37-412: Lost Highway may refer to: Music [ edit ] Lost Highway Records , a country music record label now part of Universal Music Group Nashville Albums and EPs [ edit ] Lost Highway , a 2002 EP by Helldorado Lost Highway (Bon Jovi album) , 2007 Lost Highway: The Concert , 2007 Lost Highway (Willie Nelson album) ,
74-399: A country music label, based out of Nashville . The label also issues music by alternative rock and alternative country artists such as Morrissey and Ryan Adams . The company's name was inspired by a Leon Payne song made famous by Hank Williams . Today the label operates as an imprint of Island Records , formerly a division of The Island Def Jam Music Group . Lost Highway released
111-584: A 2003 opera adaptation of Lynch's film Hank Williams: Lost Highway (musical) , a stage musical based on the life of Hank Williams Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Lost Highway . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lost_Highway&oldid=1225040922 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
148-453: A 2009 compilation album Songs [ edit ] "Lost Highway" (Leon Payne song) , 1948, covered by Hank Williams "Lost Highway" (Angry Samoans song) , 1988 "Lost Highway" (Bon Jovi song) , 2007 Other uses [ edit ] Lost Highway (film) , a 1997 film by David Lynch Lost Highway (soundtrack) , the soundtrack for the Lynch film Lost Highway (opera) ,
185-768: A joint venture between Mercury and "Pappy" Daily's established country music record label Starday Records in January 1957. In July 1958, the Mercury/Starday joint venture was dissolved, and Starday record producer Shelby Singleton stayed on with Mercury in Nashville, becoming head of Mercury's Nashville office by 1961. Singleton left Mercury in 1966 to form his own company which bought Sun Records in 1969. In 1986, American country music singer and songwriter Johnny Cash , after being dropped by Columbia Nashville , signed with Mercury Nashville. His first album for
222-559: A variety of musical genres, but used the same set of catalog numbers. The label also offered a modest catalog of classical recordings beginning in 1951; among them was catalog number E3711, an account of two sonatas by Franz Schubert , billed as the first in a complete cycle, recorded by pianist Beveridge Webster . In 1962, MGM Records picked up American distribution of the prestigious German classical music label Deutsche Grammophon Records . The arrangement lasted until 1969 when Polydor Records established its American office. MGM Records
259-606: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Lost Highway Records Universal Music Group Nashville is Universal Music Group 's country music subsidiary. It was officially opened on New Year's Day 1945 as MCA Nashville and Mercury Nashville which on New Year's Day 1950 as Capitol Nashville . Some of the labels in this group include MCA Nashville Records , Mercury Nashville Records , Lost Highway Records , Capitol Records Nashville and EMI Records Nashville . UMG Nashville not only handles these imprints, but also manages
296-507: Is now released by Decca Broadway , and the country music catalog is managed by Universal Music Group Nashville with reissues bearing the Mercury Records Nashville imprint. MGM's film soundtracks are owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment via its WaterTower Music unit and the catalogs of a few other artists also have new owners. Frank Zappa regained control of his MGM/Verve recordings (including those with his group
333-479: The electrical transcriptions used to distribute the shows to local stations. The record manufacturing division was closed when MGM Records was sold to PolyGram ; after which MGM's former competitors began manufacturing records issued by MGM. In the early 1950s, MGM Records was considered one of the "major" record companies (besides Columbia , RCA Victor , Decca / Coral , Capitol and Mercury ) due to owning its own manufacturing facilities. Subsidiary Cub Records
370-562: The 1990s, MCA Nashville briefly revived the Decca label for country music releases, but closed the label after Universal Music absorbed PolyGram and chose to reserve the Decca name for classical music releases. While Decca resumed issuing country music in February 2008, the current Decca country music department has no connection with UMG Nashville. However, MCA Nashville continues to reissue past country releases from Decca, as well as those on
407-813: The Cameo-Parkway catalog and renamed the label ABKCO . Another label distributed by MGM was American International Records , the record label division of American International Pictures , whose film library is now owned by MGM. MGM Records' first president Frank Walker discovered and signed Hank Williams who became the linchpin of MGM Records' country music operations. Other notable MGM artists of this genre include Hank Williams Jr. , Sheb Wooley , Conway Twitty , Sandy Posey , Marvin Rainwater , Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith , Roy Acuff , Carolina Cotton , Jimmy Newman , Mel Tillis , Marie Osmond , Jim Stafford and C.W. McCall . MGM Records issued music of
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#1732780415988444-622: The Kapp label. With the absorption of MCA Records into Geffen Records in 2003, and in 2021 where UMG legally changed the name for its Philippine division , MCA Nashville is now the only unit of UMG to still use the MCA name. It is now distributed by Decca and Interscope Records . The still active Mercury Records was formed in Chicago in 1945 issuing recordings in a variety of genres including country music. The Nashville office of Mercury began as
