Warner Bros. Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1958 as the recorded music division of the American film studio Warner Bros.
The Residents have had a number of dealings with Warner Bros. Records over the length of their history, beginning when they submitted two demo tapes, The W***** B*** Album and B.S., to executive Hal Halverstadt in 1971.
The group would eventually release their serial drama The River of Crime through subsidiary label Cordless Recordings in 2006.
History with The Residents[]
In 1971 the group that would become The Residents submitted two demo tapes, The Warner Bros. Album and Baby Sex, to Warner Bros. Records director of merchandising Hal Halverstadt, who politely rejected the group's confrontational but earnest efforts (inadvertantly inspiring the group's name in the process).
Halverstadt would maintain correspondence with The Residents on an occasional basis even after losing his job in an "industry-wide purge" in the mid-1970s.[1]
Warner Bros. Records eventually would publish music by The Residents and various other Ralph Records artists in the UK between 1981 and 1985, and also published Tweedles! in the UK in 2006. The Residents briefly became part of the Warner Bros. roster in that year, when they released their serial drama The River of Crime on subsidiary label Cordless Recordings.
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| Artist | Release | Year | Catalogue | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snakefinger | Chewing Hides The Sound | 1981 | LINK16 | "The Vultures Of Bombay" Published By |
| The Residents | Intermission | 1983 | RALPH1 | UK Publishing |
| The Residents | Ralph Before '84: Volume I | 1984 | KODE10 | UK Publishing |
| Ralph Before '84: Volume II | 1984 | KODE12 | UK Publising on various tracks | |
| The Residents | George & James | 1984 | RZ-8402 | UK Publishing |
| The Residents | PAL TV LP | 1985 | DVR17 | UK Publishing |
| Ritual: Magnetic North | 1985 | T5 | UK Publishing on Residents tracks | |
| The Residents | The King & Eye | 1989 | 773547-2 | Publishing on "Stuck On You" |
| Primus | Miscellaneous Debris | 1992 | 96208-2 | Manufactured and distributed |
| Primus | Wynona's Big Brown Beaver | 1995 | 6544957762 | Distributed and Manufactured By |
| Circuit (5) - This Is Music DVD - All You Can Eat | 2000 | 36945 | DVD that features The Residents | |
| The Residents | Tweedles | 2006 | CDSTUMM282 | UK Publishing |
| The Residents | 80 Aching Orphans | 2017 | NRTBOX1 | Publishing on various tracks |
| The Residents | Commercial Album | 2019 | NRT009 | Publishing on "We're A Happy Family" |
| The Residents | Dreaming Of An Eyeball Beaming | 2019 | SR16 | UK Publishing |
See also[]
- The W***** B*** Album
- Hal Halverstadt
- Cordless Recordings
External links and references[]
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The W***** B*** Album (recorded 1971, released 2018) Side A |