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77-597: Hollywood Records is an American record label owned by the Disney Music Group which focuses on pop , rock , alternative , hip hop and country genres, also specializing in recordings for a more mature audience not suitable for the flagship Walt Disney Records label. Founded in December 1989, its current roster includes artists such as New Hope Club , Sofia Carson , Tini , Area21 , Queen , The Moss, Little Image, Almost Monday , Andy Grammer , Daisy

154-425: A ravine near Hot Springs, Arkansas , hundreds of miles off their intended route. Scalzo chose to imagine that they began reminiscing and decided to become ethereal beings on a permanent romantic trip, the answer to the song's question, "Where were they going without ever knowing the way?" Fastball followed up "The Way" with a second single, " Fire Escape ", and a third single, " Out of My Head ", which reached

231-574: A recording contract . Scalzo and Zuniga took turns singing and writing the songs, while Shuffield backed them up on drums. In 1996, Make Your Mama Proud arrived in stores. The album didn't sell very well, but it did win the "Best Pop Band" category at the Austin Music Awards (they tied with another local Austin band, The Wannabes). The following year, the members of Fastball were unsure of their future. The members of Fastball still had side jobs as late as January 1998. Tony Scalzo worked

308-672: A WDMC in New York. Walt Disney Productions formed the Wonderland Music Company in 1951. Disney's next push into music came from The Mickey Mouse Club as eight 6-inch 78 RPM records for the show hit shelves the week it premiered on television. Normal 7-inch 45 RPM versions were cut and released later, both through manufacturing partners of the Walt Disney Music Company. After a year, Golden Records and Am-Par Records turned over production of

385-899: A co-pub agreement with songwriter Melissa Peirce in 2012 with an extension in May 2015. In June 2012, Lucy Hale was signed to Hollywood Record formerly defunct country sublabel, Lyric Street, for a single and album due in 2013. In June 2013, Patrick Clifford was named Vice President of Music Publishing and A&R for Disney Music Publishing in Nashville with responsibility for the A&;R functions for Disney Music Group in Nashville. In November 2013, DMG and Bigger Picture Group signed an agreement for DMG to handle music licensing for Bigger Picture. After Bigger Picture's closure in 2014, DMG Nashville released its first studio album, Lucy Hale 's Road Between , on June 3. Disney Music Publishing , controls

462-479: A composer interview series, and kicked off at D23 . Walt Disney Records , the flagship record label of the group, was founded on February 4, 1956 as Disneyland Records , so that Disney would not have to release through third-party labels not associated with the studio, such as RCA Victor or Capitol Records , which had issued Disney albums in the past. Under the Disneyland label, among its other recordings,

539-513: A couple of bands that are still putting out real good quality guitar rock songs, and I think we're one of them." In June 2004, Fastball released their fourth album, Keep Your Wig On , on a new record label, Rykodisc. Keep Your Wig On was home to singles "Airstream", "Drifting Away", and "Lou-ee, Lou-ee", with the last being released as a single in Europe only. In 2007, "The Way" was voted No.94 on VH1's television special, The 100 Greatest Songs of

616-436: A deal with Yanni for Yanni Voices albums including a Buena Vista Concert extensive tour, two Yanni PBS specials and deals for the album's four vocal talent, Nathan Pacheco , Chloe, Ender Thomas and Leslie Mills. The label released albums, including from Kenny Loggins and Brian Wilson , until 2012. Lyric Street Records , was an American record label specializing in country music. President Randy Goodman, formerly

693-512: A general manager for RCA Records, founded the label in 1997. Among its first artists were Lari White, John Berry, Aaron Tippin, SHeDAISY and extremely popular Rascal Flatts. Carolwood Records was a short-lived subsidiary label of Lyric Street launched in October 2008. In April 2010, the label was folded into Hollywood Records . Mammoth Records , the formerly independent record label was founded by Jay Faires in 1989. In 1993 it became part of

