ABKCO Records
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ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. is the successor company to a business that was founded in 1961 as Allen Klein & Co. Allen Klein was then a business manager specializing in music clients including Bobby Darin and Sam Cooke and, later, managed The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. ABKCO Industries was founded in 1968 as an umbrella company involved in management, music publishing, film, TV and theatrical production. Later that year, Cameo Parkway Records was acquired by ABKCO, bringing the legendary Philadelphia label’s decade-long run of hits into the fold.
Today, ABKCO is one of the leading independent record companies in the world. It is home to critical catalog assets that include recordings by Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Marianne Faithfull, The Kinks as well as the Cameo Parkway label ,which include the original master recordings of by such artists as Chubby Checker, Bobby Rydell, The Orlons, The Dovells, ? & The Mysterians, The Tymes and Dee Dee Sharp. ABKCO administers Phil Spector Records and its master recordings including iconic hits by The Righteous Brothers, The Ronettes, The Crystals and others.
The company’s music publishing division comprises over two thousand copyrights including songs composed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Sam Cooke, Bobby Womack, Ray Davies, Pete Townshend and other legendary composers. ABKCO also administers several important publishing catalogs including Phil Spector's Mother Bertha Music.
Today ABKCO is active on many fronts including the release of critically lauded compilations and reissues from its catalogs, film and commercial placement of its master recordings and music publishing properties. It is engaged in ongoing catalog research and development ensuring its continuing role as an innovator in the music field.
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[edit] Trivia
[edit] What's In A Name
ABKCO stands for "Allen & Betty Klein and Company."
[edit] "Beware of ABKCO"
"Beware of Darkness" is a song by George Harrison that featured on his first post-Beatles album "All Things Must Pass". When he was demoing this song for Phil Spector during 1970 he jokingly changed one line of the lyrics to "Beware of ABKCO".
