Artie Ripp

Ripp began his career as a singer, initially informally harmonizing rock and roll songs with friends from high school. In 1957, Ripp formed an official singing group with neighborhood friends; the group was signed by ABC-Paramount Records as backup singers for ABC solo artists. The singers sang backup for Paul Anka on his 1957 hit "Diana" and broke up shortly thereafter.{{cite web|title=The Four Temptations (ABC Records)|url=http://whitedoowopcollector.blogspot.com/2009/01/four-temptationsrock-roll-baby.html|website=Whitedoowopcollector.blogspot.com|date=January 26, 2009 |accessdate=October 26, 2015}}

Ripp rejoined with some of his informal singing partners (Mario "Skippy" Scarpa, Stu Silverman, and Joe Tedesco) to form "The Four Temptations". The quartet wrote its own songs and was signed by ABC-Paramount Records, which released the group's first single in 1958. The A-side, "Cathy" (named after Scarpa's newly born niece), was written by Scarpa and Ripp; the B-side was "Rock & Roll Baby", written by Scarpa, Ripp, and Silverman. When the group rejected opportunities offered by the record company to record others' songs, the record company withheld further recording opportunities, and the group disbanded.

Ripp shifted from performing to being behind-the-scenes in the music business. About his potential as a performer, Ripp states, "I sucked. I was no Elvis Presley and I wasn't a writer."{{cite book|last1=Bordowitz|first1=Hank|title=Billy Joel: The Life & Times of an Angry Young Man|date=2006|publisher=Billboard Books|isbn=0823082482|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kgY9C3bfshMC&q=artie+ripp&pg=PA43|page=43|accessdate=June 30, 2015}} Additionally, Ripp states, "I started walking around Broadway and I'd see these kids who were making records and not getting paid. They could have a number one record on the charts and end up owing the record company a half a million dollars ... I thought, 'This business has some system.' ..."{{cite book|last1=Bordowitz|first1=Hank|title=Dirty Little Secrets of the Record Business: Why So Much Music You Hear Sucks|date=2007|publisher=Chicago Review Press, Inc.|location=Chicago, Illinois|page=4|url=http://boomerthedog.net/radio/record-business.pdf|accessdate=October 30, 2015}}

In 1958, Ripp targeted George Goldner to be a potential mentor. Goldner, based in New York City, was a music industry entrepreneur who owned copyrights, produced records, and owned record companies. Goldner was, in the words of American blues singer and songwriter Jerome "Doc" Pomus, a "very hip, New York kind of tough guy."{{cite book|last1=Ribowsky|first1=Mark|title=He's a Rebel: Phil Spector--Rock and Roll's Legendary Producer|date=1989|publisher=Cooper Square Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-8154-1044-7|page=68|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WKaQgGo9USYC&pg=PA68|accessdate=November 13, 2015}} After Ripp spent weeks informally observing Goldner at work, Goldner formally hired Ripp to be a go-fer.

Ripp worked with songwriter and producer Richard Barrett{{cite web|title=Artie Ripp: Song Writer & Producer of Many Great Performers, Groups and Songwriters over a 50 year span|url=http://homegrownmusicpublishing.com/index.php/artie-ripp|website=Homegrownmusicpublishing.com|accessdate=January 15, 2016}} within Goldner's organization, where Ripp got a "street education in the record business equal to none".{{cite web|last1=Hyde|first1=Bob|title=The Kama Sutra/Buddah Records Story|url=http://www.bsnpubs.com/buddah/buddahstory.html|website=Bsnpubs.com|accessdate=November 11, 2015}} Ripp learned how Goldner worked a studio, structured a record contract, and got records played on the radio.

Functioning as manager instead of performer, Ripp put together the New York vocal group "The Temptations", (formed at least a year before the name was used by the different and better-known Motown group). Ripp's Temptations recorded for Goldner's Goldisc Records; its three singles were released in 1960 and 1961. The song "Barbara" charted nationally, reaching number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the spring of 1960.{{cite web|title=THE TEMPTATIONS aka NEIL STEVENS & THE TEMPTATIONS|url=http://whitedoowopcollector.blogspot.com/2009/02/neil-stevens-temptationstonight-my.html|website=Whitedoowopcollector.blogspot.com|date=February 5, 2009 |accessdate=October 26, 2015}}

Ripp quickly rose in the music publishing, recording, and distribution business. In 1961, after Goldner transferred his Gone and End record labels to music industry executive Morris Levy,{{cite book|last1=Emerson|first1=Ken|title=Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era|date=2005|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-1-101-15692-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H7N3tPSny6AC&q=%22artie+ripp%22+%2B%22morris+levy%22&pg=PT125|accessdate=July 22, 2016}} Ripp became national promotion director at Nevins/Kirshner Associates, Inc., founded by Al Nevins and Don Kirshner.{{cite journal|last1=Rolontz|first1=Bob|title=Music as Written: New York|journal=Billboard Music Week|date=December 25, 1961|page=25|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kSAEAAAAMBAJ&q=artie+ripp&pg=PA25|accessdate=October 22, 2015}} (The company was the parent of Dimension Records and its music publishing division Aldon Music (BMI).{{cite web|title=Biography - Dimension|url=http://www.45cat.com/about/dimension|website=45cat.com|accessdate=November 13, 2015}} Aldon, located at 1650 Broadway in Manhattan,{{cite news|last1=Hollander|first1=Sophia|title=NY Culture: Another Rock 'n' Roll Birthplace|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/another-rock-n-roll-birthplaceat-1650-broadway-1419546782|accessdate=October 24, 2015|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=December 25, 2014}} played a significant role in shaping the so-called "Brill Building Pop" sound of the late 1950s and early 1960s.) In 1962, Ripp partnered with music publisher Aaron "Goldie" Goldmark and was named vice president of three of Goldmark's newly established businesses: Goldie Records, Inc., Armada Music, Inc. (ASCAP), and Fredella Music, Inc. (BMI) (which were together known as Goldmark Music, Ltd. in association with Chappell, Ltd.). During the summer of 1962, Goldmark and Ripp collaborated to generate worldwide distribution arrangements that were described by Billboard as having "angles never before achieved in the business."{{cite journal|title=Goldmark in Own Business with Art Ripp|journal=Billboard Music Week|date=July 14, 1962|page=14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lRcEAAAAMBAJ&q=artie+ripp&pg=PA1|accessdate=October 22, 2015}}

