Verve Records

The album is called Motherland.

And it was on the Verve Music Group.

It contains 13 songs, 56 minutes total.

Danilo Perez is a Panamanian pianist, composer, educator, and a social activist, according to Wiki.

All right.

He's an A&R guy at Verve Records.

He needs his piano tuned.

No joke.

It's a good way to mix it up, you know.

Our next number, 15,000.

That's how much it cost to record her first album for Verve Records, which feels like a lot of money for 1966.

There's a lot of strings on it, a lot of backup singers, but I think that's like over $100,000 in 20, $26.

That's what happens when you sell your information to Meta.

Laufey signs with Interscope Records and Verve Records, so that means that she's no longer independent.

Once again, Interscope and UMG are cleaning up.

They are picking up some amazing artists that are around.

That was a Michael Lloyd thing.

But when this album came up, this is when he just started the new deal with Verve Records.

And he told me about this idea.

He had the idea.

Like, were they

major deals? No, the first one was a development deal with Verve Records with David Foster.

Wow.

Yeah.

It was so cool to see him work.

And one day he told my mom, he's like, I'm going to record Lily eventually.

And so down the road, he got me that development deal with Verve Records

and

So seeing the living legends basically every night or studying with them was just an incredible experience.

Fast forward, I started my career at Universal Records, working for Verve Music, a legendary music house, so definitely an honor to be working there.

Two years, two months later, I co-founded my own boutique jazz label at the intersection of jazz and lifestyle music.

that's where things started to get interesting because i was living for family reasons between new york and geneva switzerland and for jazz europe is very important market and we started to focus on selling music and non-traditional venues such as working with hotels uh design shops museums etc so we created an international distribution network uh did a lot of uh digital partnerships uh everything from amazon i'm sorry not amazon but um microsoft so one of their operating systems i think it was the vista was embedded with 13 tracks as a global license two of those tracks are from our artists a lot of things with apple itunes music uh et cetera et cetera aol music i'm dating myself so we did a lot of digital and sort of hybrid focusing on physical as lifestyle um Fast forward, it's hard to compete with free because that's what the industry was quickly becoming.

Oh.

Oh.I think they were just trying to get signed to Verve Records.

Um-

Oh, sure

Already famous in his native country by the late 1950s, he became an internationally renowned star in the mid-1960s through his collaboration with the singer-astroed Gilberto, who with saxophonist Stan Getz scored a major hit in 1964 with the girl from Ipanema.

Von Der Lee recorded six albums on Verve Records between 1966 and 1968.

In September 1966, his version of Samba Samba hit the Billboard charts.

reaching number 26 on the Hot 100 and number 3 on the Easy Listening Chart.