770-636: A genuine soundtrack album of one of the Disney movies, Disneyland Records , another, less expensive Disney label, would release a cover version of the songs from that film. Buena Vista Records also operates as an imprint of Walt Disney Records and most recently has been employed to serve as a pseudonym for certain releases by Walt Disney Records such as the more adult-oriented Almost Alice and non Disney-branded releases, as well as releasing traditional albums for Walt Disney Records adult artists such as Billy Ray Cyrus and Nathan Pacheco . Buena Vista Records

847-561: A joint venture label for country music and worldwide country music genre projects with the label's first signed act of CB30 duo of brothers, Christian and Brody. The company and DigiTour Media formed in June 2017, RMI Recordings, a new label for "digital-first" talent. During American Idol 's Disney Night on April 29, 2018, DCappella , Disney Music Group's new a cappella singing group, made their debut. On Friday, August 23, 2019, Disney Music Group debuted their first podcast, For Scores ,

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924-583: A joint venture with WEA -owned Atlantic Records but hit the market again in 1997, when it was bought by the then Buena Vista Music Group, up until which it was based in North Carolina. It had a very successful alternative artist roster including acts such as Antenna, Blake Babies, Chainsaw Kittens, Dash Rip Rock, Dillon Fence, Frente!, Fun-Da-Mental, Fu Manchu, Jason & the Scorchers, Joe Henry, Juliana Hatfield, Kill Creek, Machines of Loving Grace,

1001-530: A little more attention to what we're doing." In October 2000, Fastball began touring in support of The Harsh Light of Day in Amsterdam . Despite the slowed success, the members of the group didn't regret any of their creative decisions, and their aim remained true. "It makes me feel proud that we're one of these song-oriented guitar bands" Scalzo told Richard Skanse in Rolling Stone . "I think there's

1078-528: A new commercial and creative agreement that enable Hollywood Records' artists to collaborate with the roster of producers and songwriters that are part of Universal. Since 2013, Hollywood Records also uses the brand name DMG Nashville to specialize in country music . The genre label was founded to provide music licensing for Bigger Picture Music Group . After Bigger Picture's closure in 2014, DMG Nashville released its first studio album; Lucy Hale 's Road Between . Starting in 2020, Hollywood Records has released

1155-536: A promotion to executive vice president from his post as senior vice president of marketing. Bunt became president on March 27, 2013. A unified licensing department was formed with in Disney Music Group by December 2012 under vice president of licensing Dominic Griffin. Lucy Hale signed with Hollywood Records' Lyric Street sublabel in June 2012 indicated a return to country music changed to DMG Nashville with her single release "You Sound Good To Me" in

1232-658: A selection of Disney short film music in England with the US release a year later. The Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs soundtrack album released by Victor was the first feature film soundtrack. Disney had sold its rights to the Snow White music to Bourne Co. Music as they needed more funds to complete the film. In 1938, Fantasound —the first Surround sound system—was designed and tested by Walt Disney Productions for

1309-479: A series of EPs under the name Music for the Movement, with social justice and protest songs. Hollywood BASIC [ sic ] was Hollywood's short-lived hip-hop subsidiary, run by Dave Funkenklein, which existed from 1990 to 1995. It did not survive the distribution transition its parent made to PolyGram Records , and all of its recordings were deleted, save for those by Organized Konfusion , which were repressed under

1386-586: A stint with another group called Wild Seeds, Shuffield introduced Zuniga to Scalzo, who had played in a band called the Goods in Orange County, California . The trio decided to form their own band, and began playing around the Austin area. When they first started out, the band tried out several names, such as Star 69, Magneto, Magneto USA, Ed Clark's Business Bible, and Starchy, before finally deciding to adopt

1463-417: A three-album contract, and subsequently released Pop Trash , only to terminate their contract after disappointing album sales. In 1998, the company decided to form Buena Vista Music Group (now Disney Music Group), integrating the operations of Walt Disney Records along with Hollywood, Lyric Street , Mammoth , and Disney Music Publishing . Bob Cavallo, former manager of Earth, Wind & Fire and Prince

