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Joe´s Music Rack Part of YOUR KEY TO COLLECTIBLES© ARISTA RECORDS |
Arista Records was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who after being fired from CBS Records, was hired by Columbia Pictures to be a consultant for the company’s record and music operations. Assuming the presidency of this division in late 1974, Davis would fold the various Columbia legacy labels (Colpix Records, Colgems Records, and Bell Records) into a new entity named Arista Records, ultimately buying a percentage of the company from Columbia. The label was named Arista after New York City's secondary school honor society (of which Davis was a member at Erasmus Hall High School).
In early 1975, most of the artists who had been signed to Bell were let go, including Tony Orlando and Dawn and the Fifth Dimension. Others, such as Suzi Quatro and Hot Chocolate, were farmed out to the Bell/Arista-distributed label, Big Tree. Several acts, such as Barry Manilow, the Bay City Rollers, and Melissa Manchester moved to Arista.
The British Bell label kept that name for a couple of years before changing its name to Arista.
Arista was called Bell Records until 1975. It was acquired by Ariola Records at the end of the 1970s and is now part of the Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG)We have no association with Arista Records or any one in the recording industry. Should you be interested in acquiring albums listed here (all of which are out of print), we suggest you go back to our Label page and see what we have now, (remember we up date all the time so the list will change.)
We are always working to get YOU a complete list of ARISTA RECORDS
Label Number - Artist - Album Title [Issue Date when known][Billboard listing when known]
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0698 Patti Smith - Horses [1975]
Gloria/Redondo Beach/Birdland/Free Money//
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18263 Alan Parsons Project - Vulture Culture [1984]
Let's Talk About Me/Separate Lives/Days Are Numbers (The Traveller)/Sooner or Later//
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18292 Air Supply - Now and Forever [1982]
Now and Forever/Even the Nights Are Better/Young Love/Two Less Lonely People in the World/Taking the Chance/
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18495 Billy Ocean - Tear Down The Walls [1988]
Tear Down These Walls/Gun for Hire/Stand and Deliver/The Colour of Love/Calypso Crazy/Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car/
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19567 The Kinks - Give The People What They Want [1981]
Around the Dial/Give the People What They Want/Killer's Eyes/Predictable/Add It Up/Destroyer/Yo-Yo/Back to Front/
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19573 Barry Manilow - If I Should Love Again
The Old Songs/Let's Hang On/If I Should Love Again/Don't Fall In Love With Me/Break Down The Door/
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19589 Graham Parker - Another Grey Area
Temporary Beauty/Another Grey Area/Big Fat Zero/No More Excurses/Dark Side of the Bright Lights/Can't Waste a Minute//
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19616 Angela Bofill - Too Tough [1983]
Too Tough/Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing/Tonight I Give In/You Could Come Take Me Home/Love You Too Much//
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19780 Milli Vanilli - Girl You Know It's True [1989]
Girl You Know It's True/Baby Don't Forget My Number/More Than You'll Ever Know/Blame It On The Rain/Take It As It Comes
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7E-1002 Carly Simon - Hotcakes [1974]
Safe and Sound/Mind On My Man/Think I'm Gonna Have a Baby/Older Sister/Just Not True/Hotcakes//
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A2l8601 Barry Manilow - Greatest Hits [1978](2 Lps)
Mandy/New York City Rhythm/Ready To Take A Chance Again/Looks Like We Made It/Daybreak/Can't Smile Without You/
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AB 4138S Stomu Yamashta - Go Too [1977]
Prelude/Seen You Before/Madness/Mysteries of Love//
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AB 4140 Dwight Twilley Band - Twilley Don't Mind [1977]
Twilley Don't Mind/Looking for the Magic/That I Remember/Rock & Roll 47/Trying to Find My Baby/Here She Comes/
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AB 4164 Barry Manilow - Even Now [1978]
Copacabana (At the Copa)/Somewhere in the Night/A Linda Song/Can't Smile Without You/Leavin' in the Morning/
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AB 4165 Striker - Striker [1978]
Think About It/Midnight Flyer/Wish/More Than Enough/On My Way/Hard On Me/Somebody Help Me/By Your Side/
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AB 4172 Strawbs - Deadlines [1978]
No Return/Joey and Me/Sealed With a Traitor's Kiss/I Don't Want to Talk About It/The Last Resort/
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AB 4183 Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen - Flying Dreams
Thank You, Lone Ranger/Cry Baby Cry/He's in Love [He's in Trouble]/Life is a Carnival/Talent Night at the Nashville Inn//