481-577: The MGM Records trademark, MGM was able to reclaim its rights to that trademark in 1997. The MGM Records catalog is now split. Although the first three entities remain under the aegis of Universal Music Group , the pop music catalog is managed by Universal Music Enterprises and bears the Polydor imprint, with distribution in North America by Republic Records , the musical theater catalog
518-675: The MGM soundtracks. MGM operated their own record manufacturing plant at Bloomfield, New Jersey, from 1947 until 1972; pressing not only their own records but a great deal of sub-contract work for other record companies, including Atlantic Records . For several years in the late 1940s-early 1950s, MGM operated a radio syndication business, producing The MGM Theater of the Air and a variety of other series based on inactive movie properties such as Dr. Kildare , Andy Hardy , Maisie , and Crime Does Not Pay . The MGM record pressing plant also manufactured
555-567: The Mothers of Invention ) in mid 1977 after two years of negotiations. Zappa later licensed the recordings to Rykodisc , starting in 1987. In 2012, Gail Zappa licensed her deceased husband's catalogue to Universal Music Enterprises . In 1986, MGM formed MGM Music for the licensing of music of which MGM owns the rights. It focuses on licensing soundtracks. It manages the music and music publishing rights of MGM films from 1986 and beyond. ( Warner Bros. Discovery 's Turner Entertainment unit owns
592-523: The US dormant until recently, but still active internationally. The consolidations in Nashville that created UMG Nashville kept the Mercury Nashville imprint active. Most reissues of country music recordings first issued on the MGM, Polydor , and other former PolyGram labels bear the Mercury Nashville imprint. Lost Highway Records was formed by Luke Lewis in 2000. Lost Highway Records operates as
629-576: The West Was Won , the 1967 simulated-stereo 70mm re-release of Gone With the Wind , and 2001: A Space Odyssey . The Ben-Hur and King of Kings albums were studio recreations of the scores, but done with the original orchestrations, while How the West Was Won , Gone With the Wind , 2001 , and Doctor Zhivago albums were the genuine soundtracks. MGM Records also released a second soundtrack album of Quo Vadis , this one containing only music from
666-553: The country music catalogues of record labels Universal Music and predecessor companies acquired over the years including ABC Records , Decca Records , Dot Records , DreamWorks Records , Kapp Records , MGM Records and Polydor Records . Capitol Records Nashville is a major United States–based record label located in Nashville Tennessee operating as part of the Capitol Music Group. Capitol Nashville
703-488: The country music division of Decca Records in 1945, founded by Paul Cohen in New York. In 1947, Cohen hired Owen Bradley as his assistant working in Nashville. The country music division moved to Nashville in 1955 as much of the country music recording business was locating there. Bradley succeeded Cohen as head of Decca's Nashville division in 1958 and developed Decca into a country music powerhouse. Decca Nashville
740-411: The film Two Weeks With Love , became the first soundtrack single to become a national hit, selling a million copies and charting at No. 3. By 1950, magnetic tape had been perfected for recording use. This markedly improved the sound quality on long play (LP) albums from 1951 forward. MGM Records also issued albums of film scores, including Ben-Hur , King of Kings , Doctor Zhivago , How
777-450: The film. Beginning in the 1990s, authentic soundtrack albums of the musical scores to Ben-Hur and King of Kings became available. The Rhino Records editions of these albums featured literally the entire scores, including outtakes. Rhino also released a full-length two-disc album of the score of Gone with the Wind , recorded from the soundtrack in the original mono. As in the case of the non-musical films, Rhino Records, which obtained
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#1732780415988814-618: The films Good News (the 1947 version), Easter Parade , Annie Get Your Gun , Singin' in the Rain , Show Boat (the 1951 version), The Band Wagon , Seven Brides for Seven Brothers , and Gigi . When the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz was first shown on television in 1956 (by CBS), the label issued a soundtrack album of songs and dialog excerpts recorded directly from the film, as they had done with their LP of music and dialog from Quo Vadis in 1951. Aba Daba Honeymoon , performed by Debbie Reynolds and Carleton Carpenter in
851-453: The highly successful soundtrack album of a film made by another studio, Columbia Pictures 's Born Free (1966). There was also a short-lived Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Records of 1928, which produced recordings of music featured in MGM movies, not sold to the general public but made to be played in movie theater lobbies. These Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer records were manufactured under contract with the studio by Columbia Records . Their first soundtrack
888-472: The label was Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town , and Cash made several albums from 1987 to 1991 with Mercury Nashville. In 1997, PolyGram , which owned Mercury, consolidated all its Nashville operations under the Mercury name. When PolyGram was purchased by MCA (now Universal Music) in 1999, the resulting record label consolidations left Mercury under The Island Def Jam Music Group umbrella, making Mercury in
925-466: The latter bought and subsequently broke up EMI. EMI Records Nashville was formed in 2010 and served as a sister label to Capitol Records Nashville. Its flagship artist was Troy Olsen . Other artists signed to EMI include Eric Church and Alan Jackson (in a shared agreement with his own ACR Records). Universal Music Group acquired EMI in 2013. EMI is currently a part of UMG along with sister label Capitol Records Nashville . MCA Nashville started out as
