Cool piece on A&M records

Posted by: DrMark on 14 November 2012

NPR in the USA had this on today...can read or listen (or both!):

http://www.npr.org/blogs/there...al?ft=1&f=10001#

Sad how in the end the corporate disease ate it up. I still remember the A&M label on a a45 RPM of Herb's "Taste of Honey" that my parents had!

Posted on: 16 November 2012 by bluedog

Originally Posted by DrMark:

NPR in the USA had this on today...can read or listen (or both!):

http://www.npr.org/blogs/there...al?ft=1&f=10001#

Sad how in the end the corporate disease ate it up. I still remember the A&M label on a a45 RPM of Herb's "Taste of Honey" that my parents had!

Indeed, but nobody made Alpert and Moss sell the label to PolyGram. It did exist as a good label under their umbrella for a few years before record business economics forced them to rationalise.