1540-405: A way of expanding the company's music operations by looking to develop and promote the careers of a wide variety of artists in various genres. At the time, the company was limited to the release of soundtracks from Touchstone , and Hollywood Pictures films. The first act to be signed to the label was The Party , after being formed from Mouseketeers on The Mickey Mouse Club . Lawyer Peter Paterno

1617-477: A whole year without a president, but problems continued to the label and Pfeifer was fired in 1997, after the label revealed that he had lost over 150 million dollars since 1990. In 1997, Disney acquired Mammoth Records , in order to get an already-established record label that could succeed. However, the acquisition of Mammoth was a failure and the label was closed and integrated to Hollywood in 2003. Additionally, during this time, they had signed Duran Duran to

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1694-476: A worldwide basis, as a method of incurring collaboration between Disney's record labels and artists with Universal's production department. This allows DMG access to Universal's large roster of award-winning music producers and songwriters. In return, UMG now will have access to Disney's extensive marketing entities (including ABC, Radio Disney, Disney Channel, ABC Radio etc.). Seoul Records, now Kakao M – South Korea 's biggest music distributor – formerly handled

1771-411: Is a composer interview series with the composer working in film, television and games and hosted by journalist Jon Burlingame. The first set dropped has four episodes interviewing Henry Jackman , Pinar Toprak and Alan Silvestri . A second set is slated for October 2019 and a third for early 2020. Originally, Disney Music Group did not have its own distribution network, either in its native market of

1848-664: Is themselves involved in the holding, production, distribution and sponsoring of concert events related to Disney. In November 2024, they announced the Worlds Collide Tour, an interactive live concert celebrating music from the Zombies and Descendants franchises. The North American tour begins on July 17, 2025. It will feature performances from Kylie Cantrall , Joshua Colley , Malia Baker and Dara Reneé from Descendants: The Rise of Red , and Freya Skye , Malachi Barton and Mekonnen Knife from Zombies 4: Dawn of

1925-816: The Buena Vista brand from the group's name. In November 2008, Disney Music Group formed the Disney Pearl label in conjunction with a multi-part deal with Yanni . Lyric Street launched a subsidiary label, Carolwood Records, in October 2008 which was soon shuttered in November 2009. On April 14, 2010, Disney Music Group announced the closure of the Lyric Street label with some bands transferred to other branches of Disney Music Group and others dropped altogether. On January 31, 2012, DMG chair Bob Cavallo retired with Ken Bunt succeeding him as head of DMG with

2002-813: The Jonas Brothers and Bridgit Mendler ) as artists into the mid-2010s, with several records that attained Platinum or Gold certifications. These artists' music careers proved the label to be successful. At the same time, the label continued to develop the careers of acts with a less mainstream profile such as Grace Potter & the Nocturnals , Breaking Benjamin or Plain White T's , but who had been successful in its own terms. The label also continued to release soundtracks from films and television shows, mainly those derived from Marvel Studios productions in conjunction with Marvel Music . In 2010, Hollywood absorbed

2079-491: The corporate secretary , then handled merchandising issues among other additional duties. With Roy Disney's split of the merchandising division from Walt Disney Productions, Johnson became head of the merchandising division's publication department in 1950 and took on managing business affairs for the Walt Disney Music Company. Raphael took the WDMC into creating original non-film music. WDMC had several successful songs outside of

2156-615: The publishing rights to music from Disney's film, television, theater and theme park divisions. Imprints include Walt Disney Music Company , Wonderland Music Company, Agarita Music, Bantha Music, Buena Vista Music Co., Falferious Music, Five Hundred South Songs, Fuzzy Muppet Songs, Holpic Music, Inc., Hollywood Pictures Music, Mad Muppet Melodies, Marvel Comics Music, Marvel Superheroes Music, Pixar Music, Pixar Talking Pictures, Seven Peaks Music, Seven Summits Music, Touchstone Pictures Music & Songs, Inc., Utapau Music, and Wampa-Tauntaun Music. Disney Concerts, formerly Buena Vista Concerts ,

