Fantasy Records is a United States based record label, which was founded by Max and Sol Weiss in 1949 in San Francisco, California. The early years of the company were dedicated to issuing recordings by Dave Brubeck, Cal Tjader and others. The label was the first to record "in person" performances by Lenny Bruce. Fantasy's first subsidiary label, formed in 1951, was Galaxy Records. The Fantasy and Galaxy names were inspired by science-fiction magazines. In the mid-1950s Saul Zaentz joined the company and eventually instigated the companies major expansion. In 1967 he led a consortium which bought out the Weiss brothers. The following year, Fantasy's most successful act emerged when the local group Creedence Clearwater Revival (which he managed) released their first hit record "Susie Q" in 1968. A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... Hungarian chess-player; born July 21, 1857, at Szered on the Waag. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... The downtown San Francisco skyline, looking east from the central part of the city. ... Dave Brubeck is an American jazz pianist who wrote a number of jazz standards, including In Your Own Sweet Way and The Duke. ... Cal Tjader Cal Tjader (July 16, 1925 – May 4, 1982) has been called the greatest Anglo Latin jazz musician. ... Lenny Bruce being searched by a policeman Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was a controversial American stand-up comedian and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Galaxy Records was a subsidiary of Fantasy Records. ... A collection of well-known science-fiction novels and magazines Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology upon society and persons as individuals. ... // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning... Saul Zaentz (born February 28, 1921 in Passaic, New Jersey) was a big lover of music and movies as a child. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Creedence Clearwater Revival album cover Creedence Clearwater Revival, frequently referred to as CCR, or simply as Creedence, is the name of an American rock band, fronted by John Fogerty. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...

Zaentz, advised by the journalist Ralph J. Gleason and benefitting from profits from the sales of Creedence Clearwater Revival records, pursued a policy of acquisition concentrating on independent Jazz labels. Zaentz had picked up Debut Records as a wedding present from Bassist Charles Mingus to which were added Good Time Records, Prestige Records (in 1971), Riverside Records and Milestone Records (both 1972), Stax Records (1977), Contemporary Records (1984), Specialty Records (1991), Pablo Records (1987), Takoma Records and Kicking Mule Records (both 1995). Ralph J. Gleason (1917-1975) was an influential American jazz and pop music critic. ... Debut Records is a United States jazz record company, which was founded in 1952 by Bassist Charles Mingus, his then wife Celia and Drummer Max Roach, this short lived label was an attempt to avoid the compromises of working for major companies. ... Charles Mingus Stamp issued by the USPS on September 16, 1995. ... Good Times Records is a subsidiary of Fantasy Records. ... Prestige Records was a record label founded by Bob Weinstock in 1949, initially as New Jazz. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Riverside Records is a United States record label specializing in jazz. ... Milestone Records is a United States based jazz record label, founded in 1966 by Orrin Keepnews and Dick Katz in New York City. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Stax Records was a Memphis, Tennessee based record label that existed from 1959 to 1976. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... Contemporary Records was a record label which was purchased by Fantasy Records in 1984. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Categories: Record labels | Music stubs ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pablo Records was a record label founded by Norman Granz in 1973. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Takoma Records was a record label which was acquired by Fantasy Records. ... Kicking Mule Records was a record label which was acquired by Fantasy Records. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Fantasy also built its landmark headquarters building at the corner of Tenth and Parker in Berkeley, California in 1970 which was nicknamed "the house that Creedence built." In 2004 Fantasy was sold to a consortium led by Norman Lear and merged with Concord Records. Berkeley as seen from the Claremont Canyon reserve Berkeley is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area of northern California, in the United States. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Norman Lear Norman Lear (born July 27, 1922) is an American television writer and producer who produced such popular 1970s sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son and Maude. ... Concord Records is well known jazz record label established in 1969 (?) in Concord, California by Carl Jefferson, who also started the Concord Jazz Festival. ...

See also

• List of record labels

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

External link

• Official site