962-440: The purpose of releasing soundtrack recordings (later LP albums ) of their musical films. It transitioned into a pop music label that continued into the 1970s. The company also released soundtrack albums of the music for some of their non-musical films as well, and on rare occasions, cast albums of off-Broadway musicals such as The Fantasticks and the 1954 revival of The Threepenny Opera . In one instance, MGM Records released
999-418: The rights to the MGM soundtracks (owned by Turner Entertainment Co. ) in the 1990s, issued longer versions of their movie musical albums, containing virtually all of the songs and music. Rhino's license expired at the end of 2011 and the albums Rhino issued were deleted. Warner Bros. now owns the MGM soundtracks first issued by MGM Records and Warner Bros.' WaterTower Music unit now has the rights to release
1036-683: The rock and roll era with many hit records by Connie Francis , Herman's Hermits , the Animals , the Cowsills , Lou Christie , the Osmonds , and Cub -subsidiary singer Jimmy Jones , whose hits were on MGM in the UK. Pre-rock pop singer Joni James and country singer Conway Twitty also scored hits on the rock and roll charts. James' "There Goes My Heart" in 1958 was promoted as the first 45 rpm record to be released in stereophonic sound. Although it
1073-555: The soundtracks of O Brother, Where Art Thou? Deadwood , and Open Season by Paul Westerberg . It has also acted as distributor for albums from Johnny Cash and Hank Williams . Formed in April 2017, Buena Vista Records is a partnership between Disney Music Group and Universal Music Group Nashville. MGM Records MGM Records was a record label founded by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946 for
1110-414: The style of Decca 's Broadway show cast albums. They also coined the phrase "recorded directly from the soundtrack". Over the years the term "soundtrack" began to be commonly applied to any recording from a film, whether taken from the actual film soundtrack or re-recorded. The phrase is also sometimes incorrectly used for Broadway cast recordings. Among MGM's most successful soundtrack albums were those of
1147-599: Was before tape existed, so the record producer needed to copy segments from the playback discs used on set, then copy and re-copy them from one disc to another, adding transitions and cross-fades until the final master was created. Needless to say, it was several generations removed from the original and the sound quality suffered. Also, the playback recordings were purposely recorded very "dry" (without reverberation) otherwise it would come across as too hollow sounding in large movie theaters. This made these albums sound flat and boxy. MGM Records called these "original cast albums" in
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1184-730: Was formerly known as Liberty Records from 1991 until 1995 when it was changed back to Capitol. In 1993 Liberty opened a sister label, Patriot Records, but it was closed in 1995. In 1999 EMI launched Virgin Records Nashville but by 2001 Capitol absorbed the short-lived label. Capitol Nashville remained a stand-alone label until 2010 when it launched EMI Nashville. Capitol Nashville is also home to several successful comedy artists who remain on its roster today. On March 23, 2011, Alan Jackson signed with Capitol's EMI Nashville division in conjunction with his own ACR Records label. In 2013, Capitol Records Nashville became part of Universal Music after
1221-515: Was launched in the late 1950s and Verve Records (predominately a Jazz label) was acquired from Norman Granz in December 1960. Other MGM subsidiaries and distributed labels included: Kama Sutra (from 1965 until Kama Sutra's sister label Buddah Records took over distribution in 1969), Ava, Heritage, Lion and Metro (for budget albums ), Leo (children's records), Hickory , MGM South, Pride, CoBurt, L&R, and Lionel. MGM moved successfully into
1258-506: Was of Till the Clouds Roll By , a 1946 film based on the life of composer Jerome Kern . It was the first soundtrack album of a live-action film originally issued as a set of four 10-inch 78-rpm records. As in many early MGM soundtrack albums, only eight selections from the film were included on the original version of the album. In order to fit the songs onto the record sides the musical material needed editing and manipulation. This
1295-468: Was renamed MCA Nashville in 1973 . In 1979, MCA Nashville absorbed the country music roster (including Roy Clark , Barbara Mandrell and The Oak Ridge Boys ) and back catalogue of ABC Records including the Dot Records catalogue. In the early 1980s, MCA Nashville signed Reba McEntire and George Strait , two of the greatest selling artists of all time and the mega stars on the record label. In
1332-414: Was sold to PolyGram in 1972. As part of the deal, PolyGram received perpetual rights to the "MGM Records" name and a ten-year license to use the MGM trademark and logo. In 1976, MGM Records, including its artists, was absorbed into PolyGram's Polydor Records . However, PolyGram continued releasing MGM soundtrack albums and reissues using the MGM Records imprint until 1982. With PolyGram's abandonment of
1369-724: Was the first stereo single to come out of the major record companies, edging out the RCA Victor release of Perry Como 's " Love Makes the World Go 'Round " by mere days, the single was issued in September 1958, while the first overall 45 rpm records to be released in stereophonic sound were issued by Bel Canto Records in June 1958. MGM also distributed Cameo-Parkway Records briefly in 1967. Four albums and two singles were released under this arrangement before Allen Klein bought
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