Concord Music puts a new spin on classic records — a lucrative new spin:
It should come as no surprise that a company backed by Norman Lear knows how to make creative use of television. Lear, the TV superproducer who created “All in the Family,” “One Day at a Time,” and other hit shows, is one of the owners of Concord Music Group.Concord funded a documentary that ran recently on PBS called “Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story,” about the groundbreaking Memphis label that released albums by Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, the Staple Singers, and others. What most viewers didn’t know was that Concord had recently bought the rights to the Stax recordings. Sales jumped after the documentary aired.