From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #16545 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Friday, August 22 2025 Volume 14 : Number 16545 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Run Your Home Without Paying the Power Company ["Light Saver" Subject: Run Your Home Without Paying the Power Company Run Your Home Without Paying the Power Company http://memorylift.ru.com/i_uzaABTdHyINbEvZ81g0-Vt0vvgQae1dkZFXfqNLWhpehsBjA http://memorylift.ru.com/b0uEUItIS6Naz6CW3ad6ugo7oPolRID7rQCi1Aqi_0E008Mf ner Bros. returned to the record business on March 19, 1958, with the establishment of its own recording division, Warner Bros. Records. By this time, the established Hollywood studios were reeling from multiple challenges to their former dominancebthe most notable being the introduction of television in the late 1940s. Legal changes also had a major impact on their businessblawsuits brought by major stars had effectively overthrown the old studio contract system by the late 1940s and, beginning in 1949, anti-trust suits brought by the U.S. government forced the five major studios to divest their cinema chains. In 1956, Harry Warner and Albert Warner sold their interest in the studio and the board was joined by new members who favored a renewed expansion into the music businessbCharles Allen of the investment bank Charles Allen & Company, Serge Semenenko of the First National Bank of Boston and investor David Baird. Semenenko in particular had a strong professional interest in the entertainment business and he began to push Jack Warner on the issue of setting up an 'in-house' record label. With the record business booming b sales had topped US$500 million by 1958 b Semnenko argued that it was foolish for Warner Bros. to make deals with other companies to release its soundtracks when, for less than the cost of one motion picture, they could establish their own label, creating a new income stream that could continue indefinitely and provide an additional means of exploiting and promoting its contract actors. Another impetus for the label's creation was the music career of Warner Bros. actor Tab Hunter. Although Hunter was signed to an exclusive acting contract with the studio, it did not prevent him from signing a recording contract, which he did with Dot Records, owned at the time by Paramount Pictures. Hunter scored seve ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #16545 ***********************************************