Sony Music’s RCA Records will relaunch the Jive label as a stand-alone company under the direction of Mike Weiss and David Melhado, who until recently were EVPs at United Masters, it was announced today.
Jive, of course, was the blockbuster label launched by Clive Calder in 1981 as a subsidiary of the Zomba company he co-founded with Ralph Simon. While the label initially saw success with new wave acts like A Flock of Seagulls, and, with its U.S. operation overseen by a young Barry Weiss, early hip-hop act Whodini, it soon because a rap powerhouse with DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince (aka Will Smith), A Tribe Called
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