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AB 4190 Al Stewart - Time Passages [1977]
Time Passages/Valentina Way/Life In Dark Water/A Man For All Seasons/Almost Lucy/The Palace Of Versailles/
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AB 4223 Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks [1979]
Discovering Japan/Local Girls/Nobody Hurts You/You Can't Be Too Strong/Passion Is No Ordinary Word//
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AB 4230 Dionne Warwick - Dionne [1979]
I'll Never Love This Way Again/After You/Feeling Old Feelings/Deja Vu/The Letter/In Your Eyes/All The Time/
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AB 4240 The Kinks - Low Budget [1979]
Attitude/Catch Me Now I'm Falling/Pressure/National Health/(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman/Low Budget/
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AL 4031 Melissa Manchester - Melissa
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AL 4045 Tony Orlando and Dawn - Greatest Hits
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AL 4049 Bay City Rollers - Bay City Rollers
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AL 4050 Soundtrack - Monty Python and the Holy Grail Congratulations/Welcome To The Cinema; Opening/Coconuts; Bring Out Your Dead; King Arthur Meets Dennis/ Class Struggle; Witch Test; Professional Logician; Camelot/The Quest; The Silbury Hill Car Park; Frenchmen Of The Castle; Bomb Threat/Executive Announcement // Story Of The Film So Far; The Tale Of Sir Robin; The Knights Of Ni; Interview/ Director Carl French; Swamp Castle/The Guards/Tim; The Enchanter; Great Performances/Angry Crowd; Holy Hand Grenade; Announcement--Sir Kenneth Clark; French Castle Again; Close
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AL 4060 Barry Manilow - Trying to Get the Feeling
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AL 4067 Melissa Manchester - Better Days & Happy Endings
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AL 4089 The Monkees - The Monkees Greatest Hits
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AL 4090 Barry Manilow - This One's For You
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AL 4095 Melissa Manchester - Help Is On The Way
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AL 4106 The Kinks - Sleepwalker
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AL 8443 Carly Simon - Coming Around Again
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AL 8500 Barry Manilow - Live
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AL 8501 Original Broadway Cast - Beatlemania [1978] Need Information
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AL 9500 Original Sound Track - Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Need Information
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AL 9505 Barry Manilow - One Voice
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AL 9517 Graham Parker - The Up Escalator
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AL 9537 Barry Manilow - Barry
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AL 9574 Melissa Manchester - Hey Ricky
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AL 9589 Graham Parker - Another Grey Area
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AL 9599 Alan Parsons - Eye In The Sky
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AL 19612 Ray Parker, Jr. - Greatest Hits
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AL 6-5013 The Kinks - Sleepwalker [re-issue]
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AL 8-8023 Graham Parker - The Real Macaw
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AL 8-8040 Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
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AL 8-8194 Manfred Mann - Somewhere in Afrika
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AL 8-8212 Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston
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AL 8-8264 The Kinks - Word of Mouth
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AL 13-8041 The Kinks - One For The Road [1983]
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ADI-9547 Aretha Franklin - Jimmy Lee
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ADI-9780 Milli Vanilli - Girl You Know It's True
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ADI-9833 Milli Vanilli - Baby Don't Forget My Number
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ADP-9313 Krocus - S-12 Ballroom Blitz
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ARDP 3953 Promotional Babyface - There She Goes
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ASSX-0730 Pete Shelley - Telephone Operator
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JL 8213 Billy Ocean - Suddenly
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SP 101 Monty Python - Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Sampler [1980]
I Bet You They Won't Play This Song on the Radio/I like Chinese/Farewell to John Denver/Rock Notes/Decomposing Composers/
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