Barnaby Records was an American

United States

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 record company founded by singer Andy Williams

Andy Williams

Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams is an American singer who has recorded 18 Gold- and three Platinum-certified albums. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a TV variety show, from 1962 to 1971, as well as numerous television specials, and owns his own theater, the Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri,...

 in 1963 with his purchase of soon-to-be-liquidated Cadence Records

Cadence Records

Cadence Records was an American record company based in New York City. It was founded by Archie Bleyer, who had been the musical director and orchestra leader for Arthur Godfrey in 1952...

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It held the rights to work by a number of popular music performers including Williams work before he was with Columbia Records

Columbia Records

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Williams got control of the Cadence master tapes in the 1960s but limited releases to that of himself and another former Cadence artist, Lenny Welch. This material was released on Williams' current label at the time, Columbia Records.

In 1970 Williams created the Barnaby label to release the rest of the long unreleased Cadence archive, principally that of the Everly Brothers, which had been long out of print but in continued great demand. Cadence also released new material by artists such as Ray Stevens, who scored a Top Ten hit with his single "Everything Is Beautiful". Barnaby also released some early LPs by Jimmy Buffett

Jimmy Buffett

James William "Jimmy" Buffett is a singer-songwriter, author, entrepreneur, and film producer. He is best known for his music, which often portrays an "island escapism" lifestyle. Together with his Coral Reefer Band, Buffett's musical hits include "Margaritaville" , and "Come Monday"...

 as well as a few LPs by Claudine Longet

Claudine Longet

Claudine Georgette Longet is a French singer and recording artist who was popular during the 1960s and 1970s. She is also an actress and a dancer.Born in Paris, France, Longet was married to pop singer Andy Williams from 1961 until 1975...

, who was Williams's wife at the time.

Barnaby had several distributors including CBS

Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...

, then MGM

MGM Records

MGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946, for the purpose of releasing soundtrack albums of their musical films. Later it became a pop label, lasting into the 1970s...

, and finally GRT in 1974. Once Barnaby ceased operating as a working record company at the end of the 1970s, Williams licensed the old Cadence and Barnaby material to various other labels such as Varèse Sarabande

Varèse Sarabande

Varèse Sarabande is an American record label, distributed by Universal Music Group, which specializes in film scores and original cast recordings. It aims to reissue rare or unavailable albums as well as newer releases by artists no longer under a contract...

 and Rhino

Rhino Entertainment

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, and Time-Life

Time-Life

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 after 1980.

Performers

Performers signed to Barnaby include:

• Paul Anka
  Paul Anka
  Paul Albert Anka, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor.Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hit songs like "Diana'", "Lonely Boy", and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder"...
  
  
• Jimmy Buffett
  Jimmy Buffett
  James William "Jimmy" Buffett is a singer-songwriter, author, entrepreneur, and film producer. He is best known for his music, which often portrays an "island escapism" lifestyle. Together with his Coral Reefer Band, Buffett's musical hits include "Margaritaville" , and "Come Monday"...
  
  
• The Chordettes
• The Crickets
  The Crickets
  The Crickets are a rock & roll band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer/songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s. Their first hit record was "That'll Be the Day", released in 1957....
  
  
• The Everly Brothers
• Doyle Holly
  Doyle Holly
  Doyle Floyd Hendricks, known by the stage name Doyle Holly was an American musician best known as the bass guitar player of the country music band Buck Owens and the Buckaroos and for his solo hit songs "Queen Of The Silver Dollar" and "Lila". Holly's contributions on bass guitar and rhythm guitar...
  
  
• Claudine Longet
  Claudine Longet
  Claudine Georgette Longet is a French singer and recording artist who was popular during the 1960s and 1970s. She is also an actress and a dancer.Born in Paris, France, Longet was married to pop singer Andy Williams from 1961 until 1975...
  
  
• Charles Mingus
  Charles Mingus
  Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...
  
  
• Don Shirley
  Don Shirley
  Don Shirley is an American-Jamaican jazz pianist and composer.Shirley's prodigious piano skills were recognized early and Shirley began his career as a composer and virtuoso performer at a young age....
  
  
• Ray Stevens
  Ray Stevens
  Ray Stevens is an American country music, pop singer-songwriter who has become known for his novelty songs.-Early career:...
  
  
• Cecil Taylor
  Cecil Taylor
  Cecil Percival Taylor is an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and...
  
  
• The Toshiko - Mariano Quartet
  The Toshiko - Mariano Quartet
  The jazz album The Toshiko - Mariano Quartet featuring Toshiko Akiyoshi on piano and Charlie Mariano on alto saxophone was recorded in New York in 1960 and released on the Candid label...
  
  
• Lenny Welch
  Lenny Welch
  Lenny Welch , is an American MOR/pop singer.He was born in New York City on May 31, 1938 . He was raised in Asbury Park, New Jersey. His biggest hit, a cover version of the big band standard "Since I Fell for You," reached number 4 on U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1963...
  
  
• Link Wray
  Link Wray
  Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray Jr was an American rock and roll guitarist, songwriter and occasional singer....
  
  

External links

• The Barnaby Label Album Discography