{"title":"Cleveland International Records","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCleveland International Records, founded in 1977 by a286540, is a legendary music label that has made an indelible mark on the industry. With a diverse roster of talented artists and performers, the label has consistently delivered groundbreaking music across various genres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKnown for its innovative approach to music production and promotion, Cleveland International Records has been at the forefront of discovering and nurturing emerging talent. The label's commitment to artistic integrity and creative freedom has allowed its artists to push boundaries and create truly memorable music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver the years, Cleveland International Records has released numerous critically acclaimed albums that have become iconic in their respective genres. From *Bruce Springsteen's* timeless classic \"Darkness on the Edge of Town\" to *Southside Johnny \u0026amp; The Asbury Jukes'* soulful masterpiece \"Hearts of Stone,\" the label's catalog is filled with timeless gems.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"american-babylon-25th-anniversary","title":"American Babylon (25th Anniversary)","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrushecky and his band had been a club fixture in the Northeast for nearly 25 years when they released American Babylon in 1995. The Pittsburgh band had proven themselves to be the consummate bar band with occasional flirtations with national success. American Babylon found them teaming up with Bruce Springsteen, who handles production, plays on several tracks, and wrote two songs for the album. The title track is an uptempo rocker detailing the disintegration of societal mores. There are plenty of songs outlining love gone wrong and the struggles of common folk, all delivered in Grushecky’s warm, well-worn voice over a barroom mixture of blues-based traditional rock. The 25th anniversary deluxe reissue edition will include LIVE tracks from the Houserockers’ legendary October Assault Tour recorded at an enthusiastic hometown show that same year.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cleveland International Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50475317133643,"sku":"1134821","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2c840a36-f467-46db-b2ae-56ee0822f39e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727446170"},{"product_id":"frank-yankovic-and-friends-songs-of-the-polka-king","title":"Frank Yankovic and Friends: Songs Of The Polka King","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"People talk a lot about alternative music, but polka’s the only alternative out there right now, so polka players are the hippest of the hip.” - Weird Al Yankovic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1986, it seemed only fitting that Yankovic won the first ever polka Grammy Award on Cleveland International Records (produced by Joey Miskulin and the mysterious Dragutin Razum) for it was he who had for so long bridged the ethnic gap between polka and the popular music forms which the Grammys represent. It is Frank Yankovic who perfectly blends the ethnic roots of polka music with popular influences, presenting a package that all of America can enjoy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSongs Of the Polka King\u003c\/i\u003e collects songs and artists fitting for the King. Weird Al Yankovic duets with Frank on \"Who Stole the Keeshka\" while Drew Carey duets with Frank on the \"Too Fat Polka\" and Joey Miskulin, Yankovic’s protégé, does the moving, award-winning “For Old Time’s Sake Waltz”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven now, as polka in America has evolved into many different regional, ethnic, and generational variants, it is Yankovic who remains the undisputed champion. And he did it all still with the same warm, regal smile which benefits the people’s king that he is and forever will be. This is an album all ages will enjoy singing and dancing to.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cleveland International Records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50475747803467,"sku":"1135999","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50475748720971,"sku":"1135998","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/99ab018f-df66-4760-98cf-c2bb28d192de_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727450187"},{"product_id":"live-in-cleveland-77","title":"Live In Cleveland '77","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes even had an album on the shelves, they were being played on the radio in Cleveland. That’s how far back the New Jersey band’s relationship goes with the city. As the “Jukes” part of their name would suggest, Southside Johnny and his group were spiritually a band from another time. They had a big sound (and a full horn section, courtesy of The Miami Horns) that conjured a vision of a large band, jammed together on the bandstand. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMixing carefully chosen blues and soul covers with their own originals (and some choice songwriting contributions from Bruce Springsteen), they had a live show that was even more potent than what had been laid to tape in the studio. This 1977 performance at the Cleveland Agora was the group’s second outing at the legendary venue in less than a year. \u003ci\u003eLive in Cleveland ‘77\u003c\/i\u003e, the recorded evidence of that night shows exactly why they would become frequent visitors and really, honorary Clevelanders. Cleveland got a special bonus round that other cities would have killed for. Ronnie Spector had joined the group in the studio as they recorded that debut and came to Cleveland to share the stage with the Jukes, sharing her soon-to-be-legendary take on Billy Joel’s “Say Goodbye to Hollywood” with the Agora crowd. 