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| | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum : Hall of Fame : Inductee Detail |
 | | One of the finest record men of the rock and roll era, Ostin was lured from Verve Records by Frank Sinatra to run his Reprise label. | | | For three decades, Mo Ostin helped steer the Warner-Reprise record labels through a remarkable period of commercial prosperity and musical excellence. | | | Under OstinÂ’s leadership, Warner Bros. and its affiliated labels, including Reprise Records, launched or furthered the careers of such visionary artists as Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Van Morrison, the Grateful Dead, Frank Zappa, Fleetwood Mac, James Taylor, Randy Newman, Jimi Hendrix, the Kinks, Ry Cooder, and Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band. |
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| | WireImage: Listings |
| | Mo Ostin at the podium with Neil Young, Lorne Michaels and Paul Simon |
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| | Beatles CD's - Mo's Songs |
| | Shown is the promotional 6-CD mini album set produced by the artists and staff of Warner Brothers Records and presented to Mo Ostin at his retirement party in December 1994. | | | Superiorly crafted in a custom photo-album style bound packaging, track one of the first disc is George's 5-minute tribute song "Mo". | | | CDs include songs by George Harrison, John Lennon, The Travelling Wilbury's, REM, Madonna, Neil Young, Rod Stewart, Tiny Tim, Grateful Dead, Prince and many others. |
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| | 97.1 ZHT - #1 for Today's Hit Music |
| | Ostin and Sinatra guided the label to success through signings such as Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr., but when Warner Records acquired the label in 1963 Ostin was free to branch out beyond the "crooner" scene and take his first forays into signing rock acts. | | | Ostin flourished at the label displaying a tenacity when dealing with reticent distributors and taking on other duties such as administration and A&R. When a disgruntled Frank Sinatra left Capitol in 1960 to form his own label, Reprise, the singer plucked Ostin from Verve and appointed him administrative vice-president of Reprise. | | | Sign up to be a ZHT VIP now and gain access to exclusive benefits that are not available to other listeners!!! |
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| | Three musicians to join Hall Lawrence.com |
| | Ostin oversaw the careers of such Warner Bros. acts as Jimi Hendrix and Frank Sinatra. | | | CramerâÂÂs signature sound was part of Nashville records made by Presley, Roy Orbison, the Everly Brothers, Patsy Cline and others. | | | Douglas, who died in 1993, was a member of the Los Angeles-based âÂÂWrecking Crewâ group of studio musicians that played on hundreds of hits by artists including Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, the Beach Boys, Sam Cooke and John Lennon. |
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| | Jimmy Fallon Branches Out! |
| | Mo Ostin has worked with the likes of Frank Sinatra and George Harrison, among countless others, so the only logical step up would be to work with you. | | | Some people at DreamWorks saw that and said, “Oh man, this guy is going to make a record.” So they called my manager and they set this whole thing up with Mo Ostin, who has worked with Lorne Michaels before. | | | We all just gelled and ended up sounding like a decent band. |
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http://teentvmovies.about.com/library/weekly/aa082202a.htm
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| | MusicThoughts: Mark Mothersbaugh quote: I remember going to visit [Warner Bros. head] Mo Ostin about six to ... |
| | They were paying us less money for an audio cassette, but there were articles in all the papers about how much cheaper it was to make an audio cassette than it was to press vinyl. | | | Before that, people were just buying vinyl, but then audio cassettes were becoming the most sought-after item. | | | Why is it that, in our deal, you have it so you're paying us substantially less money for every audio cassette that you sell than for every piece of vinyl, yet you make a bigger profit off every audio cassette?" He just smiled and looked at me like I was his dense, naïve son. |
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http://www.musicthoughts.com/t/895
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| | Encyclopedia4U - Van Halen - Encyclopedia Article |
| | Their debut, self-titled album was released in 1978 and featured a new soloing technique called tapping : a technique utilizing both left and right hands on the guitar neck. | | | Gene Simmons of Kiss caught the band's show in Los Angeles in 1976, and financed a demo tape, but Kiss' management passed on signing the band, and the tape did not lead to a record contract because of the band's ignorance. | | | The band was eventually signed by a Warner Brothers executive, Mo Ostin, and their first producer Ted Templeman after a show at the famed Starwood Club in Los Angeles, California. |
