| Longhorns & Londonbridges | ||||
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| Released | 1974 | |||
| Recorded | 1974 | |||
| Studio | The Record Plant, New York City | |||
| Genre | Pop rock, country rock, rhythm and blues | |||
| Label | Paramount | |||
| Producer | Al Gorgoni, Steve Tyrell | |||
| B. J. Thomas chronology | ||||
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Longhorns & Londonbridges is a 1974 album by B. J. Thomas, released on Paramount Records, during the time when rights to the Paramount Records name were owned by Paramount Pictures. It is commonly misidentified as Longhorn & London Bridges. [1]
Longhorns and Londonbridges was the second and final album that Thomas recorded for Paramount Records, following the end of his six-year relationship with Scepter Records in 1972. The record was released in the same year that Paramount Pictures sold its rights in the Paramount Records label to ABC Records, [2] which in turn was sold to MCA Records in 1979. At this point, ABC Records was dissolved as an independent record label, with only the best-selling ABC recordings being reissued on MCA Records. In a twist of irony, MCA via subsidiaries Universal Studios and EMKA, Ltd., already owned the rights to most sound feature films released by Paramount Pictures prior to 1950. [3]
The distribution and sales of many records released during this period of significant label transitions (1974-1979) were negatively affected. Thomas' album releases during this period were all on the Paramount, ABC and MCA labels, [4] and so were similarly affected. While Thomas was to continue with degrees of success in the release of singles, [5] no singles were released from Longhorns & Londonbridges and its chart success was marginal. [6] It was not reissued by MCA Records and has not been reissued on CD. [7]
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