In 1963, Ripp produced "Just One Look" for Doris Troy.{{cite web|title=Atlantic Rhythm and Blues 1947-1974: Volume Five|url=http://aln2.albumlinernotes.com/Atlantic_-_Volume_Five.html|website=Albumlinernotes.com|accessdate=January 14, 2016|archive-date=October 29, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101029180504/http://aln2.albumlinernotes.com/Atlantic_-_Volume_Five.html|url-status=dead}} The song peaked at number ten on the Billboard pop chart{{cite web|title=Billboard The Hot 100: The Week of July 27, 1963|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1963-07-27|website=Billboard.com|accessdate=January 14, 2016}} and at number three on the Rhythm and Blues chart.{{cite book|editor1-last=Peno|editor1-first=Gaswomi|title=Bad Religion: The Complete Guide|page=79|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zrD_CgAAQBAJ&q=billboard%20just%20one%20look%20doris%20troy&pg=PA79}} It was listed as one of the 7,500 most important songs of the Rock-n-Roll era and was covered by The Hollies as their first single.{{cite book|last=Pollock|first=Bruce|title=Rock Song Index|date=2005|publisher=Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group|location=New York|isbn=0-415-97073-3|page=199|edition=2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GxYiAwAAQBAJ|accessdate=January 14, 2016}}

In 1963, when Goldmark was selected to head Premier Albums' newly established publishing and master-production operations, Ripp followed and was named chief of "A&R" (Artists and Repertoire) for Premier's subsidiary, Award Music, which was the master-production business.{{cite magazine|title=Goldie Signs On With Premier|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cQsEAAAAMBAJ&q=goldie+signs+on+with+premier&pg=PA6|magazine=Billboard|date=February 16, 1963|page=6|accessdate=October 22, 2015}} As A&R Chief, Ripp signed singer Carl Dobkins Jr. Also under contract with Award during Ripp's tenure were Jimmy Jones and The Hollywood Flames, both of whom were on the Vee-Jay record label.{{cite magazine|title=Industry Briefs: Award Inks Dobkins|magazine=Billboard|date=July 13, 1963|page=6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XQsEAAAAMBAJ&q=artie+ripp&pg=PA6|accessdate=October 28, 2015}}

{{main|Kama Sutra Records}}

In 1964, Ripp joined Hy Mizrahi and Phil Steinberg in Kama Sutra, initially an independent production company based in New York. As a production house, the company established a "consistent and impressive track record" in the singles market;{{cite magazine|title=Col., K-S Pact Reflects Inroads|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mSgEAAAAMBAJ&q=artie+ripp&pg=PA4|accessdate=October 31, 2015|magazine=Billboard|page=4|date=February 13, 1965}} Kama Sutra hit "immediately and often."

Ripp's work included an association and collaboration with the songwriting-and-production team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who had co-founded the Red Bird Records label with Goldner in 1964. In 1964, Red Bird released "Remember (Walkin' In The Sand)", which became a hit for the girl group The Shangri-Las; Ripp is credited with having "discovered" the group{{cite web|last1=Grecco|first1=John J.|title=Out In The Streets: The Story of The Shangri-Las|url=http://www.redbirdent.com/slas1.htm|website=Redbirdent.com|accessdate=January 14, 2016|archive-date=June 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622221317/http://www.redbirdent.com/slas1.htm|url-status=dead}} and shares a producer credit with Jeff Barry on the song.{{cite magazine|title=Leiber - Stoller - Goldner Present The Shangri-Las [advertisement]|magazine=Billboard|date=August 15, 1964|page=5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QUUEAAAAMBAJ&q=artie+ripp&pg=PA5|accessdate=October 28, 2015}} (American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, whom Ripp as a future record-label owner would sign to a recording contract about seven years later, recalls playing piano on the single; whether his playing was used on the demo version that had been produced by "Shadow" Morton or on the master version that had been produced by Barry and Ripp is unclear.){{cite magazine|title=Billy Joel: 1994 Recipient of The Century Award|magazine=Billboard|date=December 3, 1994|page=13|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZwgEAAAAMBAJ&q=%2B%22artie+ripp%22+%2B%22red+bird%22&pg=PA13|accessdate=January 5, 2016}} Also, when Leiber and Stoller's time-consuming work with The Drifters and The Coasters demanded much of their attention, Ripp was selected to take over production of singles for Jay and the Americans, released on United Artists. When the band "hit" in 1964 with the Ripp-produced "Come A Little Bit Closer", the band was invited to participate in the first Beatles' tour of the U.S. along with The Righteous Brothers{{cite web|title=Jay and the Americans|url=http://www.history-of-rock.com/jay_and_the_americans.htm|website=History-of-rock.com|accessdate=November 19, 2015}} and also played with The Rolling Stones at Carnegie Hall.{{cite web|title=Jay and the Americans biography is a Trilogy|url=http://www.jayandtheamericans.net/pages/trilogy2.htm|website=Jayandtheamericans.net|accessdate=November 19, 2015}}

Although Kama Sutra signed a major production contract in early 1965 with record label Columbia Records (with whom Ripp as principal of Family Productions would later negotiate regarding control of Billy Joel's contract in the 1970s), its primary and most significant distribution deal, established in mid-1965, was with MGM.{{cite magazine|title=MGM Will Handle Kama-Sutra|magazine=Billboard|date=June 19, 1965|page=3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TCkEAAAAMBAJ&q=Kama-Sutra&pg=PA63|accessdate=February 24, 2016}}