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http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/v/van-halen.html
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| | Armchair Theatre |
| | Craig Fruin, Mo Ostin, Lenny Waronker, Michael Ostin, John Beug, Clyde Bakkemo and everyone at Warner-Reprise, George Harrison, Steve Winwood, Sandy, Laura and Stephanie, Tom Petty, Nicholas Brown, Sam Sylvester, Don Passman, Garnet Mellon, Bob Dylan, Roger (Ollie) Spencer, Fred Gretsch, Mike Campbell, Alan 'Bugs' Weidel, Cyril Jones and Raindirk. |
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| | WireImage: Listings |
| | Paul Simon, Elvis Costello, Diana Krall and Mo Ostin |
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| | George Harrison |
| | Dating from the spring of 1977 is the track "Mo" written as a tribute to George's new record company president, Warner Bros. executive Mo Ostin. | | | The track finally saw the light of day in December 1994 on a very rare US promo set celebrating Mo Ostin's career, a six-CD collection, entitled "Mo's Songs," Warner Bros. PRO-MO-1994. | | | The both did an acoustic set of tunes: a.o. |
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| | Vigotone 146 |
| | It was recorded in 1977 and slated for possible inclusion on the George Harrison album and later the Best Of Dark Horse album. | | | Recorded: 1977 - Outtake originally slated for inclusion on 1978 George Harrison album. | | | Issued on a 6 CD promo set celebrating Mo Ostin's tenure at Warner Brothers records early in 1995. |
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http://www.vigotone.com/vigotone/vigotone146.htm
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| | Lost And Found |
| | These 7 tracks are taken from a cassette tape which belonged to Mo Ostin. | | | Some versions of 'Cloud 9' songs that are hardly different and two with some differences. |
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| | writing songs .com website |
| | The former leader of Creedence Clearwater Revival has signed with DreamWorks Records, which is run by Mo Ostin and Lenny Waronker, the team that helped orchestrate Fogerty's 1985 comeback album, Centerfield. | | | There's a good moon rising for John Fogerty, who has a new baby, a new record label and a new album in the works. |
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| | abc7.com: Universal Inks Deal to Buy DreamWorks Records |
| | "Despite the challenges of the music business today, Universal is acquiring a wonderful asset and the sale will assure the strongest possible future for our artists," Mo Ostin, head of DreamWorks Records, said in a statement. | | | The deal could help Universal, the music industry's global market leader, retain its position atop the U.S. music market if a proposed merger between Sony Corp. and Berteslmann AG is finalized. |
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http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/business/111103_bs_universal_dreamworks.html
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| | Boxoffice Magazine [Sneak Preview] |
| | In nabbing a team of top Warner Music executives including the legendary team of Mo Ostin and Lenny Waronker, DreamWorks Records secured immediate legitimacy, a move further enhanced by the high-profile signing of '80s recording superstar George Michael. |
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| | mtv.com - News - Man Arrested In '93 Murder Of Punk Singer Mia Zapata |
| | Then-heads of Warner Bros. Records, Mo Ostin and Lenny Waronker, funded the recording of the concert and released the album in 1995. | | | The song prompted a benefit concert by Jett and the surviving Gits, who called themselves Evil Stig ("Live Gits" backward). |
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http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1459499/20030113/gits.jhtml
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| | LEFT OFF THE DIAL - Stupid or Stunning Quote of the Week Archive |
| | " Mo Ostin and Lenny Waronker ran the company for decades and set the tone by hiring people who love music, because they wanted a bigger view than 'Is this a hit?' We would determine that a band could go all the way, and we would support them financially and emotionally until they did. | | | But sometimes it would take four or five albums for a band like that to make it, and we'd get constant pressure from above to drop them. |
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| | P O P Music Magic Moments |
| | side from the fact that it's extremely encouraging to see Warner Bros. sign the 43-year-old, avowedly noncommercial iconoclast Robyn Hitchcock in these post-Mo Ostin years, it's just plain great to hear from a performer who doesn't know how to release a bad album. | | | As founder of the Soft Boys, inspiration to R.E.M., and prolific creator of 11 solo albums full of lobsters, Dadaism, and pop hooks galore, Hitchcock has been consistently intriguing since the B.N. (before |
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http://www.hotwired.com/music/96/35/robyn.html
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| | Van Halen |
