Shout! Factory

Shout! Factory

and Rhino executive) and Garson Foos (former Rhino executive) initially as a specialty music label. It focuses on enriched music catalog reissues, home video/DVD projects, and television properties.

Conceived as a retro pop culture label, Shout! Factory DVD projects include live music shows (by acts such as X, The Blasters, Heart, and Barenaked Ladies), music documentaries (The Fearless Freaks, about The Flaming Lips, and The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, about The Sex Pistols), animation (including multiple Home Movies seasons, Pucca, and Code Monkeys), live-action television (Freaks and Geeks, My So-Called Life, Inside the Actors Studio), as well as productions by DIC), including Mario Brothers, Legend of Zelda, and Sonic the Hedgehog, and sports (including Major League Baseball and Warren Miller (director) ski titles).

Shout! Factory CD and music DVD products are distributed by Sony Music Entertainment and as of June 2007 their nonmusic DVD titles are distributed by Vivendi.

Shout! Factory currently has a long term distribution deal with DIC Entertainment for most of the latter company's catalog.

Related companies

GetBack.com was created in 2007 by Shout! Factory executives Richard Foos, Garson Foos, and Bob Emmer, as well as media veterans from IFILM and MTV Networks. Targeting the 35-55 year old demographic, GetBack.com is a broadband entertainment community, content aggregator, and pop culture marketplace defining the spirit of the 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s. GetBack.com lets users rediscover popular entertainment, fashion, and pop-culture moments from their youth, and build community through easy to discover pre-populated content sets related to the music, film, TV and games of the era. GetBack.com will also create a marketplace for collectables, reissues, and new content from nostalgia artists

Natural Energy Lab, Shout! Factory's film and TV licensing business, is run by Danny Benair.

In 2006 Shout! Factory acquired a music television production company, Blaze Television, which produces DIRECTV's CD USA show, as well as many live music shows.

Artists released

*Herb Alpert
*Asleep at the Wheel
*Chet Baker
*The Blasters
*Lenny Bruce
*Harold Budd
*Solomon Burke
*Bootsy Collins
*Jessi Colter
*John Coltrane
*Jim Croce
*Bing Crosby
*Rev. Gary Davis
*Dirty Dozen Brass Band
*Fats Domino
*Ronnie Earl
*Duke Ellington
*Emerson, Lake & Palmer (US and Canada)
*The Flaming Lips
*Freedy Johnston
*Roky Erickson
*Kinky Friedman
*Bobbie Gentry
*George Gershwin
*Dizzy Gillespie
*Dexter Gordon
*Heart
*Howard Hewett
*Peter Himmelman
*John Lee Hooker
*Son House
*Skip James
*Scott Joplin
*Furry Lewis
*Local H
*Keiko Matsui
*The Kingston Trio
*Marshall Tucker Band
*Mississippi Fred McDowell
*Blind Willie McTell
*Johnny Maestro

*Charles Mingus
*Joni Mitchell
*Maria Muldaur
*Particle
*Tom Paxton
*Cole Porter
*Howard Tate
*The Pretty Things
*Ma Rainey
*Johnny Rivers
*Shannon
*William Shatner
*Slade
*Slightly Stoopid
*Hubert Sumlin
*Keith Sweat
*Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs
*This American Life compilations
*Mel Tormé
*The Turtles
*Violent Femmes
*Johnny "Guitar" Watson
*Bukka White
*X
*Buckwheat Zydeco
*The Firesign Theatre

Television series releases

*"Adam-12"
*"The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
*""
*"Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog"
*"The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3"
*"All American Girl"
*"America's Funniest Home Videos"
*"Batfink"
*"The Bill Cosby Show"
*"Bob and Rose"
*"Bump in the Night"
*""
*"Captain N and the New Super Mario World"
*"Code Monkeys"
*"C.O.P.S."
*"Dinosaur King"
*"The Dick Cavett Show"
*"The Electric Company"
*"Father Knows Best"
*The Film Crew (comprised of former "MST3K" alumni Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett)
*"Freaks and Geeks"
*"Greg the Bunny"
*"Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats"
*"Here's Lucy"
*"Home Movies"
*"Hootenanny"
*"Ironside"
*"Inside the Actors Studio"
*"Inspector Gadget"
*"Jane and the Dragon"
*"Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors"
*"The Job"
*"The Johnny Carson Show"
*"Liberty's Kids"
*"Maggie and the Ferocious Beast"
*"McHale's Navy"
*"Medabots"
*"Men Behaving Badly"
*"Milton the Monster"
*"Miracles"
*"My So-Called Life"
*"Mystery Science Theater 3000"
*"Oban Star-Racers"
*"Prom Queen"
*"Pucca"
*"Punky Brewster"
*"Sabrina, the Animated Series"
*"SCTV"
*"Sesame Street"
*"Significant Others"
*"Sonic the Hedgehog"
*"Sonic Underground"
*"Son of the Beach"
*"Spin City"
*"Sports Night"
*"Stargate Infinity"
*"Swamp Thing"
*"The Airborne Toxic Event"
*"The Legend of Zelda"
*"The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"
*"The Tomorrow Show"
*"That Girl"
*"Undeclared"
*"Upright Citizens Brigade"
*"The Weird Al Show"
*"Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?"
*"World Poker Tour"
*"You Bet Your Life"

ee also

*Majordomo Records - an indie record label formed as an imprint and partnership with Shout! Factory

External links

* [http://www.shoutfactory.com Official site]


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