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Countdown Media, known as one of the world’s leading suppliers of high-quality music recordings,
has an international music catalogue containing over 150,000 sound recordings, covering a broad
variety of musical styles and formats. This catalogue is constantly updated with new recordings
by production studios located in the U.S., Mexico, the U.K, and Germany. Countdown has been
licensing its sound recordings around the world for over 35 years, and currently has offices located in
Hamburg, Germany and Los Angeles, California.
Countdown Media’s catalogues include the prestigious 101 Strings Orchestra catalogue, with over
10,000 recorded titles; original artist recordings of Pop, Rock’n Roll and Country hits from the 50s to
the 80’s; Jazz recordings from the 40s to the 70s and over 20,000 high quality recordings of classical
works. Moreover, Countdown’s repertoire includes both Soundalikes and Cover Versions from all
popular genres (Rock, Pop, R&B, Latin, Reggae, etc.) and in different formats, such as Karaoke
or Instrumental Versions; a comprehensive Film & Show Catalogue, containing the most famous
instrumental and vocal tracks from the realm of Movies/TV/Musical Theatre; as well as many other
musical genres, including World Music, Children’s Music, Holiday repertoire, Standards, and more.
One of the benefits of its wide-ranging catalogues that Countdown offers to its customers is over
5,000 ready-made compilation concepts, suitable for any type of physical or digital exploitation.
Countdown owns rights and licenses its catalogue of sound recordings worldwide for all types of
usage: Digital, synchronization, mobile, premium, and all other types of traditional and new media.
The Countdown Catalogue consists of more than 100,000 recordings, including cover versions
of international Hits, Movie TV & Musical soundtracks, Latin, Country, Children, World, Standards,
Christmas, German, Italian and French music and more repertoire from many other genres.
The 101 Strings Catalogue, containing around 10,000 recordings of well-known artists and
songwriters, TV and movie themes, songs from a variety of countries, and recordings of popularly
known standards. Countdown Media has re-mastered (utilizing 24-bit mastering techniques)
and digitized from the original tapes with state of the art equipment to provide the highest quality
standards.
The Vox Classical Catalogue offers more than 12,000 high quality recordings of Classical works. Its
repertoire ranges from the Medieval to Contemporary eras, including recordings by internationally
known artists, such as Alfred Brendel, Shura Cherkassky, Aaron Rosand, Igor Oistrakh, Ruggiero
Ricci and many others.
The Everest Catalogue includes the first recordings ever made in a 3-channel format, mostly with
the London Symphony, London Philharmonic, and Stadium Symphony (New York Philharmonic)
Orchestra. The catalogue also includes some of the great names in Jazz and Blues history, from Art
Blakey and the Jazz Messengers to Billie Holiday and Ray Charles.
The Mediaphon Catalogue completes Countdown’s wide range of Classical recordings, with such
artists as concert pianist Josef Bulva, the soprano Felicity Lott, and Orchestras such as the Orchestre
de la Suisse Romande or the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. To round out the musical spectrum, the
catalogue contains Folklore, Pop, Jazz, Musicals, children’s repertoire, Meditation and Sound Effects.
The Dobre Records Catalogue contains recordings by some of the finest musicians of the late
1970s US Jazz scene, including Mundell Lowe, Milcho Leviev, Laurindo Almeida, Herb Jeffries,
Roger, Kellaway, George Russell, Ruth Brown and others.
The iconic Sun Records Catalogue is now available for licensing through Countdown Media. The
label’s impressive roster of legendary artists that influenced American Music includes more than
6,500 master recordings of the likes of Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins,
Conway Twitty, Howlin Wolf and Junior Parker, among many others .
Countdown
Catalogue
Ten thousands of brand new and classic Pop
soundalike recordings covering almost any
musical style and hit in popular music history
PLUS all favourite children songs ranging from
lullabies to pop songs for kids, World Music from
many different countries as well as a great variety
of seasonal repertoire for Halloween, Valentine,
Sport and of course Christmas – from traditional
carols to the best known Xmas Pop Hits.
Halloween
Halloween
Soul
Soul
Italian
Italian
70 years of Pop Hits
70 years
of
Classic
Pop
Hits
Spanish
Latin German
Sports
Latin
R&B
Children
Sports
Valentine’s Day
German
Christmas
Spanish
Standards Rock
Latest
Chart Hits
Children
Standards Rock
Karaoke
Christmas
R&B
French
Valentine’s Day
Dance World Music
Country
Latest Chart Hits
French
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Countdown
Catalogue
Thousands of re-recorded themes and songs
from MOVIES, TV & MUSICALS … the catalogue
comprises music from soundtrack classics
such as Gone With The Wind and Titanic, the
complete themes from all James Bond movies,
all Academy Award winning songs from 1934 till
today PLUS music from latest blockbusters such
as The Twilight Saga, The Hobbit, Dark Knight
Rises and many more to come. Furthermore,
both classic and contemporary TV soundtracks
such as The Pink Panther, Dallas, Sex & The City to more recent shows as The Walking Dead are
available as well as a great variety of Musical productions from classic Broadway, Andrew Lloyd
Webber to more recent successes such as Mamma Mia!, The Book Of Mormon and Les Misérables,
just to name a few.