In 1965, after accountant Art Kass (a former employee of MGM Records) joined the management team, Kama Sutra expanded and became a record label, with Ripp as musical director. It opened a location in California, which was becoming the center of American popular music production.{{cite web |title=Essay: When L.A.'s Recording Studios Ruled the Music Scene |first1=Kent |last1=Hartman |url=https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2018/03/01/l-s-recording-studios-ruled-music-scene/ideas/essay/ |website=Zocalopublicsquare.org |date=March 1, 2018 |accessdate=September 25, 2022}} The west coast office was ultimately headed by Bob Krasnow; Ripp shifted to operate out of California in 1967.{{cite magazine|title=Coast Kama Sutra Rolls in High|magazine=Billboard|date=January 28, 1967|pages=6, 10}} The label's first single, produced by Ripp,{{cite web|title=Record Details|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/ka200|website=45cat|accessdate=January 12, 2016}} was The Vacels' "You're My Baby (And Don't You Forget It)", which peaked at 63 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on August 21, 1965.{{cite web|title=The Hot 100: The Week of August 21, 1965|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1965-08-21|website=Billboard.com|accessdate=January 12, 2016}} Ripp also negotiated a deal with the production team that handled The Lovin' Spoonful; it is said that the band carried the label through its first year.

In 1966, Ripp and his two co-principals negotiated a deal with Ashley Famous Agency (AFA) for AFA to act as the exclusive booker for the majority of Kama Sutra's artists and all its writers and producers.{{cite magazine|title=Ashley Famous Takes on Acts Of Kama Sutra|magazine=Billboard|date=July 8, 1966|page=24|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9BAEAAAAMBAJ&q=ashley+famous+takes+on+acts+of+Kama-Sutra&pg=PA24|accessdate=May 20, 2017}}

Ripp co-produced Bobby Bloom's single, "Love, Don't Let Me Down" which was released on Kama Sutra KA 223 in March 1967.45Cat - [https://www.45cat.com/record/ka223 Record Details, Artist: Bobby Bloom, Catalogue: KA 223, Bobby Bloom Love, Don't Let Me Down] It made both the Record World Coming Up,Record World, April 22, 1967 - [https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/60s/67/RW-1967-04-22.pdf Page 20 record world's SINGLES COMING UP, 8] and the Cash Box Looking Ahead chart.Cash Box, April 22, 1967 - [https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/60s/1967/CB-1967-04-22.pdf Page 14 Cash Box LOOKING AHEAD, 30]

{{main|Buddah Records}}

In 1967, Kama Sutra leadership, sensing that the MGM distribution deal was limiting the company's output, created the Buddah Records label as a subsidiary{{cite book|last1=Dannen|first1=Fredric|title=Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business|publisher=Random House|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aJTugyGjLOQC&q=kama+sutra|date=1990|isbn=0-8129-1658-1|accessdate=November 20, 2015}} with distribution handled by Kama Sutra.{{cite magazine|title=KS to Handle Distribution On Its 2nd Label, Buddah|magazine=Billboard|date=April 1, 1967|page=3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GSgEAAAAMBAJ&q=buddah&pg=PA3|accessdate=January 14, 2016}} Neil Bogart, who later co-founded Casablanca Records, was hired as vice president and general manager. Staff writers and producers included Peter Anders and Vini Poncia (who had created hits for The Ronettes), Bo Gentry and Ritchie Cordell (associated with Tommy James and the Shondells), Levine and Resnick, Elliot Chiprut, and Bobby Bloom.{{cite web|last1=Hoffmann|first1=Frank|title=Survey of American Popular Music: Buddah Records|url=http://www.shsu.edu/lis_fwh/book/hybrid_children_of_rock/support/Buddah.htm|website=Shsu.edu|publisher=Sam Houston State University|accessdate=November 20, 2015}} Bogart steered the label in the direction of Bubblegum pop, and the label had hits with Ohio Express and the 1910 Fruitgum Company. At its first anniversary in 1968, Buddah was ranked seventh in the U.S. in sales of singles; the company's estimated first-year sales were $5.8 million.

In 1968, Viewlex, a Long Island, New York company that made projectors and slides primarily for the school market, acquired Buddah by purchasing all its stock, and the three original partners (Ripp, Mizrahi, and Steinberg) left. When Bubblegum's appeal faded, so did Buddah's fortunes; parent company Viewlex went bankrupt in 1976. Buddah changed ownership and continued to release new music until 1983. In 1986, Buddah and its back catalogue were sold, and, through a series of acquisitions, Buddah—since renamed "Buddha"—became a reissue label owned by Sony Music Entertainment.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/global/1302614/bertelsmann-unveils-bmg-rights-management |title=Bertelsmann Unveils BMG Rights Management |last=Spahr |first=Wolfgang |date=14 October 2008|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |accessdate=January 11, 2016}}

Together, the Kama Sutra and Buddah labels released almost 100 Billboard Top 40 singles and almost fifty hits on the Billboard Rhythm & Blues chart. This productivity amounted to about one chart hit for every five releases; major record labels of the day realized about one chart hit for every twenty to thirty releases.

