Reprise Records
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| Parent company | Warner Music Group |
| Founded | 1960 |
| Founder(s) | Frank Sinatra |
| Distributing label | Warner Bros. Records (US) WEA (outside the US) |
| Genre(s) | Various |
| Country of Origin | US |
| Website | Official site of Reprise Records |
Reprise Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group, operated through Warner Bros. Records.
[edit] Company history
Reprise was originally formed in 1960 by Frank Sinatra in order to allow more artistic freedom for his own recordings. Fellow Rat Pack members Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. also moved to the label. Stand up comedian Redd Foxx also recorded for the label during its fledgling years. The label still issues any Sinatra work recorded while on the label, and after Frank Sinatra died in 1998 it had great success with his greatest hits.
Reprise was sold to Warner Bros. Records in early 1963. In the time since, Warner Bros. has often treated Reprise as a bit of a secondary parent label, as many of its subsidiary labels have had their records released in conjunction with Reprise. Many of the artists formally signed to Sire records found themselves on Reprise when Warner ceased to manufacture the imprint. Madonna found herself on Reprise after divesting from Maverick Recording Company, the label she had begun (while renegotiating her contract) as a joint venture with WEA in the early 1990's.
In the late 1970s, Joni Mitchell and Captain Beefheart having left the label, Sinatra expressed a wish to be the sole artiste on Reprise - but Neil Young refused to leave.
Today it is home to such artists as Neil Young, Green Day, Barenaked Ladies, Josh Groban and My Chemical Romance.