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With Open All Night giving the band a second album to draw on, their salty, wide-open Chuck Berry riff’n’roll was full swagger – whether drawing on their reprise of the Swinging Blue Jeans’ “Hippy Hippy Shake” from the Tom Cruise film “Cocktail,”Joe South’s swerving “Games People Play,” George Jones’ “White Lightnin’”or Jerry Lee Lewis’ all-out “Whole Lotta Shakin’.” Just as importantly, gap-toothed guitarist\/lead singer Dan Baird and combustive lead guitarist Rick Richards set the pummeling groove of drummer Mauro Magellan and bassist Rick Price ablaze. Delivering an 18-song masterclass in roots, rock and raunch, the Satellites not only incinerated “Battleship Chains,” “Railroad Steel” and “Can’t Stand The Pain,” they led the beyond SRO crowd through a shout-along of “Keep Your Hands To Yourself” threaded with a brazen stripper grind on the Rolling Stones’ “It’s Only Rock \u0026amp; Roll.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFans of reverb, thrashing drums, the rush of rock and roll momentum and all manners of electric guitars giving it over to basic 3 chord rock \u0026amp; roll, \u003ci\u003eLightin’ In A Bottle\u003c\/i\u003e retires the jersey. As the southern equivalent of the Replacements, the Ramones hillbilly (redneck) little brothers, no band delivered as much balls as the Satellites, who’ve never had an official live record. For a band who leaves it all onstage, that seems wrong. Leave it to Cleveland International to unearth this blistering recording, wipe off the sweat and somehow figure out how to get it all in one double disc package captured in the Rock \u0026amp; Roll Capital of the World. - Holly Gleason\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cleveland International","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50508539527499,"sku":"1146069","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/dc357591-4ff2-4c84-b24d-96d786ece8f0_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727859703"},{"product_id":"cleveland-rocks-2","title":"Cleveland Rocks","description":"\u003cp\u003ePerhaps only challenged by the opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, Cleveland hasn't to date rocked harder than it did in the '70s, when a record industry survey showed that more records were sold per capita in Cleveland than any place else in the country. During the early to mid-'70s, former Clevelander, Steve Popovich was having tremendous success working in promotion, then A\u0026amp;R for Epic Records in New York. By the mid-'70s, he was ready to step out on his own and returned to Cleveland, a city he loved, to set up his new Cleveland International Records. His intent was to discover and market artists to appeal to a grass roots, midwestern sensibility. Epic offered the departing executive a production deal—Cleveland International would find the artists and make the records, and once Epic approved the project, they would finance and distribute them. Ronnie Spector's cover of Billy Joel's Say Goodbye To Hollywood, was the label's initial release, and featured back-up by Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. The production, by E Street guitarist Miami Steve Van Zandt, sold 70,000 copies. At the same time, wheels were turning for what would become the label's first album release, first smash, and one of the best-selling records of all time—Meat Loa's \u003ci\u003eBat Out Of Hell\u003c\/i\u003e. In the summer of 1978, Cleveland International moved on to its second major project, Too Wild To Tame, an album by a no-frills hard rock band from Illinois called The Boyzz. Other releases followed in the next few years, including a solo effort from Meat Loaf songwriter Jim Steinman, three albums by Ellen Foley, who had served as Meat Loa's female foil on the opus 'Paradise By The Dashboard Light' and releases from Euclid Beach Band (produced by Raspberries' Eric  2 Carmen.) From Pittsburgh, a gritty, blue-collar town with a vibe similar to Cleveland's, came Joe Grushecky and the Iron City Houserockers, an album with English pop star Mike Berry, and a couple from The Rovers, whose 'Wasn't That A Party' became a radio staple.  Cleveland International also served as a marketing and management consultant for a number of acts, including Southside Johnny And The Asbury Jukes and former Mott The Hoople vocalist Ian Hunter, whose 'Cleveland Rocks' became part of a weekly Friday evening ritual on local radio, and eventually the theme to The Drew Carey Show. This compilation, initially released in 1995, captures that initial first rush of success and is a succinct look at what Popovich heard and saw on that midwestern landscape. It features some of the artists and songs that have come to define the first chapter of Cleveland International Records proving once and for all that Cleveland, does indeed, rock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Ronnie Spector and The E Street Band - Say Goodbye To Hollywood \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes - I Don’t Want To Go Home \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Just Us Girls - Time Warp \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. 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Live in Cleveland ‘77, the recorded evidence of that night, presented here for the first time by Cleveland International Records, shows exactly why they would become frequent visitors and really, honorary Clevelanders. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Songs like “I Don’t Want to Go Home,” Springsteen’s “The Fever,” “Havin’ a Party” and “Without Love” were already well- loved favorites with the local audience, thanks to frequent airplay on WMMS long before they even had an album. Cleveland got a special bonus round that other cities would have killed for. Ronnie Spector had joined the group in the studio as they recorded that debut and came to Cleveland to share the stage with the Jukes, sharing her soon-to-be- legendary take on Billy Joel’s “Say Goodbye to Hollywood” with the Agora crowd. As she did with so many songs, Spector made it her own. Southside Johnny and the Jukes continue to thrill audiences with their live performances worldwide to this day. 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