2233-550: The "Disney" name; the inaugural release from the label was "Annette", the self-titled album featuring vocalist Annette Funicello. In November 1989, The Walt Disney Company founded Hollywood Records after acquiring the valuable Queen catalog. The Lyric Street Records label was founded in July 1997 as a division of Hollywood Records . In August 1997 Mammoth Records was purchased for $ 25 million to act as an independent music label within Disney. The industry recognized founding of

2310-573: The 2nd quarter of 2014. In February 2016, Disney Music Group, in collaboration with Philips Lighting, launched LightVibes. In January 2017, DMG acquired the distribution rights to the entire Star Wars music catalog from Sony Classical ; the soundtrack albums were then released by Walt Disney Records in digital formats the same day. Disney digitally remastered and reissued the original Star Wars soundtrack albums in physical formats on May 4, 2018. In early April 2017, DMG and Universal Music Group Nashville relaunched Buena Vista Records as

2387-574: The 90's. On April 14, 2009, Fastball released its fifth album, Little White Lies . The album was co-produced by Zuniga and experienced producer CJ Eiriksson, with mixing by Bob Clearmountain . Scalzo and Zuniga would work on separate solo projects in the following years, with Zuniga's solo album, These Ghosts Have Bones , being released in September 2011 and Scalzo releasing My Favorite Year in February 2013. Both were successfully funded with

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2464-751: The Bats, the Melvins, My Friend Steve, Seven Mary Three, Squirrel Nut Zippers, the Sidewinders, Vanilla Trainwreck, and Victoria Williams. In 2003, the label was folded into Hollywood Records . Touchstone Records was a record label formed as a joint venture between Buena Vista Records and Touchstone Pictures in 1986. It was folded into Hollywood Records in 1998. On Friday, August 23, 2019, Disney Music Group debuted their first podcast, For Scores , produced with Treefort Media and longtime Disney Music executive Maria Kleinman and kicked of at D23 . The podcast

2541-554: The Disney music catalog in the 1990s. The catalog was later acquired by S.M. Entertainment . ( Universal Music Korea currently handles the Disney music catalog in South Korea.) Fastball (band) Fastball is an American rock band. It was formed in Austin, Texas , in 1992. The band originally called themselves Magneto U.S.A., and changed their name after signing with Hollywood Records . In 1998, their album All

2618-467: The Disneyland label, which was licensed to Columbia Records . The Disneyland label issued its first album, A Child's Garden of Verses . Also, Disneyland Records issued Parker's "Wringle Wrangle" single from the " Westward Ho the Wagons! " film within a year of starting operations; the single became a hit. In 1959, Walt Disney Productions founded Buena Vista Records as a Disney-endorsed sub-brand without

2695-458: The Great , Netta, and Kenzie . The label also releases soundtrack albums and digital releases from Marvel Studios , 20th Century Studios , Searchlight Pictures , ABC , National Geographic , Hulu , 20th Television , FX , and ESPN since their acquisitions by The Walt Disney Company . Hollywood Records was founded in December 1989 by Michael Eisner , then CEO of The Walt Disney Company as

2772-728: The Pain Money Can Buy reached platinum sales within six months of its release, and stayed on the Billboard 200 chart for a year. Their songs " The Way " and " Out of My Head " reached #1 and #14 on Billboard ' s Adult Alternative Songs chart, respectively. In addition, the group has been nominated for two Grammy Awards – Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for "The Way", and Best Long Form Music Video for their promotional video "The Way". They also received five The Austin Chronicle awards: 1998's Album of

2849-760: The Scene , Nick Jonas & the Administration , Joe Jonas , Miley Cyrus , Sofia Carson , Jonas Brothers , Sabrina Carpenter , and the new addition Dixie D'Amelio directly signed to Universal Music UK's Fascination Records . There were reports in 2011 that Disney Music Group would start an independent US distribution arm for its label's releases, but as of February 2012, those plans have yet to be enacted. Universal Music Group acquired most of EMI in 2013 but pledged not to renew its European license with Disney; both sides eventually changed their minds. In March 2013, Disney Music Group and Universal Music Group announced

