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Beserkley Records, the Glossary

Beserkley Records was an American independent record label based in Berkeley, California, from 1973 to 1984.^[1]

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1984 disestablishments in California
Record labels disestablished in 1984
Record labels established in 1973

A&M Records

A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States.

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BMG Rights Management

BMG Rights Management GmbH (also known simply as BMG) is an international music company based in Berlin, Germany.

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Castle Communications

Castle Communications, also known as Castle Music, was a British independent record label and home video distributor founded in 1983 by Terry Shand, Cliff Dane, and Jon Beecher.

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Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies

Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies is a music reference book by American music journalist and essayist Robert Christgau.

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Colin Larkin

Colin Larkin (born 1949) is a British music writer.

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Compilation album

A compilation album comprises tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one performer or by several performers.

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Earth Quake is an American power pop band, formed in the San Francisco area in 1966, who released several albums in the 1970s, mostly on Beserkley Records, a company which they were involved in setting up.

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Elektra Records

Elektra Records (or Elektra Entertainment) is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt.

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Friday on My Mind

"Friday on My Mind" is a 1966 song by Australian rock group The Easybeats.

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Greg Kihn

Gregory Stanley Kihn (born July 10, 1949) is an American rock musician, radio personality, and novelist.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Hillman Curtis

David Hillman Curtis (February 24, 1961 – April 18, 2012) was an American new media designer, author, musician and filmmaker.

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I Think We're Alone Now

"I Think We're Alone Now" is a song written and composed by Ritchie Cordell that was first recorded by Tommy James and the Shondells.

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Independent record label

An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding or distribution of major record labels; they are a type of small- to medium-sized enterprise, or SME.

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Jeopardy (song)

"Jeopardy" is a song released by the Greg Kihn Band, from their 1983 album Kihnspiracy.

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John Cale

John Davies Cale (born 9 March 1942) is a Welsh musician, composer, and record producer who was a founding member of the American rock band the Velvet Underground.

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Jonathan Richman

Jonathan Michael Richman (born May 16, 1951) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Kenny Laguna

Kenneth Benjamin Laguna is an American songwriter, record producer, and musician, best known for his work with Joan Jett.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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Lists of record labels

File:Alvinoreyguitarboogie.jpg File:AmMusicBunk78.jpg File:Bingola1011b.jpg Lists of record labels cover record labels, brands or trademarks associated with marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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Matthew King Kaufman

Matthew "King" Kaufman (born May 19, 1946) is an American record producer who was the owner of leading independent label Beserkley Records in Berkeley, California from the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s, successfully producing records by Jonathan Richman, Greg Kihn and others.

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Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968

Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era is a compilation album of American psychedelic and garage rock singles that were released during the mid-to-late 1960s.

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Oldies

Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music, broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock, from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music.

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Playboy Records

Playboy Records was an American record label, based in Los Angeles, California, and a unit of Playboy Enterprises.

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Power pop

Power pop (also typeset as powerpop) is a subgenre of rock music and form of pop rock based on the early music of bands such as the Who, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Byrds.

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Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment Company (formerly Rhino Records Inc.) is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978.

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Roadrunner (Jonathan Richman song)

"Roadrunner" is a song written by Jonathan Richman and recorded in various versions by Richman and his band, in most cases credited as the Modern Lovers.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Sanctuary Records

Sanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and is, as of 2013, a subsidiary of BMG Rights Management solely for reissues.

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Sean Tyla

Sean Tyla (born John Michael Kenneth Tyler, 3 August 1946 – 17 May 2020) was an English rock guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist and songwriter, sometimes known as the "Godfather of Boogie".

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The Easybeats

The Easybeats were an Australian rock band which formed in Sydney in late 1964.

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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music is an encyclopedia created in 1989 by Colin Larkin.

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The Getaway (1972 film)

The Getaway is a 1972 American action thriller film based on the 1958 novel by Jim Thompson.

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The Greg Kihn Band

The Greg Kihn Band is an American band that was started by frontman Greg Kihn and bassist Steve Wright.

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The Modern Lovers

The Modern Lovers were an American rock band led by Jonathan Richman in the 1970s and 1980s.

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The Modern Lovers (album)

The Modern Lovers is the debut studio album by American rock band the Modern Lovers.

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The Rubinoos

The Rubinoos are an American power pop band that formed in 1970 in Berkeley, California.

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The Smirks

The Smirks were an English new wave band from Manchester who played from the late 1970s to the early 1980s.

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Ticknor and Fields

Ticknor and Fields was an American publishing company based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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UK singles chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Warner Records

Warner Records Inc. (formerly known as Warner Bros. Records Inc. until 2019) is an American record label.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beserkley_Records

Also known as Beserkley.

Beserkley Records, the Glossary

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See also

1984 disestablishments in California

Record labels disestablished in 1984

Record labels established in 1973

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