After obtaining financial backing and a promise of logistical backing from Ampex and Famous Music Corp.,{{cite magazine|title=Par, Famous Tie A. Ripp Family|magazine=Billboard|date=October 31, 1970|page=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uSkEAAAAMBAJ&q=billboard+ripp+famous&pg=PA10|accessdate=January 11, 2016}} which was the music publishing division of Paramount Pictures{{cite web|last1=McCartney|first1=Ruth|title=Ruth McCartney interviews Neil Merryweather|url=http://www.theneilmerryweather.com/interview.html|website=TheNeilMerryweather.com|accessdate=January 4, 2016}} which was itself a subsidiary of Gulf + Western,{{cite magazine|last1=Kirsch|first1=Bob|title=Famous Labels Bought by ABC|page=19|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QgkEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22famous+music%22+%2B++%22abc+records%22&pg=PA1|accessdate=January 4, 2016|magazine=Billboard|date=August 10, 1974}} Ripp founded Family Productions, Inc.--originally called "A. Ripp Family Productions--in 1970.{{cite web|title=Results Detail: Family Productions, Inc.|url=https://businessfilings.sos.ca.gov/frmDetail.asp?CorpID=00609730&qrystring=FAMILY+PRODUCTIONS&qrynumber=NULL|website=Business Filings (California)|accessdate=November 17, 2015}} The agreement included a "built-in promotion fund" and a commitment from Paramount to promote the output from the production house. The company's logo was an image of the Capitoline Wolf.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/billy-joel-is-angry-19800904|date=September 4, 1980|accessdate=June 11, 2018|magazine=Rolling Stone|last1=White|first1=Timothy|title=Billy Joel Is Angry}}

{{main|Cold Spring Harbor (album)}}

In 1971, Family Productions signed 22-year-old Billy Joel to a long-term recording-and-publishing contract as a solo artist. Joel had previously come to the attention of producer Michael Lang, co-creator of Woodstock and principal of Just Sunshine Records. Lang had given Joel a monetary advance, but then passed Joel along to Ripp—while still retaining rights to profit from Joel's output—because he wanted to focus his attentions on a different artist instead. Ripp produced Joel's first solo album Cold Spring Harbor, and Paramount distributed it. Jon Troy, an early Joel manager, was promotions director at Family Productions.{{cite web|title=Sleeping With The Music On|url=http://billyjoel52ndstreetserenade.blogspot.com/2014/11/sleeping-with-music-on.html|website=Billyjoel52ndstreetserenade.blogspot.com|accessdate=October 30, 2015}}

Despite the occurrence of a mastering error that altered its pitch,{{cite web|last1=Erlewine|first1=Stephen Thomas|title=AllMusic Review: Cold Spring Harbor|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/cold-spring-harbor-mw0000194331|website=AllMusic.com|accessdate=January 14, 2016}} Cold Spring Harbor showed critical promise{{cite magazine|title=Billboard Album Reviews: Pop--Billy Joel, Cold Spring Harbor|magazine=Billboard|date=February 19, 1972|page=30|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zigEAAAAMBAJ&q=family+ripp+billy+joel&pg=PA30|accessdate=January 14, 2016}} but was a commercial failure; distribution was poor,{{cite web|last1=Goldstein|first1=Ian|title=Top of the Pops: Cold Spring Harbor|url=http://nowherebutpop.com/2012/09/04/top-of-the-pops-everybody-loves-you-now/|website=Nowherebutpop.com|accessdate=January 5, 2016}} and promotion was insufficient.{{cite book|editor-last=Larkin|editor-first=Colin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|date=2011|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=978-0-85712-595-8|edition=5th Concise|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC&q=cold+spring+harbor&pg=PA424|accessdate=November 17, 2015}} Joel states, "We [including touring bandmates Rhys Clark, Larry Russell, and Alan Hertzberg] didn't make any money, nobody got paid. We were touring around in one of these little camper trailer things, eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches."{{cite web|last1=Waddell|first1=Ray|title=Q&A: Turning 60, Billy Joel is 'Happy and Contented'|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-billyjoel-idUSTRE5475S120090508|website=Reuters.com|date=May 8, 2009|accessdate=January 5, 2016}} While Joel has blamed the failure of Cold Spring Harbor on Ripp,{{cite news|last1=Getlen|first1=Larry|title=How Billy Joel Became 'The Piano Man'|url=https://nypost.com/2014/01/26/how-billy-joel-became-the-piano-man/|accessdate=January 5, 2016|work=New York Post|date=January 26, 2014}} stating, for example, that Ripp had run out of money to fix the mastering error, Ripp states that he spent $450,000 in developing Joel.{{cite journal|last1=Goodman|first1=Fred|title=An Innocent Man|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G6J2BiVlRBkC&q=artie+ripp&pg=PA73|accessdate=June 30, 2015|page=73|journal=Spy|date=March 1991}} Others describe parent company Gulf + Western's commitment to music production and distribution as having been lackluster; Joel biographer Fred Schruers describes the organization having been "too dysfunctional to do the kind of marketing and promotion that would trigger really profitable album sales." Later, in 1974, when Gulf + Western sold Paramount's subsidiary Famous—and thus the majority of Famous' labels—to ABC Records, a Famous Music employee stated, "Frankly, I don't think Gulf & Western really wanted to be in the music business. They were never particularly enthusiastic about it and the picture company [Paramount] was making an awful lot more money than we were."

The relationship between Joel and Ripp deteriorated, and in 1972, Joel jumped ship to Columbia Records. In exchange for releasing Joel from his contract with Family, Ripp agreed to receive about four percent - then 28 cents - of the retail price of each sale of Joel's first ten albums released with Columbia; Lang agreed to receive about two percent.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/60930/billy-joel-the-life-times-of-an-angry-young-man-continued|title=Billy Joel: The Life & Times Of An Angry Young Man (continued)|magazine=Billboard}} The Capitoline Wolf logo from Family Productions continued to appear on Joel's albums for a period of time. Ripp retained publishing rights until Walter Yetnikoff, head of Columbia in the 1970s and 1980s, bought them and gave them to Joel as a birthday gift in 1978. Yetnikoff had to threaten Ripp to obtain the rights.{{cite magazine|last1=Paumgarten|first1=Nick|title=Thirty-Three-Hit Wonder|magazine=The New Yorker|date=October 27, 2014|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/27/thirty-three-hit-wonder|accessdate=February 25, 2016}}