2926-565: The UK, Europe, South Africa and the Middle East replacing Warner Music Group . In November 2006, Disney Music Publishing and Warner/Chappell Music Inc. agreed to a licensing agreement for Europe and South America major markets. In 2006, BVMG launched a concert production arm, Buena Vista Concerts starting with The Cheetah Girls : The Party's Just Begun Tour and High School Musical : The Concert. In April 2007, Disney decided to semi-retire

3003-499: The US or internationally. It had a licensing deal with Warner Music Group from 1995 to 2005, and BMG in Europe and Australia . Furthermore, Sony Music Entertainment was also a distributor of Hollywood Records' releases in mainland Asia. After the agreement with Warner expired, Disney engaged in distribution negotiations with other third-party companies. In 2005, Disney relied mainly on Universal Music Group and EMI Music , given

3080-537: The Vampires . Buena Vista Records, a label founded in 1959 largely devoted to authentic soundtrack albums of mostly live-action Disney film musicals, such as Mary Poppins , The Happiest Millionaire , Summer Magic , and Babes in Toyland , as well as recordings by actors then under contract to Disney, such as Annette Funicello and Hayley Mills . Often, at the same time that Buena Vista Records released

3157-468: The Walt Disney Music Company (WDMC) was incorporated, with Fred Raphael putting the company together in late 1949 to publish and license songs from Cinderella . Cinderella records appeared in stores along with other merchandise in 1949 before the 1950 release of the movie. The original RCA 78 RPM multi-disc-album release was number 1 on the Billboard magazine pop charts and as a result, Disney Music

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3234-457: The Year, Best Video, Best Single/EP, Band of the Year, and 1995's Best Pop Band. In late 2021, Fastball started a Patreon campaign supporting the release of new music, as well as demos of their songs and the stories behind them. In 1992, Tony Scalzo , Miles Zuniga, and Joey Shuffield formed Fastball in Austin, Texas . Zuniga and Shuffield first played together in a band called Big Car. After

3311-517: The album with Latin guitar on "Love Is Expensive and Free." "Instead of tailoring the music for short attention spans, we tried to make an album that holds up well to extensive listening... kind of cinematic, where you notice new themes entering the frame each time you see the film," Zuniga said in the band's record company bio. Although The Harsh Light of Day sold fewer than 85,000 copies (compared to All The Pain Money Can Buy's 1,000,000+),

3388-408: The expansion of their relationship with a new commercial and creative agreement that enabled Hollywood Records' artists to collaborate with the roster of producers and songwriters that are part of Universal Music. Disney Music Group From the founding of The Walt Disney Company in 1923, music has been key to the success of the organization. Both public-domain and original music were used for

3465-487: The films, including Mule Train by Frankie Laine , " Would I Love You (Love You, Love You) " by Patti Page and " Shrimp Boats " by Jo Stafford , however for every non-film hit there were a score more that flopped. While Alice in Wonderland was a first run failure, its songs became evergreen for the music company with multiple stars performing the music. Raphael moved his office off lot to Hollywood and opened

3542-456: The first Queen album under Hollywood, Innuendo , was released. The deal's outlook as an important economic opportunity was immediately affected by the death of the band's lead singer Freddie Mercury , although the band's catalog sales managed to successfully generate nearly $ 94 million in revenue for Disney from 1991 to 1995. Bob Pfeifer was named president of the label in March 1995 after

3619-731: The first song from the Walt Disney Studios, for Mickey's Follies . On December 16, 1929, the Disney Film Recording Company, Limited was incorporated as a subsidiary of Walt Disney Productions . Saul Bourne at Irving Berlin Music approached the studio after seeing Three Little Pigs with interest in the publishing rights for its theme song, " Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? ". With Disney partnering with Bourne and Berlin, this partnership led to

