll and musical theatre impresario Robert Stigwood in the late 1960s, after the death of his business partner and mentor Brian Epstein. ... Volt Records was a subsidiary of Stax Records, started in 1965. ... Rolling Stones Records is the record label formed by The Rolling Stones in 1970, after their recording contract with Decca Records expired. ... Ruthless Records was the name of two different record labels, a Chicago punk label, and a Los Angeles hip hop label. ...

The twilight years

The last number one hit on Atco was "If Wishes Came True" by Sweet Sensation in 1990. In 1991, Atlantic merged Atco with its fledgling Eastwest Records label, and briefly operated the combination as "Atco/Eastwest Records." By 1993, the Atco name was dropped and the label continued operating as Eastwest Records. Since then, the Atco name and logo have been seen only on reissues of old material. As of mid-2005, its most recent release (in a joint venture with Rhino Records) was the soundtrack to the Bobby Darin biopic Beyond the Sea, starring Kevin Spacey and featuring Spacey's renditions of Darin classics. If Wishes Came True is a single by the R&B group Sweet Sensation and is taken from their 1990 album Love Child. ... Sweet Sensation is the name of a female dance music trio from the Bronx New York who specialized in freestyle. ... old logo current logo Eastwest Records was started in 1955 as a subsidiary label of Atlantic Records. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bobby Darin (May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) (born Walden Robert Cassotto) was one of the most popular American big band performers and rock and roll teen idols of the late 1950s. ... Beyond the Sea is the title of a hit song recorded by Bobby Darin in 1960. ... Kevin Spacey (born July 26, 1959) is a two time Academy Award winning American actor (film and stage) and director. ...

Revival

In 2006, Warner Music Group reactivated Atco Records in conjunction with Rhino Entertainment. A Warner Music Group executive, Karen Ahmet, has recently been promoted to head of Atco. She is based in Los Angeles, California. Scarlett Johansson and Art Garfunkel were among the first artists signed to the label. Johansson is recording an album of songs composed by Tom Waits. Garfunkel issued Some Enchanted Evening on January 30, 2007.[1] Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Scarlett Johansson (born November 22, 1984) is an American actress. ... Art Garfunkel in Bad Timing (1980) Arthur Ira Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) is an American white gollywog and actor, best known as half of the folk duo Simon and Garfunkel. ... Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. ... is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

Atco Records artists

• The Beatles
• Ginger Baker (Ginger Baker's Air Force)
• Bee Gees
• Mr. Acker Bilk
• Blind Faith
• Blue Magic
• Buffalo Springfield
• The Capitols (Karen)
• Eric Clapton
• The Coasters
• Arthur Conley
• Cream
• Bobby Darin
• Spencer Davis Group
• Dr. John
• Dream Theater
• Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity
• Bent Fabric and his Piano
• The Fireballs
• Genesis
• R.B. Greaves
• Tim Hardin
• Donny Hathaway
• Jorgen Ingmann
• INXS
• Scarlett Johansson
• Iron Butterfly
• Deon Jackson (Carla)
• Ben E. King
• King Curtis
• Last Words
• Loudness
• Lulu
• Pantera
• Michel'le
• Pat & The Sattelites
• Ratt
• Otis Redding (Volt & Atco)
• Bob Rivers (Critique & Atco)
• The Robins
• The Rose Garden
• Shadows Of Knight (Dunwich & Atco)
• Sonny & Cher
• Tangiers
• Nino Tempo & April Stevens
• Peter Townshend
• The Troggs
• Vandenburg
• Vanilla Fudge
• Yes

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See also

• List of record labels

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Notes

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External links

• Discography of Atco LP releases
• Atco Records label design at www.collectable-records.ru