Western Thriller
Western
Adventure
Thriller
Disaster
ction
Hollywood
Comedy
Comedy
War
Crime
Crime
Action
Mystery
Soap
Opera
Soap
Opera
Broadway
Broadway
Sience Fiction Adventure
Sience
Fiction
Family
Fantasy
Animated
stery Family
Disaster
Animated
Fantasy
TV Classics
Horror
Horror
TV classics
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Hollywood
101 Strings
Orchestra
Catalogue
“The 101 Strings Orchestra is one of the most
productive and reliable names in instrumental
easy listening music” (AMG review)
This ensemble, founded by producer/engineer
David L. Miller, was introduced to the public on
Miller’s Somerset label in 1957. Miller found a
way to present the sound and style of orchestras
popular at the time, such as Mantovani, by hiring
fine European musicians, and made the 101
Strings Orchestra into a brand name. The 101 Strings Orchestra recorded hundreds of albums, mostly
either around a specific popular or cultural theme, some well-known artist or songwriter, a TV or
movie theme, songs originating from a particular country, or recordings of popularly-known standard
tunes. During its evolution over the past 50 years, the sound of the 101 Strings has been built on a
reverence for melody, a simple and fresh production, and a pleasant and relaxing atmosphere. The
original performances have been recorded under the most exacting audio engineering standards with
specially designed microphones. Countdown Media has re-mastered these sound recordings using
24-Bit mastering techniques, and digitized from the original tapes with state of the art equipment in
order to provide the highest quality standards.
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Everest
Catalogue
The Everest catalogue is one of the truly historic,
ground-breaking music catalogues of the past
half century. Everest created a number of
historical sonic and music benchmarks during
its early history in the 1950s and 60s. Not only
was it one of the first “World Music” labels (predating such labels as Nonesuch) with its Olympic
imprint, containing examples of everything from
Portuguese Fado to “Flute Music of the Andes”,
but Everest was the first, and one of only two
labels (with the historic Mercury Living Presence to follow) to record in a 3-channel sound field,
mostly with the London Symphony, London Philharmonic, and New York Philharmonic (using the
moniker of the “Stadium Symphony Orchestra”, due to contractual obligations). Some of the famed
conductors active during the middle of the 20th century, including Leopold Stokowski, Sir Malcom
Sargent and Sir Adrian Boult, were responsible for these groundbreaking recordings, imprinted on
35mm video tape (also a landmark accomplishment, which would hearken the arrival a decade later
of the usage of 2-inch master tape for studio recording).
Everest’s wide-ranging repertoire not only included world music and audiophile Classical recordings,
but also some of the greatest names in Jazz and Blues, from Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers to
Billie Holiday and Ray Charles. These and other novelty recordings (including a great Swiss yodeling
album!) are descriptive of what has become a heritage audiophile and historically significant label,
for now and in the future.
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Original
Artists
Kenny Rogers
Judy Collins
Patsy Cline
Dolly Parton
Bill Haley & The Comets
Ray Charles
Billie Holiday
Cy Coleman
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
George Shearing
Bebo Valdés
Sabicas
Nelson Riddle
Les Baxter
The Surfers
Dillard Crume and The Soul Rockers
The Jordanaires
Sam & Dave
Drifters
Carla & Rufus Thomas
Cissy Houston
Lesley Gore
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Billy Joe Royal
Faron Young
Skeeter Davis
Dave Dudley
Johnny Paycheck
Mac Wiseman
Lynn Anderson
Jimmy & The Parrots
Toots and the Maytals
Sugar Minott
Big Mountain
Ace Cannon
Celtic Ladies
Marco Rizo
Vic Damone
Chalice
Thelonius Monk
Roy Drusky
Liz Anderson
Jack Greene
Jerry Wallace
Greta Keller
Sugar Black
The Vogues
Melba Montgomery
Eugen Cicero
Gary Puckett
Ernie Ashworth
Nat Stuckey
Mary Wells
David Houston
Celeste Rodrigues
Eddie Bert
Red Simpson
Russ Morgan
Dizzy Gillespie
Jo Jones
Gene Ammons
Autry Inman
Buddy Cole
Chris Barber
Freddy Weller
The Association
Wilma Burgess
Sandy Posey
Ferlin Husky
Gregory Isaacs
Tommy Overstreet
And many more…
Menuetto
Classics
Countdown Media’s digital label for Classical
Music, founded in 2009, represents music from
renowned classical catalogues VOX MUSIC,
MEDIAPHON, ALSHIRE and EVEREST, and
includes recordings by Alfred Brendel, the
London Symphony Orchestra, the New York
Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra,
the Vienna Volksoper Orchestra, the Cincinnati
Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel, Leopold Stokowski,
Michael Gielen, Jascha Horenstein, Maurice
Abravanel, Walter Susskind, Leonard Slatkin, Aaron Rosand, Ruggiero Ricci, Peter Frankl, Helmut
Rilling, Abbey Simon, Shura Cherkassky, Walter Klien, Frank Glazer, Ivan Moravec, Manuel Barrueco,
the Tokyo String Quartet, the Fine Arts Quartet, just to name a few.