3696-451: The graveyard shift at The Bagel Manufactory in Austin. He, Shuffield, and Zuniga would be on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O'Brien just four months later. Fastball's second album, All the Pain Money Can Buy , was released on Hollywood Records. Within just six months, it had sold more than a million copies. The single " The Way " stayed on top of Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart for seven weeks, and

3773-530: The group and Ken Bunt was appointed as president of the group. Several changes have been done under his tenure, including the retirement of long-time executives from the Cavallo's era like Abbey Konowitch, Justin Fontaine and Jhon Linda and the appointment of new A&R 's like Mio Vukovic and Mike Daly. In March 2013, Disney Music Group and Universal Music Group announced the expansion of their relationship with

3850-455: The group was in March 1998 with the reorganization in Disney that brought all Disney music labels into one unit, Buena Vista Music Group, in the Walt Disney Studios. The group consisted of Hollywood Records, Buena Vista Records , Lyric Street Records and Mammoth Records with Walt Disney Records and Disney Music Publishing transferred out of Disney Consumer Products . In September 2005, BVMG signed with EMI for distribution of its albums in

3927-480: The help of their respective Kickstarter campaigns. In April 2013, a new single titled "Love Comes in Waves" was released to digital outlets. The video premiered on YouTube on July 23, 2013. On February 5, 2015, the band began recording a new album at The Bubble recording studio in Austin. In March, the band announced that "Love Comes in Waves" would be featured on the band's forthcoming album Step Into Light , which

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4004-533: The initial cartoons, but, since neither Walt Disney nor Roy O. Disney had any music industry experience, the studio had to rely on outside music publishers. In 1928, Walt Disney released the first Mickey Mouse motion picture, Steamboat Willie , which became the first animated short-subject film with sound. Two other unreleased Mickey Mouse shorts had been previously produced and were subsequently given soundtracks prior to their eventual premieres. In 1929, Walt Disney and Carl Stalling wrote "Minnie's Yoo-Hoo",

4081-515: The label was Max & Harvey, a pair of UK twins, in April 2018. In June 2021, Steve Greenberg announced he would be relaunching his record label S-Curve Records under a new partnership with Disney Music Group. Artists with releases as a part of the partnership include Andy Grammer and Netta . Disney Pearl , also as Disney Pearl Series , was an imprint of Disney Music Group for adult contemporary and pop music launched in November 2008 with

4158-442: The label was primarily a soundtrack label for non-Disney branded releases from Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures , with few major artists, like Queen . The label now releases music from a roster of major artists such as: Breaking Benjamin , Sofia Carson , Olivia Holt and Shawn Hook . DMG Nashville , is the label used by Hollywood Records to specialize in country music . Patrick Joseph Music and DMG Nashville signed

4235-444: The music rights to the three films had failed. After Bambi , the effects of World War II reduced the production of new feature length animation, with Disney either making feature length live films with some animation or themed short film into anthology films like Make Mine Music . The latter films contain the bulk of the more commercial music which was done by recording stars thus released by their record company. In April 1947,

4312-408: The name Fastball in 1995. Zuniga told Entertainment Weekly that it was named after the band's favorite pornographic film , and said that "It really has no meaning behind it." Fastball quickly built a strong following in the Austin area, and created a regional buzz. As a result, a local journalist spotted them, and suggested that Hollywood Records check them out. They did, and Fastball soon signed

4389-518: The new deal. It was the first label to record DJ Shadow , releasing his "Lesson 4" (a reference to Double Dee and Steinski ) as the B-side of a 1991 single by Lifers Group , a hip hop group composed of prisoners at East Jersey State Prison in Rahway, New Jersey . It also released Shadow's Legitimate Mix on the B-side of a single by the group Zimbabwe Legit in 1992. Arguably the most high-profile release