| | Eventually the band was signed by Mo Ostin, a Warner Bros executive, and Ted Templeman, the band's first producer. | | | Unfortunately, KISSÂ’ management passed on signing the band, and the tape did not lead to a record contract. | | | The historic moment took place after a show at the famed Starwood Club in Los Angeles. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/v/va/van_halen.html
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| | A Record Executive's Pride and Joy / Warner Bros. re-releases Lenny Waronker's early masterpieces |
| | Mo Ostin encouraged him to record songwriter Randy Newman, Waronker's closest friend since childhood. | | | In an avaricious, competitive industry where love is seldom lost over the departure of label chiefs, Waronker and Ostin were the exceptions -- beloved, respected record men who built the world's most successful record company on a belief in artistry and quality. | | | Warner Bros.' recent re-release on compact disc of three early, key Waronker productions vividly demonstrates exactly why he was so unlike other record company bosses. |
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| | The Band |
| | He shopped some mediocre demos to Warner Bros but president Mo Ostin was unavailable and Grossman wanted The Band signed immediately so he went to Capitol Records who signed the act, as The Crackers, to a record deal. | | | The same week Helm returned, the Band met producer John Simon through filmmaker Howard Alk. |
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| | The Beau Brummels' "Triangle" Liner Notes |
| | It was Waronker who would produce Triangle, giving them the freedom to create their first album that was consciously molded as a coherent start-to-finish listening experience. | | | They were by this time essentially a studio group, as Elliott's diabetes made it difficult to tour. | | | On a more positive note, Warner Brothers was at this point starting to move in more progressive and artist-friendly directions, under the influence of executives such as Mo Ostin, Joe Smith, and Lenny Waronker. |
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| | BILLBOARD |
| | [Warner Bros. executives] Mo Ostin and Lenny Waronker still viewed Prince as an unstoppable creative force, but had in the post-"Purple Rain" years developed concerns about his business judgments, believing in particular that he released albums too frequently. | | | Shortly after learning of the project, Ostin visited Sunset Sound to hear the record and meet with Prince and Fargnoli. | | | Warners officials began to view his behavior as erratic; he recorded far more material than the label could release and then damaged his own public image through incidents like the "We Are the World" fiasco and the firing of [bandmembers] Wendy and Lisa. |
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| | MSN - Music: Maria Muldaur |
| | Muldaur 's next album, 1974's Waitress in a Donut Shop, featured a hit remake of her Even Dozen-era signature tune "I'm a Woman." Three more Reprise albums followed over the course of the '70s, generally with the cream of the L.A. session crop, but also with increasingly diminishing results. | | | When the Kweskin band broke up in 1968, the couple stayed with their label (Reprise) and began recording together as Geoff & Maria Muldaur. | | | Initially unsure about her musical future, Muldaur 's friends encouraged her to pursue a solo career, as did Reprise president Mo Ostin. |
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| | Digital Interviews: David Sanborn |
| | I think there was a point where Mo Ostin, who was the head of Warner Bros. Records, owed John a favor. | | | John said, "I want you to give high priority to this guy, Dave Sanborn, and listen to him. | | | Maybe you'll want to sign him." I think he guilted Mo into signing me. This was at the time when Warner Bros. was signing a lot of instrumental artists, because they thought the fusion thing was happening. |
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| | Los Angeles Business Journal: Struggling Record Label at DreamWorks Turns to Net - Brief Article |
| | After a handful of moderate successes, the DreamWorks Records label finally has one artist edging into the top 10 albums on the Billboard charts. | | | According to Simon, the label's principals -- Michael Ostin, Mo Ostin, Lenny Waronker and Michael Goldstone -- believe that developing promising artists is more important than capitalizing on the latest music trend. | | | Other than that, the label has very little to show after four years in existence -- somewhat of a surprise considering the group is overseen by record-industry legend David Geffen, not to mention such well-known executives as Mo Ostin and Lenny Waronker. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m5072/is_27_22/ai_63543564
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| | eye - R.E.M. - 09.25.03 |
| | Mo Ostin and Lenny Waronker were good music guys in charge, they weren't just about the bottom line. | | | No, we were pretty happy with the decision, because at the time Warner was the best label out there. |
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| | Sleaze Roxx: News Segment |
