Rhino Entertainment

Category:Record labels\nRhino Entertainment is a specialty record label originally known for releasing retrospectives of famous comedy performers, including Stan Freberg, Tom Lehrer, and Spike Jones. But in recent years, Rhino has also been a full-fledged entertainment unit specializing in home video re-issues of television shows such as The Lone Ranger and My Favorite Martian, and compact disc releases of select artists and movie soundtracks. In the 1990s, Rhino became part of the Time Warner company, and thus had access to the music libraries of Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros (and its recording subsidiaries). It is through this merger that the label has released remastered editions of collections from such bands as Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Yes, The Doobie Brothers, and The Doors, as well as soundtracks spanning the Turner-owned pre-1986 MGM and pre-1948 WB periods, as well as WB's own post-1948 period. Among Rhino's soundtrack releases: The Wizard Of Oz, North By Northwest, Casablanca, King Kong, and Superman. Rhino also owns the rights to The Monkees (which they acquired from Columbia Pictures in the late 1980s), and thus has released home videos and CDs from the group. All of Rhino's retrospective compact disc releases are characterized by very good sound quality and booklets with comprehensive photos and well-informed background notes.\nCategory:Time Warner subsidiaries