Chancellor Records

Chancellor Records was an American record company that was based in Philadelphia. The company was 1957-1964 on the market.

History

Chancellor Records was founded in 1957 by music producer Bob Marcucci and Peter DeAngelis in Philadelphia. From the beginning, there were close contacts also based in Philadelphia television show American Bandstand, which proved to be a favorable platform for the dissemination of Chancellor productions. A collaboration there were also with the large record company ABC - Paramount, on the Chancellor their worldwide distribution channels could use. Marcucci had already made in the rock ' n ' roll scene name as a developer of new talent and created his new company the opportunity also to market the talents themselves. He relied mainly on local interpreters of the Philadelphia region, and so did the first stars in Chancellor singer from Philadelphia were: Jodie Sands, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.

Be first succeeded Jodie Sands to come with their title With All My Heart in the Billboard Hot 100, it reached there as the best listing in the spring of 1957 15th place It was third production Chancellors and received the catalog number 1003, with the number 1001 had begun in 1957. Even with No 1011 succeeded Chancellor made ​​it into the top 10 with Frankie Avalon Title Dede Dinah, who advanced all the way to Rank 7. Avalon became the most successful artists of the record label. With Venus and Why he had in 1959 two number-one hits and placed with Chancellor productions a total of 16 times on the Hot 100 was succeeded by Fabian, who was also placed seven times and titled Tiger contributed a number three.

Chancellors success continued until 1962, a total of 29 singles came under the Hot 100 the last big hit was Claudine Clark Party Lights, who captured fifth place in the summer of 1962. In the same year Frankie Avalon and Fabian Chancellor Records left and struck a film career. Marcucci and DeAngelis was not able to find an adequate replacement, numerous attempts with local rock groups failed. So, for example, launched the The Surfaris in 1963 under Chancellor ( The Midnight Surf / Psyche -Out, No 1142 ), but were successful only at Dot Records.

Between 1957 and 1964 published Chancellor Records 150 45 rpm singles. During the first productions were mono records, the plates published in 1959 in stereo. Among the catalog numbers 5001-5032 Chancellor brought 32 LPs out, mainly with its stars Frankie Avalon and Fabian. The color of the disk labels until 1959 was pink, then you went over to a black label.

Chancellors Hot 100