Casey Cosby knew a sound engineer at Sunset Sound named Bill Lazerus; the idea was that they would make a demo of the Music Emporium album and then re-record it at a record label’s studio.  Another of Cosby’s contacts, Jack Ames of Sentinel Records – Ames had just left Liberty Records – bought the tape and decided that the music only needed to be remixed, with the vocals re-recorded. 

(October 2013)

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United Artists Records balked at Cristy Lane’s plans to release a remake of “One Day at a Time”; instead, Liberty Records released the song and the accompanying album, Ask Me to Dance.  “One Day at a Time” hit #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles, and the song became the cornerstone of a television and Internet marketing juggernaut for Cristy Lane’s music. 

(July 2014)

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Two guitarists from Tacoma, Washington, Bob Bogle and Don Wilson formed a duo in 1958 called the Versatones, later named the Impacts; they began playing dates with a variety of rhythm sections.  Since both band names had already been registered, they changed their name to the Ventures.  After being rejected by a Liberty Records subsidiary called Dolton Records, the two formed their own label, Blue Horizon Records and released a single, “Cookies and Coke”, with Don Wilson on vocals.  Later they added Nokie Edwards (bass guitar) and Skip Moore (drums) and became an instrumental rock band.  

(December 2014)

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In 1967, Elton John – then using his real name Reggie Dwight – answered an ad in the prominent British magazine New Musical Express by Ray Williams, a Liberty Records A&R man.  (The initials stand for “artists and repertoire”; they are basically the people who shake the bushes looking for new talent).  Bernie Taupin had answered the same ad; although neither artist was actually signed by Liberty Records, Ray Williams gave him Taupin’s telephone number.

(April 2015/1)