Founded 1974 Distributor(s) self-distributed Country of origin United States | Defunct 1978 (closed down) Genre Rock, Pop music, Disco Founder Larry Uttal | |
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Parent company 43 North Broadway, LLC. Artists Blondie, Frankie Valli, Walter Murphy, Samantha Sang, Cissy Houston Albums Blondie, Think It Over, Fresh Fish Special, It's Better Than Working, Cissy Houston | ||
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Private Stock Records was a record label that operated from 1974 to 1978.
The label was founded by Larry Uttal after he was ousted from Bell Records. The label primarily focused on pop music and had numerous hit records, many of them one-hit wonders, including singles by David Soul of Starsky and Hutch fame ("Don't Give Up on Us"), Starbuck ("Moonlight Feels Right"), Austin Roberts ("Rocky"), Samantha Sang ("Emotion"), Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band ("A Fifth of Beethoven"), Cyndi Grecco ("Making Our Dreams Come True," a.k.a. the theme song to Laverne & Shirley) and Frankie Valli ("My Eyes Adored You", "Swearin' To God", "Our Day Will Come"). The label also released Brownsville Station's album with the same name, and the singles "The Martian Boogie" and "(Lady) Put the Light on Me" in 1977.
Blondie's eponymous debut album—which was not a commercial success at the time—was also originally issued on Private Stock in 1976, as were two final single releases by Junior Campbell. Singer-songwriter Tom Paxton's 1975 album, Something in My Life and Rupert Holmes' fourth album, Pursuit of Happiness were also released by the label. Peter Lemongello released one album for Private Stock after his successful debut Love '76. However, the Love '76 album was never released by Private Stock. Gospel/soul singer Cissy Houston (mother of singer Whitney Houston) released two albums on the label- 1977's Cissy Houston and 1978's Think It Over.
The label closed down when Uttal moved to London; he later returned to New York where he died in 1993. His son Jai Uttal owned the rights to the catalogue after his father's death.