| | Neil Young and Paul Simon each offered induction speeches for record label executive Mo Ostin. | | | As a tribute to Ostin, Paul Simon also performed his 1976 hit "Still Crazy After All These Years." | | | Also inducted were record executive Mo Ostin and sidemen Benny Benjamin, Floyd Cramer, and Steve Douglas. |
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| | Reprise Records - History |
| | While a few artists continued to record albums with the distinctive Reprise Riverboat logo, the company's best days seemed behind it. | | | Two years later, the ailing label was sold to Warner Bros. Records with part of the deal being an agreement that Sinatra would star in three Warner Bros. Pictures. | | | It was in the summer of 1987 that Mo Ostin, then Board Chairman of Warner Bros. Records and label President Larry Waronker, announced the reactivation of Reprise, a move that included recruiting an entirely separate promotion staff to service Reprise releases. |
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| | Rock This Way Aerosmith News - FEBRUARY 2003 |
| | Other inductees include the Righteous Brothers, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Motown drummer Benny Benjamin, pianist Floyd Cramer (Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison), and saxophonist Steve Douglas, who played on dozens of Phil Spector's Wall of Sound recordings. | | | Cray, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry) and a few younger performers (Mos Def, India.Arie and Chris Thomas King, who played Delta-style slide guitar over a disc jockey's drumbeat). | | | A spokesperson for the ceremony could not confirm who will be inducting which artists, although U2 singer Bono has long spoken of his admiration for the Clash. |
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| | Music.com Cheap Trick |
| | Compiled from the same shows as At Budokan, the record provided an effective reminder of why the group was so popular in the late '70s, not only for the public, but for the band as well. | | | Then the band decided to go back to the basics. | | | In 1995, Cheap Trick [+] asked to leave Warner after the label's chief executives, Lenny Waronker [+] and Mo Ostin [+], departed. |
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| | The Who This Month |
| | Details of the settlement are never publicly announced. | | | Pete tells him is incapable of writing another Who album and begs him to find a way to release The Who from their contract. | | | Pete has a meeting with Mo Ostin, chairman of Warner Brothers Records. |
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| | paulsimon.com news |
| | Video of Paul’s performance of “Still Crazy After All These Years,” performed in Ostin’s honor, is available at VH1’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame site here. | | | Paul Simon joined Neil Young and Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels in inducting former Warner/Reprise executive Mo Ostin into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 10th. |
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| | CNN.com - Rock Hall of Fame opens doors to Clash, Police, Costello, AC/DC - Mar. 11, 2003 |
| | Benjamin was Motown's first drummer, pianist Cramer played with Elvis Presley and sax player Douglas was a prominent member of Spector's studio "Wrecking Crew." Ostin led Warner Brothers during its strongest years. | | | Mo Ostin, longtime Warner Brothers Records chief, won a lifetime achievement award. | | | The Rock and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is in Cleveland but the induction ceremonies are held in New York. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/11/rock.hall.fame.ap/index.html
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| | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum : Search |
| | Mo Ostin (born March 27, 1927) For three decades, Mo Ostin helped steer the Warner-Reprise record labels through a remarkable period of commercial prosperity and musical excellence. | | | Beginning in 1948 with his first single, "Boogie Chillen," he introduced the world to the persistent, chugging rhythm of boogie mu... | | | Jimmy Reed rates as one of the most popular and significant bluesmen of the postwar era. |
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| | WEA : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music |
| | But Sinatra had hired Mo Ostin away from Verve to run Reprise, and Ostin was one of the best record men of the era. | | | Ostin left '95 to join Dreamworks SKG Music with Spielberg, Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, and a Warner executive said '96, 'Nothing has been the same... | | | WEATHERLY, Jim (b 17 March '43, Pontotoc MS) Soulful country singer-songwriter best-known for hits written for Gladys Knight & The Pips ('Neither One Of Us', 'Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me', 'Midnight Train To Georgia', etc.) Growing up in the deep South his songs and singing style have always been evocative of that region. |
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| | Oregon Music Guide - Volume II , Number 2 - Blair's Bit |
