Mushroom Records

If you didn't know, that was a cover song.

So anyway, it turns out someone from Mushroom Records was in the crowd and somehow it was put on a tape like that performance.

So then from that little performance, Mushroom Records end up signing her and releasing her cover of Locomotion.

And that essentially kickstarted her whole career.

Now, I know what you're thinking.

Little Queen was the first album Heart released for the CBS Portrait label, their old label.

Mushroom Records sued the band, and in 1978 released Magazine, an album made up of previously recorded material that Heart did not want released.

Right now, here is Heart.

This is called Barracuda.

The EP was released in December of 1980, with initial pressings of 1,000 copies selling out in two weeks.

In February 1981, the band signed to Mushroom Records, and in May they entered the studio to record their debut album, once again with Lobby Lloyd acting as producer.

The result was the creation of their self-titled album that brought together the array of songs that propelled the band to national significance and their popularity to greater heights.

The city kids are on hate While others I know like to wait They watch the band rising It don't seem surprising Their feet are glued flat to the floor La la la la la la la So the mood is changing La, la, la, la, la, la, don't anybody see Hey, listen I'm not seeing nothing that's new Should be apparent to you

When we last talked about Heart, it was about their daring escape to Canada to avoid the draft for the Vietnam War.

The band recorded Crazy On You and released it with Vancouver record label Mushroom Records.

Today, we'll talk about how the relationship with the band and the label soured, and how that turned into an even bigger hit.

The beginning of the end for Mushroom Records and Heart was when a male radio promoter came up to Ann Wilson and asked her how her lover was.

Wilson naturally thought the man was referring to her actual boyfriend, the band's manager, Michael Fisher.

The promoter corrected her and let her know that the lover he was referring to was Nancy Wilson, Ann's sister.

Why would a random radio man think the two sisters were keeping it in the family? Why? Because Mushroom Records published an ad in trades magazines saying as much.

The goal was to drum up attention, and it certainly got the Wilson sisters' attention.

In 1987, when she was better known as Charlene in Neighbours, Kylie and the cast performed the Carole King and Jerry Goffin version from the 1960s at a charity event.

which raised a few of the right eyebrows, one might say, from Mushroom Records execs, who then shipped it out to stock Aitken and Waterman, who re-recorded their own version for the global market.

And voila, the locomotion burst onto the charts.

To another debut, but this one was actually released two years earlier, in 1986 – But it bombed and then Love Changes Everything turned them into Overnight Stars.