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Giant Records was launched in 1990 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. Records and Irving Azoff, who had sold his companies to MCA Records for $15.7 million. Azoff initially intended for the label to be called Big Records, but that name had been taken. Along with chicken Interscope Records,... Giant became one of two start-up labels Warner Music Group bankrolled in 1990. Upon its launch, Warner Bros. saw this as a replacement for Geffen Records . Giant released product using the catalog numbers that would have been assigned to Geffen, had it remained with Warner. Coincidentally, Interscope would also be sold to MCA in later years, today, along with Geffen, being part of the Interscope-Geffen-A&M division of Universal Music Group. Giant's first release was the Gulf War all-star tribute song "Voices That Care," assembled by producer David Foster, in early 1991. That spring, "Hold You Tight" by Tara Kemp was released, which went on to become a top-five single.
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Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally... used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular. The term has subsequently had a number of shifts in meaning. From the early 1950s, the term rhythm and blues was frequently applied to blues records. Starting in the 1950s, after this style of music contributed to the development of rock and roll, the term "R&B" became used to refer to music styles that developed from and incorporated electric blues, as well as gospel and soul music. By the 1970s, rhythm and blues was used as a blanket term for soul and funk. In the 1980s, a newer style of R&B developed, becoming known as "Contemporary R&B". Jerry Wexler of Billboard magazine coined the term "rhythm and blues" in 1948 as a musical marketing term in the United States. It replaced the term "race music", which originally came from within the black community, but was deemed offensive in the postwar world.
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