![]() ![]() “One of the last great showmen.”īut no amount of magic could make Kiss’s debut album sell. “Bogart was like PT Barnum in Barnum & Bailey,” adds Simmons. ![]() “We’d be meeting with DJs, promo men, and he’d suddenly say, ‘Kiss is magic!’ and unleash a flash-paper flame. “Neil fell in love with the stuff,” recalled Larry Harris. On a trip to a magic shop to buy stage props, Bogart discovered ‘flash paper’, a material used by magicians to create little fireballs in their hands. Once Bogart accepted Kiss’s larger-than-life image, he helped make it even larger, suggesting an elevating drum riser and convincing Simmons to breathe fire as part of the act. Kiss let off so many smoke bombs, some guests fled for safety before they’d even played a note. “But we had the king-size balls to tell him, ‘The makeup stays.’” Realising Simmons’s balls were as big as his own, Bogart signed Kiss.Ĭasablanca celebrated their launch on February 18, 1974, with a $45,000 party at Los Angeles’ Century Plaza Hotel. “Neil didn’t like the makeup,” recalls Simmons. But when the face-painted rockers showcased for him at a ballet school in Manhattan in September ’73, he had reservations. All they needed now was a band.īogart was willing to sign Kiss on the strength of their demo tape alone. As his business partner Larry Harris observes in his memoir And Party Every Day: The Inside Story Of Casablanca Records, their fortunes changed when they “adopted the ploy of selling Neil” to potential investors.īogart dazzled Warner Brothers’ top executives with his charm and bravado, leading to the label giants offering Casablanca a seven-figure financial backing and distribution deal. In a sense, Bogart stuck the equivalent of that red frilly bow tie on his Casablanca artists: be it Simmons’s fire-breathing act with Kiss or Parliament’s levitating ‘Mothership’ stage set.īy 1971, Bogart was working as an executive at the independent Buddah Records, whose releases included avant-garde bluesman Captain Beefheart’s Safe As Milk, but also the bubblegum pop singles Simon Says by 1910 Fruitgum Company, and Ohio Express’s Yummy Yummy Yummy.īogart would bring a similar eclecticism to Casablanca, the label he set up in 1973. “He stuck a red frilly bow tie on his hangers so he could sell more,” says Gene Simmons, “and it worked.” And when sales stalled, he customised them. ![]() Neil Bogart could sell anything – including coat hangers. But when a job singing on cruise ships didn’t last, he turned to what he did best: selling. Born Neil Bogatz in February 1943 in a New York housing project, he always dreamed of being in show business. The man at the heart of it all was label head Neil Bogart. To his right is disco queen Donna Summer (Image credit: Getty Images) District Court for the Southern District ofĬalifornia, U.S.Casablanca Records executive Neil Bogart (centre). District Court for the Northern District ofĬalifornia, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District ofĬalifornia, U.S. District Court for the Central District ofĬalifornia, U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District ofĬalifornia, U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District ofĬalifornia, U.S. Circuit Court for the Central District ofĬalifornia, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District ofĬalifornia, U.S. Attorney for the Central District ofĬalifornia, U.S. National Youth Administration advisory committeesĬalifornia and Arizona, Assistant Supervisor for Surveys forĬalifornia Claims Board (Quartermaster General)Ĭalifornia Land Claims Commissioners, Board ofĬalifornia-Nevada region (Agriculture Department)Ĭalifornia Pacific International ExpositionĬalifornia Roadless Area Review and Evaluation IIĬalifornia, Special Circuit Court for the District ofĬalifornia State Headquarters (Selective Service)Ĭalifornia State Office (Land Management Bureau)Ĭalifornia State Superintendent of Indian EducationĬalifornia, U.S. Statistical Summary of Holdings by Record Group NumberĬ Division (National Resources Planning Board)Ĭabinet Committee on Opportunities for Spanish-SpeakingĬable Committee (War Communications Board)Ĭable Division (American Expeditionary Forces)Ĭadastral Surveys, Branch of (Land Management Bureau)Ĭadet Activities Division (Military Academy)Ĭadet Quartermaster Department (Military Academy)Ĭadet Services Division (Military Academy)Ĭadet Subsistence Department (Military Academy)Ĭairo, GA, agriculture experiment stationĬairo, IL, district (Treasury Civil War Special Agency)Ĭalhoun, KY, District (Territorial Court)Ĭaliente, NV, area office (Soil Conservation Service).The updated web version of the Guide can be searched with the The index does not reflect updates to the Guide. This alphabetical index to the Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States is based on a paper version with the same title compiled in 1995. Federal Records Guide: Alphabetical Index - C ![]()
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