| | Mo Ostin, longtime head of Warner Brothers Records, built the label on nurturing the talent and giving them the room they needed. | | | Mo and the labels other two principals, Lenny Waronker and Michael Ostin, are expected to stay on but will make way for a new label head. | | | I know that weÂ’re all supposed to hate the major labels because of the evils theyÂ’ve perpetrated on musicians and fans alike but there was something about DWR you had to like. |
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| | Pop music's dynamic duo - 6/25/02 |
| | The only label that nourishes artists is DreamWorks -- (label chiefs) Mo Ostin and Lenny Waronker care about music." | | | You can reach Susan Whitall at (313) 222-2156 or a swhitall@detnews.com |
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| | The KISS F.A.Q. - Gene Simmons & Van Halen (08/2002) |
| | Soon afterwards, Warner Brother's house-producer saw the band, and convinced label executive Mo Ostin to sign them". | | | This little editorial shall explore the connection between Gene and Van Halen... |
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| | True pioneers deserve better |
| | UCLA's reason for switching names was not, as one might imagine, Mr Ostin's superior contribution to musical culture. | | | No decision has yet been made where to put the Ostin plaques, though the chat sites are not short on suggestions. | | | The new dedicatee was Mo Ostin, a UCLA economics alumnus who rose to towering heights in the record industry, running the Warner Bros empire before joining Stephen Spielberg's DreamWorks. |
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http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrecht/001025-NL-pioneers.html
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| | Up From the Mailroom |
| | What Geffen did next, Tom King reports in this exhaustive and often finger-wagging biography of the entertainment mogul, was ''preposterous, duplicitous and downright awful.'' | | | Though the company has had many successes, its record division, headed by Mo Ostin (it is a small world!), has failed to comprehend a market dominated by hip-hop and teen pop. | | | Geffen's audacious goal was to hornswoggle Warner, which owned half of Geffen Records, to give up its 50 percent stake as a reward for Geffen's agreeing to a five-year contract extension with the parent company. |
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http://partners.nytimes.com/books/00/03/26/reviews/000326.26hirscht.html
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| | Words on Words: Exploding |
| | For music fans, it's a trip through the history of popular (and unpopular but influential) music of the last half century: Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, The Grateful Dead, Madonna, Debbie Boone and everyone in between. | | | Cornyn and Scanlon accurately evoke many of the casual excesses of the industry as it grew like mad in the '60s and '70s, cooled in the '80s and achieved nova status in the '90s. | | | The book works on many levels: For business people, it's a fascinating view of the inner workings of one of the country's most interesting, celebrated and imitated companies and its blindingly colorful cadre of executives, including Steve Ross, Mo Ostin, Joe Smith, Ahmet Ertegun, Robert Morgado, Doug Morris, Richard Parsons and the rest. |
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| | RollingStone.com: News - Rufus Wainwright - Universal Acquires Dreamworks |
| | The label was guided by a team of veteran label execs including Mo Ostin and Lenny Waronker, who helped establish Warner Bros. as one of the most prestigious and productive record labels in the Seventies. | | | "Building Dreamworks Records has been one of the great professional experiences of my career," Ostin said. | | | Dreamworks Records was modeled in a similar fashion to the Warners of the Seventies, cultivating artists like Elliott Smith and Rufus Wainwright who might not have offered short-term profitability. |
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| | Arts Journal: Arts Issues |
| | THE NAME GAME : UCLA has agreed to restore the name of its concert hall to Arnold Schoenberg Hall, in honor of the great composer who taught on campus in the ‘30s and ‘40s. | | | When the university announced a new dedicatee last month, record industry exec Mo Ostin, a slew of public protests ensued. |
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| | Van Halen Links.com - Interviews - Eddie Van Halen - November 1978 ::. Guitar Player |
| | We didn't want to go around knocking on people's doors, saying, 'Sign us, sign us,' so we ended up with just a decent sounding tape." While playing the Starwood, the band also came to the attention of Marshall Berle, who would eventually become their manager. | | | It was through Berle, Eddie explains, that the band had its fortuitous meeting with Ted Templeman and Mo Ostin: "We were playing the club one rainy Monday night in 1977, and Berle told us that there were some people coming to see us, so play good. | | | Templeman said,' It's great,' and within a week we were signed up. |
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