Shipping With Attitude, ``WWF -- The Music -- Vol. 4'' Set to Bodyslam the Billboard Charts!NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Oct. 14, 1999-- KOCH Entertainment Koch Entertainment LP is a North American entertainment company with offices in New York, Nashville and Toronto. It is also distributed by the Universal Music Group in Europe and in Asia under the name Koch Universal. to Release "World Wrestling Federation -- The Music V.4" on November 2 Following up the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America, Washington, DC, www.riaa.com) A membership association of music recording companies. Its goal is to promote the record label industry and protect the rights of copyright owners. It was a major contributor to the SDMI digital distribution system. platinum album, "WWF See Windows Workflow Foundation. -- The Music -- V.3," KOCH Entertainment will release "WWF -- The Music -- V.4" on November 2, 1999. "WWF -- The Music -- V.4" includes the full-length entrance themes for World Wrestling Federation superstars Chris Jericho  This page is currently protected from editing until disputes have been resolved. , Big Show, The Corporation, Mark Henry, Test, Mankind, D'Lo, Christian, Mr. Ass, Undertaker, Triple H/Chyna, Edge, The Rock and the one and only Stone Cold Steve Austin Steven James Williams (born Steven Anderson on December 18 1964) better known by his ring name "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, is an American actor and semi-retired professional wrestler. ("Oh Hell Yeah" as performed by HBLOCKX). These original entrance themes, as heard during World Wrestling Federation live events, pay-per-view and on television programming including USA Networks' "Raw Is War" (Mondays at 9 p.m. ET), "Sunday Night Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was an NBC late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. Heat" (7 p.m. ET) and UPN's "Smackdown!" (Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET), will be recognized by millions of hardcore fans, who turn up the heat and crank up the amps with stars of the WWF. "WWF -- The Music -- V.4" is the first RIAA gold-shipped album for KOCH International, the exclusive marketing and record distribution tag-team partner of World Wrestling Federation. "WWF -- The Music -- V.4" is the latest edition in the hugely successful "WWF -- The Music" series. "WWF -- The Music -- V.3," also distributed by KOCH Entertainment, recently reached platinum status. "The success of the albums is fueled by the enormous global popularity of World Wrestling Federation, its charismatic WWF Superstars WWF Superstars is an arcade game manufactured by Technos and released in 1989. It is the first WWF arcade game to be released. A series of unrelated games with the same title were released by LJN for the original Game Boy. and their original theme music," said Jon Sayer, Director of Midwest Sales for the WWF. "Without a doubt, the strong combination of the new entrance themes, KOCH Entertainment's sales efforts, the customized announcements during WWF TV programs, ads in the WWF magazine and WWF.com exposure guarantees `WWF -- The Music -- V.4' to achieve and surpass the success of the past volumes." The original music that started it all was "The Wrestling Album," first issued on Epic Records Epic Records is an American record label, owned and operated by Sony BMG. Electric Light Orchestra, Ozzy Osbourne, Sade, Luther Vandross, Gloria Estefan, George Michael, Cyndi Lauper, and Duran Duran paved the way for Epic's multiplatinum 1980s and 1990s successes. in 1985 and reissued by KOCH International in 1998. WWF legends who participated in that LP (of oldies Oldies is a generic term commonly used to describe a radio format that usually concentrates on Top 40 music from the '50s, '60s and '70s. Oldies are typically from R&B, pop and rock music genres. , originals and oddities) included Hulk Hogan, Jesse "The Body" Ventura (now the governor of Minnesota The Governor of Minnesota is the chief executive of the U.S. state of Minnesota, leading the state's executive branch. Thirty-eight different people have been governors of the state, though historically there were also three governors of Minnesota Territory. ), Junk Yard Dog, Jimmy Hart, Captain Lou Albano, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Hillbilly Jim, Nikolai Volkoff, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, announcer "Mean" Gene Okerlund and Vince McMahon, owner of the WWF. World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc. of Stamford, Conn., is principally engaged in the development, production and marketing of television programming, pay-per-view programming and live events, and the licensing and sale of branded consumer products featuring the company's highly successful World Wrestling Federation brand. Formerly known as Titan Sports Inc., World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc. has been involved in the entertainment business for more than 20 years and has developed the brand into one of the most popular forms of entertainment today. World Wrestling Federation holds approximately 200 live events each year in major stadiums and arenas throughout the world; produces nine hours of original television programming, 52 weeks per year, and 12 U.S. domestic pay-per-view events each year; distributes its programming and pay-per-view events in more than 150 countries in nine languages; markets and sells its branded merchandise directly to consumers and to major retailers and through a network of approximately 85 licensees worldwide; publishes two monthly magazines with a combined annual circulation of approximately 5.8 million; and distributes news and information about its programming and products through its wwf.com Internet site. KOCH Entertainment was founded on June 1, 1999, as the content arm of KOCH International, the premier independent music distribution company in the world. KOCH Entertainment's interests include records, music publishing The contractual relationship between a songwriter or music composer and a music publisher, whereby the writer assigns part or all of his or her music copyrights to the publisher in exchange for the publisher's commercial exploitation of the music. and an Internet presence. |
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