In 1971, Ripp founded Fidelity Recording, a Studio City, California recording studio. In 1976, Fidelity's Studio B was where The Runaways, an all-female rock band which included a young Joan Jett, recorded the punk-influenced hard rock single "Cherry Bomb". Band manager Kim Fowley describes Studio B as being "a remade storeroom...It was awful. But it wasn't scary. It was the kind of studio you wanted a garage product out of...[If] you walk into a room where they store stuff, you're not going to be intimidated. You're going to swagger about: ‘What a horrible place. Oh, well, we've played a lot of horrible places. This is nothing new.’”{{cite web |last=Schultz|first=Barbara |title=Classic Tracks: The Runaways "Cherry Bomb" |url=http://www.mixonline.com/news/profiles/classic-tracks-runaways-cherry-bomb/366162 |publisher=Mix Magazine |website=Mixonline.com |accessdate=November 16, 2015 |date=January 1, 2010}} Ripp describes Studio B as being convertible from a different use into a studio when need be. He states, "...there was an intimacy in the room and there was a sound that was tight and alive, despite its lack of, shall we say, visual amenities.” Fowley states that the practice at Fidelity was "...no guests. No visitors. No parents, no record company, nothing. We were at war. We didn't have time to entertain in the foxhole. No drugs or alcohol either. Fast food. You always play obnoxious rock 'n' roll when you eat bad fast food.”

Fidelity is where the soundtrack of a Hanna-Barbera production in The Cat in the Hat franchise was recorded in 1981. The studio is also where Ripp and Woodstock-planner Artie Kornfeld re-mixed Survivor's Premonition album in 1981,{{cite magazine|title=Studio Track|magazine=Billboard|date=August 8, 1981|page=34|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dyQEAAAAMBAJ&q=artie+ripp&pg=PT33|accessdate=January 11, 2016}} although the group's founding member Jim Peterik states that he and others did a final mix.{{cite book|last1=Peterik|first1=Jim|title=Through the Eye of The Tiger:The Rock 'n' Roll Life of Survivor's Founding Member|date=2014|publisher=BenBella Books|isbn=978-1940363165|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nas3BAAAQBAJ&q=through+the+eye+of+the+tiger|accessdate=November 22, 2015}} Fidelity is also where Ripp and engineer Larry Elliot{{cite magazine|last1=Kelly|first1=Karen|title=Artie Ripp: Old-Timer More Active Than Ever With Publishing, Producing, Studio|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TyQEAAAAMBAJ&q=billboard+artie+ripp&pg=PT87|magazine=Billboard|page=10|accessdate=June 30, 2015|date=July 19, 1980}} substantially overdubbed and re-mixed Joel's Cold Spring Harbor album in 1983; the remix was reissued by Columbia.{{cite web|title=Billy Joel: Cold Spring Harbor [1983]|url=http://www.discogs.com/Billy-Joel-Cold-Spring-Harbor/release/2468336|website=Discogs.com|accessdate=November 16, 2015}} Other artists who recorded work at Fidelity include Mandrill, Melanie, Peter Yarrow, and Gábor Szabó. In 2002, Ripp sold the studio to Tom Weir, who renamed it Studio City Sound and went on to win a 2004 Grammy Award for mixing the year's Best Reggae Album, True Love.{{cite web|title=Winners|url=http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=weir&field_nominee_work_value=&year=2004&genre=All|website=Grammy.com|accessdate=November 1, 2015}}

Ripp has been the principal of Ripp Entertainment Group, Inc. since 1977. Additionally, Ripp established the Home Grown Music, Inc. (BMI) publishing company in 1979, and in 1980, Ripp established the Ripparthur Music, Inc. (ASCAP) publishing company,{{cite magazine|title=Executive Turntable: Publishing|magazine=Billboard|date=August 8, 1981|page=4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dyQEAAAAMBAJ&q=artie+ripp&pg=PT33}} thereby controlling many aspects of music production: publishing companies, a production company, and a recording studio. Neither Home Grown Music nor Ripparthur Music remains an independent entity.{{cite web|title=Results Detail: Ripparthur Music, Inc. Inc.|url=https://businessfilings.sos.ca.gov/frmDetail.asp?CorpID=00958617&qrystring=RIPPARTHUR&qrynumber=NULL|website=Business Filings (California)|accessdate=November 22, 2015}}{{cite web|title=Results Detail: Home Grown Music, Inc. Inc.|url=https://businessfilings.sos.ca.gov/frmDetail.asp?CorpID=00942803&qrystring=HOME+GROWN+MUSIC&qrynumber=NULL|website=Business Filings (California)|accessdate=November 22, 2015}} In the late 2000s, Ripp Entertainment Group was named the exclusive distributor of the short-lived DVCD+ digital storage technology, which Ripp co-invented and which became available in 2008.{{cite web|last1=Amergence|title=DVCD+ To Convert Music Found on DVD Soundtracks to Audio CDs|url=http://www.storagenewsletter.com/rubriques/optical/amergence-dvcd-plus-to-convert-music/|website=Storagenewsletter.com|date=December 10, 2008 |accessdate=November 18, 2015}} In 2014, he established Artful Results, Inc., (now dissolved).{{cite web|title=Business Entities|url=https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/CBS/SearchResults?filing=corp&SearchType=CORP&SearchCriteria=artful+results&SearchSubType=Keyword|website=Business Filings (California)|accessdate=July 18, 2021}}

