Sire Records

His name was Peter Friedman.

And the Ocean Blue and Sire Records had parted ways.

And the Ocean Blue had a respectable sales history.

And, you know, pretty much it was, you know, my evaluating where they'd been, where they were, what the sales pattern was and what the opportunity might be.

Got it.

Okay.

But also, I do remember having to tussle with Seymour Stein at Sire Records because Tanya Donnelly, I guess, was on Sire.

And so he felt he had a right to it.

KSCU and andhow.fm. Music there from the Wild Swans from their 1988 album, Bringing Home the Ashes.

Great release on Sire Records.

I wish that band had more output.

Not a ton of music in their repertoire, which spanned most of the decade, but that's a great record there from 88 and the track Northern England.

The farewell performance took place at the Labor Temple in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and that took care of the group because lead singer Rod Stewart decided to go on to his solo career, and guitarist Ron Wood ended up committing to the Rolling Stones, so the group as the Faces were essentially done.

In 1976, Art Rock Pioneers Talking Heads signed their first official recording contract with Sire Records.

Co-founder Seymour Stein signed the original trio after watching them in the New York scene opening up for the Ramones at CBGB's.

And yes, you did hear that correctly.

Sure enough, I was.

So David managed us and David really kind of joined the dots and he got us a deal with Sire Records and we signed with Seymour Stein in 1995.

Nice.

And so.

You know, Brant and Matt Huseman are identical twins too.

The story behind it, yeah, this year we put out an album by Greenberry Woods, which is the first album that they've done since they were on Sire Records back in the 90s.

And that was a pretty big deal.

But what happened is they did their two albums, the Greenberry Woods did their two albums on Sire, and then they split up.

Did you recognize that band, if not that song? What a signature style they had back in 1976.

On the eve of punk rock for most people, even the New York variety, they signed to Sire, one of the first bands of the new Sire era.

Anticipating the Ramones, who also came out with their first album in 76, and Richard Hell and the Dead Boys and the Saints and Radio Birdman and Talking Heads and all those bands, Rizzillos.

What a great label they had.

Go drum, go dance, round And

for you statisticians listening, the three hit singles of Redbox were Lean On Me, For America and Heart Of The Sun and their only album appears to have been The Circle and The Square and they recorded for Sire Records.

Here's an artist who needs no introduction, Morrissey.

And this is rather appropriate for today.