4466-493: The other was Best Long Form Video for "The Way". They also received an MTV Award nomination for Best New Artist. The group headed back into the studio to record their third album, The Harsh Light of Day . Produced by Julian Raymond and Fastball, the album was released in September 2000. The release included " You're an Ocean ", which featured the piano stylings of Billy Preston (who previously collaborated with The Beatles). Singer-guitarist Brian Setzer also contributed to

4543-461: The release of Fantasia . In 1943, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated Walt Disney Productions for two Academy Award categories in recognition of Bambi ; Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture and Music, Best Song for its song, "Love is a Song". In addition to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , Disney also sold the music publishing rights to Pinocchio and Dumbo to Bourne. To date, all attempts to reacquire

4620-432: The remaining operations of country music label Lyric Street Records, which became an imprint for the catalog of the defunct-label, currently managed by Hollywood. Later that same year, Queen left EMI Records for Universal Music -owned Island Records , with Hollywood continuing to remain the group's North American music distributor. In January 2012, after 14 years of a successful tenure, Bob Cavallo retired as chairman of

4697-478: The show's music back to Disney, leading to the creation of the Disneyland Records label in 1956. The Walt Disney Company traces the Disney Music Group back to the founding of Disneyland Records on February 4, 1956. In that year, the Walt Disney Music Company's Disneyland Records record company was founded on the strength of Fess Parker 's 1954 hit recording of the " Ballad of Davy Crockett " using

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4774-523: The song being recorded twice by the Don Bestor Orchestra (released by Victor Records ) and Bill Scotti Orchestra (released by Bluebird Records ). The song was a hit and a Depression era anthem . Walt Disney Productions then began licensing out its music with the record company either selecting its own or Disney's talent to record the music. Until 1936, no one had issued an actual song track recording on disc. RCA 's HMV label released

4851-513: The studio also released new soundtrack LP's of some of the animated Disney films, including, a 3-LP album set in monophonic sound of all of the classical music heard in Fantasia , perhaps the first soundtrack album containing virtually all the music from a feature-length film. (The "Meet the Soundtrack" intermission segment and the jam session were not included, and Deems Taylor 's commentary

4928-972: The territory. UMG's Universal Music Distribution was responsible for distribution in the United States , Canada , India and other territories across North America , South America , Asia and Japan . Meanwhile, EMI conducted distribution in the United Kingdom , Republic of Ireland , Australia , New Zealand and several other territories across Europe , Africa and the Middle East . In both agreements, Disney handled its own marketing and other similar functions. In September 2012, Universal Music Group acquired EMI and initially pledged not to renew EMI's European distribution license with Disney. However, in March 2013, Disney Music Group renegotiated their agreement with Universal Music Group, in which distribution and marketing rights were expanded on

5005-459: The top ten on Billboard's Top 40 chart and was a top ten hit on the Adult Top 40 chart for 29 weeks. The album's promotional tour featured Marcy Playground and Everclear , after which Fastball moved to the H.O.R.D.E. tour . In 1999, Fastball received two Grammy Award nominations as a result of All the Pain Money Can Buy . One was for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, and

5082-444: The trio didn't lose steam and chalked it up to lacking a musical category to fit into. "You can't write down what we do in a sentence" Zuniga told Mac Randall at Launch.com . "Marketing us is a problem. But in a way, that's our saving grace also, because you can't find an easy angle to summarize us and exploit us. We might sell more records if you could, but at the same time, it forces people that really want to be interested in us to pay

5159-454: Was a top-five hit on Billboard's Top 40 Mainstream chart. Scalzo was inspired to write the song in 1997 after reading a news article about Lela and Raymond Howard, an elderly couple who had disappeared in Texas. Though Lela had Alzheimer's and Raymond was recovering from brain surgery, the couple had been driving to a local festival. They were discovered two weeks later, dead, at the bottom of