Ripp has also had a career in other media outlets as a film actor, film producer, and consultant. In the 1978 film American Hot Wax, a biopic about disc jockey Alan Freed that was directed by Floyd Mutrux, Ripp played Freed's manager and talent scout.{{cite web|last1=Crowe|first1=Cameron|title=American Hot Wax: Freed at Last [from Rolling Stone magazine, April 20, 1978]|url=http://www.theuncool.com/journalism/rs263-american-hot-wax/|website=Theuncool.com|accessdate=October 30, 2015}} He also played "Rotweiler" in the 1987 movie "Number One With a Bullet," starring Valerie Bertinelli.{{cite web|title=Number One With a Bullet (1987): Acting Credits|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/35809/Number-One-With-a-Bullet/cast|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325114140/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/35809/Number-One-With-a-Bullet/cast|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 25, 2016|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|date=2016|accessdate=July 18, 2021}} Ripp served as a consultant on the development of the play Baby It's You!, co-written by Mutrux and music journalist Colin Escott, about the life and music industry career of housewife-turned-record-label-founder Florence Greenberg.{{cite web|last1=Mann|first1=Iris|title=From Jewish Housewife to Rock 'n' Roll Mogul|url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/music/article/from_jewish_housewife_to_rock_n_roll_mogul_20091201|website=Jewishjournal.com|accessdate=October 23, 2015}} The play opened on Broadway in 2011,{{cite journal|last1=Jones|first1=Kenneth|title=It's Her Party: Baby It's You!, starring Beth Leavel, Opens on Broadway|journal=Playbill|date=April 27, 2011|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/its-her-party-baby-its-you-starring-beth-leavel-opens-on-broadway-178590|accessdate=November 13, 2015}} and its lead actress, Beth Leavel, was nominated for a 2011 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for her performance as Greenberg.{{cite journal|last1=Jones|first1=Kenneth|last2=Gans|first2=Andrew|title=2011 Tony Nominations Announced; Book of Mormon Earns 14 Nominations|journal=Playbill|date=May 3, 2011|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/2011-tony-nominations-announced-book-of-mormon-earns-14-nominations-178792?r=n|accessdate=November 13, 2015}} In addition, Ripp served as Music Consultant on the 2014 film "Everly",{{cite web|title=Everly (2014): Production Credits|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/465996/Everly/credits|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325115211/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/465996/Everly/credits|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 25, 2016|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|date=2016|accessdate=November 14, 2015}} starring Salma Hayek.

While he was with Family Productions, Ripp allegedly had "an industry reputation of taking advantage of acts he signed."{{cite web|title=AA Review Family|url=http://badcatrecords.com/BadCat/AA_REVIEW_FAMILY.htm|website=Badcatrecords.com|accessdate=January 18, 2016}} For example, musician Neil Merryweather says of the eponymous album his "Heavy Cruiser" band put out, "Artie made a chunk of money and we never made a dime. But that's the way it was the whole time we were with Family Productions." Merryweather also describes an incident in which a Family employee withheld plane tickets from his "Mama Lion" band unless the band signed a contract. Merryweather says, "This extortion/squeeze play thing was typical of Family Productions." The long-term deal Ripp signed with Billy Joel in 1971 serves as another example; its terms have been described as being so severe as to almost "deprive Joel of the right to earn a living."{{cite news|last1=Smith|first1=Giles|title=MUSIC / Playing piano until the fingers get burnt: After 20 years in the music business, Billy Joel has a lot to teach about music. And a lot to learn about business.|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-playing-piano-until-the-fingers-get-burnt-after-20-years-in-the-music-business-billy-joel-has-1483565.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304140230/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-playing-piano-until-the-fingers-get-burnt-after-20-years-in-the-music-business-billy-joel-has-1483565.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 4, 2016|accessdate=November 13, 2015|work=Independent|date=October 22, 2011}} Joel calls it "a horrible deal," stating, "I signed away everything – the copyrights, publishing, record royalties, everything. My first child. I gave it all away..."{{cite web|last1=Baldwin|first1=Alec|title=Here's the Thing with Alec Baldwin [a transcript of an interview with Billy Joel]|website=Wnycstudios.org|publisher=WNYC Radio|url=https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/heresthething/episodes/225651-billy-joel#transcript|accessdate=June 17, 2020}}

About the Cold Spring Harbor album, which Ripp produced in 1971, Joel states, "The whole thing was completely overproduced." Joel recalls that making the album had been "a torturous process" and that it had been "misery" working with Ripp.{{cite book|last1=Schruers|first1=Fred|title=Billy Joel: The Definitive Biography|date=2014|publisher=Crown Publishing|location=New York|isbn=978-0-8041-4019-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pneBAwAAQBAJ&q=the+whole+thing+was+completely+overproduced&pg=PT75|accessdate=November 9, 2015}}

Nevertheless, despite these difficulties and others, Joel gives Ripp credit as having been "the guy who got me on the radar screen." Joel states, "After all the people in the industry who passed on me, Artie Ripp was the guy who wanted me to be his artist. Nobody else heard it, nobody else wanted to sign me, nobody else was making me a deal. Artie made me a deal. He heard something."

Former Rolling Stones manager and producer Andrew Loog Oldham describes Ripp's persona as being well-suited to Manhattan's rough-and-tumble world that was the hustling epicenter of American popular music production in the early 1960s; Ripp could slickly persuade his listener to believe in any song he was working on.{{cite book|last1=Oldham|first1=Andrew Loog|title=Rolling Stoned|date=2014|publisher=Gegensatz Press|location=Syracuse, New York|page=218|isbn=9781933237848|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LtFZBAAAQBAJ&q=artie+ripp&pg=PA219}} In 1980, Ripp was filmed driving his Excalibur kit car{{cite web |title=THE PHILIP COHEN COLLECTION: BILLY JOEL (PITCH CORRECTED) |url=http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=665 |website=Bigozine2 |date=December 28, 2010 |access-date=July 18, 2021}} in a segment about Billy Joel that was produced for the 20/20 television newsmagazine.{{cite web|title=ABC News 20/20 Joel|url=https://www.amazon.com/ABC-News-20-Billy-Joel/dp/B0012JG174|website=Amazon.com|accessdate=February 26, 2016}}{{citation |work=Youtube.com |minutes=5:04 |title=Billy Joel documentary ABC 20/20|date=June 14, 2014 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-gUgyf1-3w|accessdate = July 18, 2021}}

