Ariola Records

Ariola (LC 00116 ) was founded in 1958 and is one of Germany's most successful record labels.

  • 2.1 Singles
  • 2.2 LPs

History

After the entrepreneur Reinhard Mohn in 1950 his Bertelsmann Lesering had (now The Club ) founded, which allowed members to obtain current books priced, he wanted to offer to extend the mid-50s on vinyl records. 1956, founded under the motto "For the good book has a beautiful sound," the Bertelsmann Schallplattenring. The young company, however, had to contend with starting difficulties. So the record companies wanted at first not awarded the necessary licenses to distribute the disks over the Schallplattenring. In addition, there was another pressing plants sometimes not possible for contractual reasons, to accept orders from Bertelsmann. For this reason, Built in 1957, the press shop Sonopress in Gütersloh.

On April 22, 1958, establishing the Ariola Sonopress GmbH and an Austrian subsidiary, which were equipped with a pressing capacity of 225,000 panels a month. The first release under the new name was The Rainbow Children of Josephine Baker. Initially, the repertoire included only a total of 72 titles by six performers, which made it difficult for the company to gain a foothold in the industry. Slowly but first successes and in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Stuttgart offices were established in 1961 another music production was opened in Cologne. Earlier Ariola 1960 with the Cologne folk actor Willy Millowitsch its previously -selling success with the mood song brandy, that was his last word, from the 900,000 copies have been implemented.

Over time, more and more successful artists were added. In addition, however, the company also landed flops as the first single from the pop singer Manuela. From the Single Hula Serenade / Candy ( 1962) is sold only 6,000 pieces. In 1964 the label some beat singles, among others, The Rattles, with live recordings from the legendary Star Club. The company was able to take attractive recording contracts with profit sharing some established stars of other labels from the mid- 1960s. So alternated among other poplulären pop singer Peter Alexander, Udo Jürgens and Rex Gildo to Ariola. In 1969, the seat of Ariola Euro Disc GmbH of Gutersloh was moved to Munich.

The Company entered into lucrative licensing agreements with national and international music producer. Among other things, the following labels were temporarily in the distribution of Ariola: 10 Records, 20th Century Fox, A & M Records, Arista Records, Baby Records, Baccarola, bronze, Barclay Records, Cameo - Parkway, Chrysalis Records, DDD, DJM, Euro Disc, Gordy, Hansa, instant Records, Iceland, Jupiter Records, Kapp Records, Linn, Logic Records, MCS, Melodiya, Montana, Music, Musicor, Musiza, Page One, pallet, President, Pye Records, Red Point Rush, Rocket Records, RCA Victor, Shelter, Top Rank, United Artists Records, Virgin Records, Whatley, White Records and Yum Yum.

In the 1970s, the record company founded subsidiaries in the Benelux countries and Spain (1970 ), France (1973 ), the USA ( 1975), and Mexico, the UK and in Switzerland ( 1977). At the beginning of the 1980s acquired Ariola Hansa music production. 1986 Sonopress began with the production of compact discs. A year later, the label Ariola with the UFA and Sonopress merged to BMG Ariola München GmbH.

In 2004, the label Ariola was part of the joint venture Sony BMG Music Entertainment. On 5 August 2008 the resolution was announced. Sony acquires the shares of Bertelsmann and will in future operate under the name of Sony Music Entertainment Inc. ( a subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation). Bertelsmann takes over the master rights of some " selected European music catalogs " from Sony BMG and performs the BMG brand as " licensing and management platform for the perception and marketing of music rights " on.

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1967-1987

1988-2006

Since 2006

German number-one hits of Ariola (1958 to 1999)

Singles

  • Dalida - On the day when the rain came (1959 )
  • Jan & Kjeld - Banjo Boy (1960 )
  • Peter Alexander - The Last Waltz (1968 )
  • Heintje - Thou shalt not cry (1968 )
  • Heintje - Heidschi Bumbeidschi (1968 )
  • Peter Alexander - Love's Sorrow (1969 )
  • Heintje - I sing a song for you ( 1969)
  • Peret: Borriquito (1971 )
  • Daisy Door - You live in your world (Highlights Of My Dreams ) ( 1972)
  • Tony Marshall - Come give me your hand (1972 )
  • T. Rex - Metal Guru (1972 )
  • WUMS singing - I wish ' me ' ne little kitty (1972 )
  • Mireille Mathieu - La Paloma ade (1974 )
  • Michael Holm - Tears do not lie (1974 )
  • Udo Jürgens - Greek wine (1975 )
  • Boney M - Malaika / Consuela Biaz (Spanish Single Version ) ( 1981)

LPs

  • Compilation - The most beautiful Russian folk songs ( 1967)
  • Peter Alexander - Schlager Rendezvous 1 (1968 )
  • Heintje - Heintje (1968 )
  • Udo Jürgens - Udo Live (1969 )
  • Heintje - I sing a song for you ( 1969)
  • Compilation - Super 20 (1974 )
  • Compilation - Super 20 - Super New ( 1975)
  • Udo Jürgens - Buenos dias Argentina ( 1978)
  • Andrea Jürgens - Christmas with Andrea Jürgens ( 1980)
  • "Rock Made In Switzerland " with Flame Dream ( Compilation ) (Switzerland Ariola 1981)

Other artists at Ariola (selection)

  • Jürgen Drews
  • Katja Ebstein
  • Jimmy Ellner
  • Rex Gildo
  • Uschi Glas
  • Max Greger
  • Hanne Haller
  • Mary and Margot Hellwig
  • Kurt Henkels
  • Claus Herwig
  • Peter Hinnen
  • Bata Ilić
  • Ronny Weiland
  • Thomas Karaoglan
  • Greta Keller
  • Tommy Kent
  • Gaby King
  • Claudia Koreck
Genre Beat music Star-Club Peter Alexander (Austrian performer) RCA Records Virgin Group Universum Film AG List of number-one hits (Germany) Tony Marshall (singer) T. Rex (band) Boney M. Bobbejaan Schoepen Maria Hellwig Krokus (Band)
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