Millennium Records is a defunct record label run by record producer
Jimmy Ienner
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Biography
He went to Stamford (Connecticut) High School and graduated in 1963. He ...
from
1976
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to 1983. During its RCA-distributed years, a significant portion of its output was content licensed from Canadian record labels.
Hits
The label's best-selling artist was electronic music pioneer
Meco
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, whose disco cover of
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Star Wars
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'' was a number 1 hit in 1977. In 1978, Meco followed up with two more movie-inspired hits for the label: a number 25 hit "Theme From Close Encounters" and a number 35 hit "Themes From The Wizard of Oz".
In 1981, Don McLean had three hits on the Millennium label: "
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" which peaked at number 5; a number 23 song, "
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" and a number 36 song, " Castles in the Air".
Between 1981 and 1982, the band Franke & the Knockouts had three top 100 hits on Millennium: " Sweetheart" at number 10, "You're My Girl" at number 27, and "Without You" at number 24.
Millennium is noteworthy for having passed on signing
Madonna
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in 1981.
Artists
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Lori Lieberman
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Don McLean
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Meco
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Joey Travolta
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