Red Bird Records

[2] The label's first release was "Chapel of Love" by the Dixie Cups, which quickly reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, a feat matched later that year by the Shangri-Las' "Leader of the Pack".

[3] Eleven of the first 30 singles released by Red Bird reached the Top Forty.

[4] They used the skillful Brill Building husband-and-wife songwriting team of Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, who had been writing most of Phil Spector's first hits.

The label was sold in 1966 as Leiber and Stoller preferred to write and produce rather than manage the business of running a label, and after they had a falling-out with Goldner[5] whose gambling debts caused Red Bird to be taken over by the Mafia.

[6] A subsidiary label, Blue Cat Records, had a hit with "The Boy from New York City" by The Ad Libs.