Ripp was married to Phyllis Ripp, who died in 1993. He has two children.{{cite web|title=Phyllis Ripp|url=https://variety.com/1993/scene/people-news/phyllis-ripp-104646/|website=Variety|date=March 4, 1993|accessdate=October 29, 2015}} His son Adam Ripp is the co-writer and director of the film Gang Tapes.{{cite web|last1=P.|first1=Ken|title=10 Questions: Adam Ripp|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2003/01/03/10-questions-adam-ripp|website=Ign.com|date=January 3, 2003|accessdate=October 29, 2015}} In March 2022, it was announced that Adam Ripp would be working with a film studio to write and direct a biopic about Billy Joel's early career. The elder Ripp is one of the producers of the film.{{cite web |title=Billy Joel Biopic 'Piano Man' Greenlit by Michael Jai White's Jaigantic Studios (EXCLUSIVE) |last1=Shanfeld |first1=Ethan |website=Variety.com |url=https://variety.com/2022/film/news/billy-joel-biopic-piano-man-jaigantic-1235199055/ |date=March 9, 2022 |access-date=September 27, 2022}}

• Lost Stallions: The Journey Home (2008){{cite web|title='Lost Stallions:The Journey Home' Full Cast & Crew|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1053926/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast|website=IMDb.com|accessdate=October 31, 2015}}

• Gang Tapes (2001){{cite web|last1=Harvey|first1=Dennis|title=Review: 'Gang Tapes'|url=https://www.variety.com/2001/film/reviews/gang-tapes-1200467222|website=Variety.com|date=March 22, 2001|accessdate=October 31, 2015}}
• Meet the Deedles (1998){{cite web|last1=Loewenstein|first1=Lael|title=Review: 'Meet the Deedles'|url=https://variety.com/1998/film/reviews/meet-the-deedles-1200453075/|website=Variety.com|date=March 22, 1998|accessdate=October 30, 2015}}

Albums

• Sailor Moon - Songs from the Hit TV Series (Rhino Records) (1996){{cite web|title=Sailor Moon|url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=7545&recPointer=2&recCount=25&bibId=12079004|website=Loc.gov|publisher=U.S. Library of Congress|accessdate=November 6, 2015}}
• Sailor Moon & The Scouts - Lunarock (Rhino Records) (1999)

Singles

• "Sixteen Tons" and "Sixteen Tons (Instrumental)" (covered by Eric Burdon) (Empire Records) (1990){{cite web|title=Eric Burdon: Sixteen Tons|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/emps003|website=45cat.com|accessdate=November 13, 2015}}

Albums

• Sophisticated Boom Boom: The Shadow Morton Story (Ace Records Import) (2013){{cite web|title=Sophisticated Boom Boom: The Shadow Morton Story|url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sophisticated-boom-boom-the-shadow-morton-story/26297503?ean=0029667054621#productInfoTabs|website=Barnesandnoble.com|accessdate=November 17, 2015}}
• China Beach: Music and Memories (SBK Records) (1990) (co-producer){{cite web|title=Various: China Beach: Music and Memories|url=https://www.discogs.com/Various-China-Beach-Music-And-Memories/release/5654719|website=Discogs.com|accessdate=February 12, 2016}}
• Premonition by Survivor (1981){{cite web|title=Premonition: Credits|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/premonition-mw0000691184/credits|website=Allmusic.com|accessdate=November 22, 2015}}
• Cold Spring Harbor by Billy Joel (Family Productions) (1971){{cite web|title=Cold Spring Harbor: Credits|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/cold-spring-harbor-mw0000194331/credits|website=Allmusic.com|accessdate=November 13, 2015}}
• Times That Try a Man's Soul by Kyle (Paramount Records) (1971){{cite web|title=Kyle (8): Time That Try a Man's Soul|url=https://www.discogs.com/Kyle-Times-That-Try-A-Mans-Soul/release/1418730|website=Discogs.com|accessdate=February 12, 2011}}{{cite magazine|title=Album Reviews: Kyle: Times That Try a Man's Soul|magazine=Billboard|date=May 22, 1971|page=39|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9wgEAAAAMBAJ&q=billboard+artie+ripp+kyle&pg=PA47-IA8|accessdate=February 12, 2016}} (and director)
• Rock & Roll Is Here to Stay! by Sha Na Na (1969){{cite web|title=Fabulous Flip Sides – Henry Gross Interview - Sha Na Na to Shannon and Beyond |url=https://www.goldminemag.com/columns/fabulous-flip-sides-henry-gross-interview |website=Goldminemag.com |accessdate=September 25, 2022 |date=October 20, 2018 |last1=Kurtz |first1=Warren}}

