Sentence examples for straight records from inspiring English sources

The group's first two albums, Pretties for You (1969) and Easy Action (1970), appeared on Frank Zappa's Straight Records label, and failed to find an audience.

Zappa had already moved on to his own companies Bizarre Records and Straight Records which were distributed by Warner Bros. Records.

He and Herb Cohen formed the Bizarre Records and Straight Records labels, distributed by Warner Bros. Records, as ventures to aid the funding of projects and to increase creative control.

With a debut album released on Frank Zappa's Straight Records label (Pretties for You) in 1969, the band soon broke into the mainstream with hits like "Eighteen," "Under My Wheels" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy" on albums like Love It to Death, Killer, School's Out, Billion Dollar Babies and Muscle of Love.

He's a musician who not only produced subversive music with ramshackle jingles, experimental compositions, and comically cutting lyrics, but he also helped expose new talent with his Straight Records label like his old school buddy Captain Beefheart, along with Tim Buckley and Alice Cooper.

Yet this memoir is more than a straight record of achievement.

Despite the boycott, the red kettles have had three straight record years for fund-raising, Mr. Hood says.

But the total number of people receiving jobless benefits climbed to 6.35 million, a 14th straight record week.

Chinese stocks rallied to a fourth straight record.

Rather than just straight recording on top of an audio track like in Dubsmash, songs are accompanied with lyrics to make it possible to record in one take.

Social media star Shawn Mendes roared to No. 1 with "Illuminate," his second straight record to hit the top.