5236-839: Was also omitted.) Disneyland Records released cover versions (rather than soundtracks) of the songs from some of the other animated films, such as Lady and the Tramp . In 1989, the label was renamed to its current branding and now releases a broad range of Disney-branded music, such as soundtracks to films from Walt Disney Pictures , Walt Disney Animation Studios , Pixar , and Lucasfilm , original studio albums from Disney Channel artists, and compilations albums by Radio Disney . Hollywood Records , primarily focuses on pop, rock, alternative and country genres, as well as film soundtracks from Marvel Studios , 20th Century Studios , Searchlight Pictures , and Hulu , as well as 20th Television 's television series and Disney's cable networks. Originally,

5313-489: Was appointed as chairman of the group, and president of Hollywood Records. This movement looked to organize the music operations of the company under a more integrated direction. In 1998, Hollywood Records had its first major success in seven years with Fastball 's second album, All the Pain Money Can Buy , whose accompanying hit single " The Way " helped the label return to mainstream prominence. Five years later, in 2002, Metamorphosis , Hilary Duff 's studio debut album,

5390-676: Was distributed in the United States and Canada by Elektra Records , at the time owned by Disney rival Time Warner . Distribution in North America switched to PolyGram (acquired by Universal Music Group ) in 1995 (partnered with A&M in Canada until PolyGram's acquisition by Universal Music in 1999). Today, Universal Music Group markets and distributes Hollywood Records catalog worldwide. Also, several Hollywood artists including Demi Lovato , Bridgit Mendler , Selena Gomez &

5467-548: Was due to be BASIC Queen Bootlegs , a 10-track collection of hip-hop remixes and reinterpretations of tracks by the rock band Queen and featuring roster names plus guests such as Ice Cube . Although the BASIC Beats Sampler confirmed its release date for April 1992, the album was not commercially released although it has since leaked online. Other notable releases came from Organized Konfusion ; its challenging second album, Stress: The Extinction Agenda (1994),

5544-460: Was moving rapidly into the Big Business category. While WDMC did not produce the records, Raphael did handle the selection, performance and recording. James Alexander "Jimmy" Johnson, Jr., a fired Disney publicity staff member who wanted to stay at Disney, moved through a series of jobs there in the traffic department, and then accounting. After a stint in the military, he became assistant to

5621-462: Was relaunched as a country music label in April 2017, as a joint venture between DMG and Universal Music Group Nashville . The label's first signed act was the brotherly music duo, CB30 , whose track "Marina" has a Luke Bryan appearance. RMI Recordings, a new label formed in June 2017 to sign "digital-first" talent. It was formed with the founders of DigiTour Media , which produces live events with social media artists. The first talent signed to

5698-585: Was released and became a success to the label, selling over three million copies in the United States. The launch of Duff's career represented a new business model for the record, utilizing the synergies around the company, including important outlets like Disney Channel , Radio Disney , ABC Family and ABC . Duff's albums released under Hollywood proved to be equally successful including Duff's self-titled sophomore album and 2005's Most Wanted . Duff's success led to Hollywood utilizing talent from Disney Channel (such as Miley Cyrus , Demi Lovato , Selena Gomez ,

5775-423: Was released on May 19. A video for a second song from the album, "I Will Never Let You Down", was released in early March 2017. In mid-September 2017, the band played a living room concert at the home of Los Angeles–based comic Chet Wild following a nearly year-long Twitter campaign (#FastballAtChets). The concert raised $ 12,500 via Indiegogo to assist with Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. Several attendees at

5852-494: Was the first president of the label, until his resignation in 1993 because of the division's lackluster sales. After failing to sign new artists such as Nirvana , The Smashing Pumpkins , Naughty by Nature , Cypress Hill and Dr. Dre , the label experienced its first major success in February 1990, when it acquired the North American distribution rights to Queen 's entire catalog for $ 10 million. The following year,

5929-508: Was widely acclaimed. The label was also home of Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf , although, following the shooting death of Charizma in 1993, the music the duo recorded for the label was not released. This would later inspire Peanut Butter Wolf to found Stones Throw Records in order to make this music available. Acts on Hollywood BASIC's roster included Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf , Lifers' Group, Organized Konfusion , Raw Fusion , Hi-C, and Zimbabwe Legit. Upon its 1989 launch, Hollywood

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