Singles

• "She's Got a Way" by Billy Joel (Family Productions) (1971){{cite web|title=Billy Joel, FPA-0900|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/fpa0900|website=45cat.com|accessdate=November 18, 2015}}
• "Everybody Loves You Now by Billy Joel (Family Productions) (1971)
• "Chantilly Lace" by Sha Na Na (1970) (Kama Sutra Records){{cite web|title=Record Details|url=http://45cat.com/record/kam004|website=45cat.com|accessdate=January 8, 2016}}
• "Remember Then" by Sha Na Na (1970) (Kama Sutra Records)
• "What's Yesterday" by Tony Bruno (Capitol) (1968){{cite web|title=Tony Bruno|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/2105|website=45cat.com|accessdate=November 20, 2015}}
• "Small Town, Bring Down" by Tony Bruno (Capitol) (1968)
• "To Be With You" by Vince Edwards (1967) (Kama Sutra Records) (co-produced with Anders and Poncia){{cite web|title=Vincent Edwards (2) - To Be With You / Nylon Stockings|url=https://www.discogs.com/Vince-Edwards-To-Be-With-You-Nylon-Stockings/release/7103850|website=Discogs.com|accessdate=February 25, 2016}}
• "Nylon Stockings" by Vince Edwards (1967) (Kama Sutra Records) (co-produced with Anders and Poncia)
• "A Lifetime Lovin' You" by Vic Dana (1967) (Kama Sutra Records){{cite magazine|title=Spotlight Singles|magazine=Billboard|date=September 23, 1967|page=18|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XCgEAAAAMBAJ&q=artie+ripp&pg=PA18|accessdate=November 22, 2015}}
• "Bad Misunderstanding" by The Critters (Kapp Records) (a Kama-Sutra production) (1966) (co-produced with Anders and Poncia){{cite magazine|title=Put a chart in front of them and what do they do? They climb it. [advertisement]|magazine=Billboard|date=December 10, 1966|page=49}}
• "Mr. Dieingly Sad" by The Critters (Kapp Records) (a Kama Sutra production) (1966){{cite magazine|title=Billboard Hot 100|magazine=Billboard|date=April 2, 1966|page=24|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6igEAAAAMBAJ&q=artie+ripp&pg=PA24|accessdate=November 11, 2015}}
• "Younger Girl" by The Critters (Kapp Records) (a Kama Sutra production) (1966){{cite magazine|title=Billboard Hot 100|magazine=Billboard|date=May 28, 1966|page=24|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6xAEAAAAMBAJ&q=artie+ripp&pg=PA17|accessdate=November 13, 2015}}
• "Splendor in the Grass" by Boys (Metric) (a Kama Sutra production) (1965){{cite magazine|title=Spotlight Singles: Top 60|magazine=Billboard|date=November 27, 1965|page=16|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NykEAAAAMBAJ&q=artie+ripp&pg=PA16|accessdate=November 13, 2015}}
• "Think of the Good Times" by Jay and the Americans (United Artists Records) (a Kama Sutra production) (1965){{cite magazine|title=Being Built by Kama Sutra Productions [advertisement]|magazine=Billboard|date=April 3, 1965|page=15|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZykEAAAAMBAJ&q=artie+ripp&pg=PA15|accessdate=November 13, 2015}}
• "Who Are You" by Stacey Cane (Jubilee) (a Kama Sutra production) (1965) (co-produced with Mizrahi and Steinberg)
• "In The Night" by Freddy Cannon (Warner Bros. Records) (a Kama Sutra production) (1965)
• "Let's Lock The Door (And Throw Away The Key)" by Jay and the Americans (United Artists Records) (a Leiber-Stoller production) (1964){{cite web|title=Jay and the Americans|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/ua805|website=45cat.com|accessdate=November 18, 2015}}
• "Come A Little Bit Closer" by Jay and the Americans (United Artists Records) (a Leiber-Stoller production) (1964){{cite web|title=Jay and the Americans: Come A Little Bit Closer; Goodbye Boys Goodbye (Ciao Ragazi Ciao)|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/ua759us|website=45cat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2015}}
• "Goodbye Boys Goodbye (Ciao Ragazi Ciao)" by Jay and the Americans (United Artists Records) (a Leiber-Stoller production) (1964)
• "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" by the Shangri-Las (Red Bird Records) (a Leiber-Stoller-Goldner production) (1964)
• "Just One Look" by Doris Troy (1963)

Video Collections

• Various titles, 12-title collection culled from the Shindig television series, (1991-Rhino Records) (1992-Vintage Records) (co-produced with Trisha Wexler){{cite web|title=Videos Mine Musical World of 'Shindig'|url=http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1991-09-23/lifestyle/9109220089_1_shindig-artie-ripp-wexler|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200316/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1991-09-23/lifestyle/9109220089_1_shindig-artie-ripp-wexler|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 4, 2016|last=New York Daily News|website=Orlandosentinel.com|accessdate=February 26, 2016}}

Albums

• "Born to Be" by Melanie (Safka) (Buddah Records (1968){{cite web|title=Born to Be|url=http://freespace.virgin.net/robert_ian.smith/Albums/Borntobe.htm|website=A Guide to the Recordings of Melanie Safka|accessdate=January 18, 2016}}

Singles

• "I'm Back in Town" by Melanie (Safka) (Buddah Records) (1968){{cite web|title=Melanie - I'm Back In Town (Melanie Safka)|url=http://www.dada-records.de/schallplatten-vinyl-schallplatten/schallplatten-single-45rpm/melanie-produced-by-peter-schekeryk-directed-by-artie-ripp-arranged-by-roger-kellaway-im-back-in-town-melanie-safka-animal-crackers-melanie-safka-42294/|website=Dada-records.de|accessdate=January 18, 2016}}
• "Animal Crackers" by Melanie (Safka) (Buddah Records) (1968)

• "The Light in Your Window" (with Carole King and Gerry Goffin) (Columbia) (produced by Nevins-Kirshner Associates Inc.) (1961){{cite web|title=Artist: Kenny Karen|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/442264&c=247152|website=45cat.com|accessdate=November 13, 2015}}
• "Blessed Be" (1958){{cite journal|last1=Copyright office|first1=Library of Congress|title=Music: January - June 1958|journal=Catalogue of Copyright Entries|date=1959|volume=12|issue=1|page=1056|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GDchAQAAIAAJ&q=artie+ripp+cathy&pg=PA1056|accessdate=November 12, 2015}}
• "Cathy" by The [New York] Temptations (Goldisc Records) (1958)
• "Rock & Roll Baby" by The [New York] Temptations (Goldisc Records) (1958)

• The Merv Griffin Show (1971){{cite web|title=The Merv Griffin Show: June 30, 1971|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/the-merv-griffin-show/june-30-1971-1560761/|website=Tv.com|accessdate=March 4, 2016}}

• As part of his "Off the Record ..." series of interviews with music industry icons, Joe Smith, (formerly the chief executive officer of Capitol/EMI Records), interviewed Ripp on March 14, 1986. This article's quotations of Ripp originally came from this recording. Complete and unedited recordings of these interviews are available in the U.S. through interlibrary loan from the Library of Congress.{{cite web|title=Search results from Joe Smith|url=https://www.loc.gov/collections/joe-smith/?c=228&all=true&st=list|website=The Library of Congress|accessdate=22 December 2016}}

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