The Menuetto label catalogue comprises of more than 20.000 high-class recordings, re-mastered
and available for licensing.
With constant chart presence of its digital releases on the Classical Charts on iTunes, Amazon and
other digital music stores, MENUETTO CLASSICS has become one of the leading digital classical
music labels.
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Sun
Entertainment
Catalogue
The iconic Sun Records catalogue is now
available for licensing through Countdown
Media. The label’s impressive roster of legendary
artists that influenced American Music includes
more than 6,500 master recordings of the likes
of Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis,
Carl Perkins, Conway Twitty, Howlin Wolf and
Junior Parker, among many others.
The Sun Entertainment Catalogue contains
masters from the labels Sun Record Company, Plantation Records, SSS International (“Harper Valley
PTA”), Red Bird, Blue Cat, Blue Fox, and a few others. Founded by Sam Phillips in Memphis in 1952,
the Sun Record Company became quickly a home for many talented musicians of the rich and diverse
musical scene in and around Memphis at that time. Prior to the big Rockabilly & Rock’n Roll records,
Sun recorded mostly black musicians, for Phillips loved R&B and wanted to bring black music to a
white audience. Still, he was not limiting himself to one genre or style but recorded whatever he
thought people would love to hear, gospel, blues, hillbilly, country, boogie, and western. In 1954 Sam
Phillips found Elvis Presley who helped form the Sun Sound by mixing Country music with R&B. The
success of Elvis (his recording contract was sold to RCA Victor in 1955) attracted other great talent to
the label including Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins. These four soon became known
as the Million Dollar Quartet. More legendary label mates include Roy Orbison, Charlie Rich, Bill
Justis, Harold Jenkins (a.k.a. Conway Twitty) and other equally memorable musical talents who made
their way to the Pop, R&B and Country charts. Sun Records contributed to the rise and popularity of
20th century Rock’n Roll and influenced many younger musicians, particularly the Beatles.
In 1969, Shelby Singleton (former producer at Mercury) purchased the Sun label from Phillips.
Singleton merged his own labels into Sun International Corporation and started to re-release and
re-package compilations of Sun‘s early artists. John Singleton, Shelby’s brother and partner for many
years, oversees the business affairs of Sun today.
Countdown is proud to offer the master recordings of this renowned catalogue to its customers.
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recordings also appear in:
Movie & TV
Madagascar 3 (Dreamworks)
Puss In Boots (Dreamworks)
Maneater
in: The Secret Life A Thousand Words
(Dreamworks)
Of Walter Mitty
(20th Century Fox The Terminal (Dreamworks)
This Is 40 (Universal
Film Corporation)
Pictures)
Disney’s Share The Magic
(Walt Disney Studio Motion
Mozart: Variations Pictures)
House (Universal Network
for Piano, K. 265
Television)
in: The Butler
The Good Wife
(Geoffrey Stanley
(CBS Television)
Productions)
Hit and Run (Open Road
Films)
Fringe (Warner Bros
Amada Mia,
Television)
Amore Mio
The Whole Truth (Warner
in: To Rome
Bros Television)
With Love
The Big Bang Theory (Warner
(Perdido
Bros Television)
Productions)
Two And A Half Men (Warner
Bros Television)
Pavane pour une Memphis Beat (Warner
Bros Television)
infante défunte
Modern Family
in: The Dark
(ABC Television)
Knight Rises
Rookie Blue (ABC Television)
(Warner Bros.
Glee (20th Century Fox
Studios)
Television)
American Horror Story
(20th Century Fox Television)
Last Man Standing (20th
Century Fox Television)
The Simpsons (20th Century
Fox Television)
The Roosevelts” – Ken Burns
documentary (Florentine
Films)
American Idol (Fremantle
Media)
Hitchcock (Geoffrey Stanley
Productions)
Eastbound and Down (HBO)
CBS Sports
TV Commercials
Pepsi (China)
Samsung (S.Korea)
Baskin-Robbins (S. Korea)
Apple Inc (USA)
Cerveja Itaipava (Brazil)
New York Times (Turkey)
Stroili Oro (Italy)
Nissan Corporate (Greece)
LoveFilm (UK)
Tetley Tea (UK)
Renault Koleos (World)
3 (Sweden)
KiMs (Denmark)
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