Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1958 as the recorded music division of the American film studio Warner Bros.
The Residents have had a number of dealings with Warner Bros. Records over the length of their history, beginning when they submitted two demo tapes, The W***** B*** Album and B.S., to executive Hal Halverstadt in 1971. 
The group would eventually release their serial drama The River of Crime through subsidiary label Cordless Recordings in 2006.
==History with The Residents==
In 1971 the group that would become The Residents submitted two demo tapes, The Warner Bros. Album and Baby Sex, to Warner Bros. Records director of merchandising Hal Halverstadt, who politely rejected the group's confrontational but earnest efforts (inadvertantly inspiring the group's name in the process).
Halverstadt would maintain correspondence with The Residents on an occasional basis even after losing his job in an "industry-wide purge" in the mid-1970s.Uncle Willie's Highly Opinionated Guide To The Residents
Warner Bros. Records eventually would publish music by The Residents and various other Ralph Records artists in the UK between 1981 and 1985, and also published Tweedles! in the UK in 2006. The Residents briefly became part of the Warner Bros. roster in that year, when they released their serial drama The River of Crime on subsidiary label Cordless Recordings.
== Residents-related releases ==
Artist 	Release 	Year	Catalogue 	Notes
Snakefinger 	Chewing Hides The Sound 	1981	LINK16 	"The Vultures Of Bombay" Published By
The Residents	Intermission 	1983	RALPH1 	UK Publishing
The Residents	Ralph Before '84: Volume I 	1984	KODE10 	UK Publishing
 	Ralph Before '84: Volume II 	1984	KODE12 	UK Publising on various tracks
The Residents	George & James 	1984	RZ-8402 	UK Publishing
The Residents	PAL TV LP 	1985	DVR17 	UK Publishing
 	Ritual: Magnetic North 	1985	T5 	UK Publishing on Residents tracks
The Residents	The King & Eye 	1989	773547-2 	Publishing on "Stuck On You"
Primus 	Miscellaneous Debris 	1992	96208-2 	Manufactured and distributed
Primus 	Wynona's Big Brown Beaver 	1995	6544957762	Distributed and Manufactured By
 	Circuit (5) - This Is Music DVD - All You Can Eat	2000	36945 	DVD that features The Residents
The Residents	Tweedles 	2006	CDSTUMM282	UK Publishing
The Residents	80 Aching Orphans 	2017	NRTBOX1 	Publishing on various tracks
The Residents	Commercial Album 	2019	NRT009 	Publishing on "We're A Happy Family"
The Residents	Dreaming Of An Eyeball Beaming 	2019	SR16 	UK Publishing
==See also==
*The W***** B*** Album
*Hal Halverstadt
*Cordless Recordings
==External links and references==
*Warner Bros. Records at Wikipedia
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