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Casablanca Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group and operated under Republic Records. Under its founder Neil Bogart, Casablanca was most successful during the disco era of the mid to late 1970s. The label currently focuses on dance and electronic music under the direction of Brett Alperowitz.
Neil E. Bogart (born Neil Scott Bogatz, [1] February 3, 1943 – May 8, 1982) was an American record executive. He was the founder of Casablanca Records, which later became Casablanca Record and Filmworks. [2] [3]
Cecil Holmes (born July 29, 1937) is an American record executive who was a co-founder of Casablanca Records and a founder of Chocolate City Records. [1] Born in New York, New York, Holmes began his career in the music businesses as a member of a Brooklyn "doo-wop" group in the early 1950s before transitioning to record promotion with Colpix Records, a division of Columbia Pictures.
Harris quit Casablanca on July 23, 1979. Overall, Harris worked for Casablanca from August 1973 until July 1979, rising to become the company's senior vice-president and then managing director in 1976. [2] [9] After leaving Casablanca Records in 1979, Harris landed in Seattle where he owned and operated the Seattle Improv for a number of years ...
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Peaches Records & Tapes, Inc., was a Los Angeles-based national retail chain of record superstores, some as large as 15,000 square feet. The chain became a subsidiary of the Nehi Record Distributing Corporation. Tom Heiman (né Thomas Michael Heiman; born 1941) [1] founded Peaches in 1963 and went on to become president of Nehi. At its peak ...
Chocolate City Records was a record label subsidiary of Casablanca Record and FilmWorks.It was started in 1975 by Cecil Holmes, Neil Bogart's partner at Casablanca. In 1980 the label was sold to PolyGram along with Casablanca, which are now part of Universal Music Group; in 1983 Chocolate City Records went out of business and Cecil Holmes left Casablanca Records & Filmworks and went on to be ...
Boardwalk Records was relaunched as part of The Boardwalk Entertainment Group in 2010 by Neil Bogart's sons, Evan Kidd Bogart and Timothy Bogart, and their partner, Gary A. Randall. Boardwalk's current roster includes ZZ Ward , [ 5 ] Wallpaper. , [ 6 ] and Nova Rockafeller [ 7 ] In October 2019, Boardwalk sold the Ricky Reed catalogue to Anthem ...