Rhino Records
Parent company	Warner Music Group
Founded	1978
Founder(s)	Harold Bronson and Richard Foos
Distributing label	Rhino Records (In the US), WEA (Outside the US)
Genre(s)	Various
Country	US
Web address	http://www.rhino.com/

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Originally, Rhino was known for releasing retrospectives of famous comedy performers, including Richard Pryor, Stan Freberg, Tom Lehrer, and Spike Jones. But in recent years, Rhino has also been a full-fledged entertainment unit specializing in home video/DVD re-issues of television shows such as The Lone Ranger, My Favorite Martian, and Mystery Science Theater 3000, and compact disc releases of select artists and movie soundtracks. Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American comedian, actor, and writer. ... Stanley Victor Freberg (born August 7, 1926 in Los Angeles) is a voice actor, comedian, and advertising creative. ... Tom Lehrer in 1960. ... Spike Jones For the music video and film director, see Spike Jonze. ... DVD-R writing/reading side DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... The Lone Ranger The Lone Ranger was an early, long-running radio and television show based on characters created by George W. Trendle of Detroit, Michigan and developed by writer Fran Striker of Buffalo, New York. ... My Favorite Martian was an American television sitcom aired on CBS from 1963 to 1966. ... Movie theater view, featuring the short film Hired!. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988–1999), usually abbreviated MST3K, is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson featuring a man and his robot sidekicks who are trapped on a satellite in space and forced to watch particularly bad movies. ... The Compact Disc logo was inspired by that of the previous Compact Cassette. ...

Rhino started as a record shop in 1973 by Richard Foos. It became a record label five years later thanks to the effort of then-store manager Harold Bronson. Their early releases were mostly novelty records and some punk rock singles; the difficulties involved in getting airplay and distribution for such material eventually caused Foos and Bronson to take the label in other directions. By the mid-1980s most of their releases were reissues of previously released recordings licensed from other companies. Creative packaging and superior sound quality soon made Rhino one of the most respected reissue labels. They also continued to produce new music, with releases on subsidiary labels such as RNA (Rhino New Artists) and Forward as well as the main Rhino label. However, their artists tended to generate more critical acclaim than public interest; sales totals in the low five figures or less were routine for Rhino-produced albums, and the less costly, less risky reissue business became the company's real reason for existence.

In 1986 Rhino signed a six-year distribution agreement with Capitol Records. In 1989 Rhino and Capitol's parent EMI made a deal to jointly acquire Roulette Records; Rhino received the US rights to Roulette's catalog, excluding jazz. When the distribution deal with Capitol ended in 1992, Rhino signed a new distribution deal with WEA, and in turn Time Warner bought a 50% stake in the record company. In 1998 Time Warner bought the other half of Rhino, thus the company became a wholly-owned unit of Time Warner and in 1999, they formed the "Rhino Handmade" imprint of limited edition reissues. Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, owned by EMI. // History The Capitol Records company was founded by the songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942, with the financial help of movie producer Buddy DeSylva and the business acumen of Glenn Wallichs, (1910-1971) (owner of Music City, at... The EMI Group is a major record label, based in Kensington in London, in the United Kingdom. ... Roulette Records is a record label which was started late 1956 by George Goldner, Joe Kolsky, Morris Levy and Phil Khals, but the label was soon sold to Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore. ... Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) is one of the four major record labels. ... Time Warner Inc. ...

It is through this merger that the label has released remastered editions of collections from such bands as Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Yes, The Doobie Brothers, Chicago, and The Doors, as well as soundtracks spanning the Turner-owned pre-1986 MGM and pre-1948 Warner Bros. periods, as well as WB's own post-1948 period. Among Rhino's soundtrack releases: Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Easter Parade, North by Northwest, Casablanca, King Kong, Doctor Zhivago, and Superman: The Movie. ELP can also stand for Extra Long Play, a format for the VCR tape. ... Yes is a progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968. ... The Doobie Brothers are an American rock band, best known for hit singles like Black Water and What a Fool Believes. They sold millions of records throughout the 1970s. ... Chicago is a rock band that was formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. ... The Doors (formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California) were a popular and influential American rock band. ... MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ... Gone with the Wind is a 1939 film adapted from Margaret Mitchells 1936 novel of the same name. ... This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ... Easter Parade is a 1948 musical film starring Fred Astaire and Judy Garland. ... North by Northwest is a 1959 MGM thriller by Alfred Hitchcock and is generally considered one of his best works. ... This article is about the film. ... King Kong battles a pterosaur in the 1933 version Kong from Laurentiiss 1976 remake King Kong and Ann Darrow in the 2005 version of King Kong, directed by King Kong is the name of the fictional giant gorilla, from Skull Island, who has appeared in several works, most of... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel, Superman Superman, also known as Superman: The Movie, is a 1978 Warner Bros. ...

Rhino also owns the rights to The Monkees' master tapes and film footage (which they acquired from Raybert Productions in the late 1980s), and thus has released home videos and CDs from the group. The Monkees in 1967 (left to right): Michael Nesmith, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork The Monkees were a four-man musical band created to be the stars of an American television series of the same name, which ran on NBC from 1966 to 1968. ... Raybert Productions was a 1960s production company, founded by Robert (Bob) Rafelson and Bert Schneider. ...

In 2004, Time Warner spun off its music divisions and today Rhino is part of the newly-organized Warner Music Group. Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) is one of the four major record labels. ...

Rhino's retrospective compact disc releases are often remastered to restore or improve upon the original analog release's audio quality, a common practice now. Remaster (and its derivations, frequently found in the phrases digitally remastered or digital remastering) is a word and concept ushered into the mass consciousness via the digital age, although it had existed before then. ...

In addition to dealing with archive material, the label also manages the US distribution or worldwide production of compilations for more recent Warner acts, including still-active artists such as Enya, New Order, and Chicago. Enya, birth name Eithne Ní Bhraonáin (sometimes presented in the media as the Anglicized Enya Brennan; b. ... New Order are an English rock group formed in 1980 by the surviving members of Joy Division following the suicide of singer Ian Curtis. ... Chicago is a rock band that was formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. ...

See also

• List of record labels

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

External link

• Official site