From Brass To Gold Volume II

Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss founded AM Records in 1962 with $200. In 1989, they sold the world's largest independent record label for nearly $500 million. From Brass to Gold is the rise of AM from its start with the Tijuana Brass to a golden success. AM and its 14 affiliated labels signed over 800 artists in every musical genre including the Carpenters, Quincy Jones, Styx, Supertramp, Burt Bacharach, Joe Cocker, Bryan Adams, Janet Jackson, George Winston, The Go-Go's, Carole King, Amy Grant, the Neville Brothers, and The Police.

AM's affiliates were George Harrison's Dark Horse Records, Windham Hill, Ode Records, IRS Records, Cypress Records, Delos, Denon, Gold Mountain Records, Nimbus Records, Perspective, Tabu, Vendetta Records, and Word Records. From Brass to Gold Vol. II assembles AM and affiliate discographies from 35 countries with major discographies for Great Britain, Canada, Germany and Japan.

Artist and title indexes are provided for each country. This is the only international discography of AM or it affiliates. Designed for record collectors, music lovers, music historians, and popular culture scholars and enthusiasts, and music retailers in discography format, it invites readers to research AM, an affiliate, a record series or an individual artist.

Review: To say that I was overwhelmed by From Brass to Gold is to put it mildly. What an amazing undertaking! Be assured that those of us who were at AM value your work greatly, have had frequent use for the information, and are genuinely appreciative of the time and effort you put into it. -Kip Cohen, President, Herb Alpert Foundation Former Vice President, AM Records