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American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres formed a records division, incorporating the Am-Par Record Corporation on June 14, 1955 with Samuel H. Clark as its first president. [5] [6] By August 1955, the unit was organized with AMPCO ( ASCAP) and PAMCO ( BMI) as subsidiary publishing units. [7] .
- 1979; 44 years ago
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- 1955; 68 years ago
- American Broadcasting Company
ABC-Paramount was created in May 1951, although the merger wasn't approved until February 1953. The new company was the only radio-television conglomerate without a record label until Sam Clark was hired to organize ABC-Paramount Records in June 1955. The first records appeared that November.
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To market music from the successful TV show, ABC-Paramount established the Am-Par Record Corporation and the ABC-Paramount label in early 1955, appointing Sam Clark, a Boston record distributor, as president, with Larry Newton as sales manager and Harry Levine the A&R director.
In 1971, Tommy Mottola married Lisa Clark, daughter of ABC records owner Sam Clark. The couple had two children, Michael and Sarah, and later divorced in 1990. In 1993, he had a much publicized high profile wedding with Mariah Carey (20 years younger).
Mottola has been married three times. He converted to Judaism to marry his first wife, Lisa Clark, daughter of ABC Records head Sam Clark, in 1971. The couple divorced in 1990, after having two children. On June 5, 1993, Mottola married his second wife, Mariah Carey.
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For unofficial releases/counterfeit/bootlegs, please use ABC Records (5). Use ABC Recording Studios for the recording location. In 1955, American Broadcasting-Paramount Theaters, Inc. formed a subsidiary company called Am-Par Record Corp. which began to release pop, jazz, rhythm and blues, children's and spoken word records under the label name ABC-Paramount.
ABC Records history dates back to 1955, when Samuel Clark and Larry Newton launched the Am-Par Corporation as a subsidiary of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theaters. Internationally, ABC opened a United Kingdom office in 1971 and Continental Europe in 1972. Both were shuttered in 1977.
