11 Facts About ABKCO

Until 2009, ABKCO administered Philles Records and its master recordings, including hits by the Righteous Brothers, the Ronettes, the Crystals and others .

ABKCO Records is currently distributed by Universal Music Distribution, which controls distribution of the Rolling Stones' post-ABKCO catalog through Polydor Records and Interscope Records.

ABKCO Industries was founded in 1968 as an umbrella company involved in management, music publishing, film, TV and theatrical production.

Later that year, ABKCO acquired the Cameo-Parkway Records catalog along with a manufacturing facility which the company later used to produce records by several of its artists, including the Beatles and Rolling Stones.

ABKCO sat on the entire catalog of music from artists such as Bobby Rydell and Chubby Checker.

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ABKCO is active in the release of compilations and reissues from its catalogs, film and commercial placement of its master recordings and music publishing properties.

Jody Klein, president of ABKCO, has been credited in the liner notes of the recordings in not only getting the Cameo-Parkway recordings finally released, but overseeing an extensive remastering of the Rolling Stones, the Animals, Herman's Hermits, and Sam Cooke's 1960s recordings.

At some point after the contract was terminated, ABKCO sued the group, a suit resolved in 1977 when the Beatles paid ABKCO $4.

At the time, ABKCO was managing work released by Harrison, as well as other material by the Beatles, which meant that they were defendants in the case; that is, until ABKCO made a successful motion to acquire Bright Tunes and all of their copyrights, after years of negotiation.

ABKCO sued The Verve over their song "Bitter Sweet Symphony", which samples The Andrew Oldham Orchestra recording of "The Last Time" by The Rolling Stones.

In July 2008, ABKCO filed a lawsuit against Lil Wayne for copyright infringement and unfair competition, specifically referring to the track "Playing with Fire" on his album Tha Carter III.