Ampex Golden Reel Award

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Ampex Golden Reel Award
Awarded for
Ampex Corporation

The Ampex Golden Reel Award was an international

gold record status in its country of origin.[1] In the United States, gold record status requires sales of 500,000 units, as verified by the Recording Industry Association of America
.

When an album or single won the award, one Golden Reel commemorative plaque was given to the musical group/artist, and another to the recording studio.[2] Ampex also made a donation to a charity chosen by the group or artist who received the award.[1][2] They presented the first Golden Reel in 1977, and the 500th in 1986.[1][3] During that period, the amount of each donation was US$1,000.[1] When the 1977 film soundtrack Saturday Night Fever won the Bee Gees their third Golden Reel Award, the band chose to give the money to the Bertha Abbess Children's Center.[4] When Ampex awarded the 250th Golden Reel to US rock band Journey for their 1981 album Escape, the band's chosen charity was the T. J. Martell Leukemia Foundation.[3] The 500th musical act to receive the award was Kool & the Gang, for their 1984 album Emergency.[1]

Some other award recipients from the United States were

Pink Lady in Japan, Supertramp in the UK, Barbadian Artist Charles D. Lewis in Germany and Mango Groove in South Africa.[2][7]

Only one gospel music album ever qualified for the award: Cristy Lane's One Day at a Time (1981). Sales of the album had surged in 1986, owing to a telemarketing campaign orchestrated by her husband.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^
    Ampex Corporation (November 15, 1986). "500 Golden Reel Awards, 500 Golden Opportunities". Billboard
    . p. 55. Retrieved November 22, 2017 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b c d "Streisand: 130th Ampex Golden Reel". Billboard. October 27, 1979. p. 56. Retrieved November 22, 2017 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b "Escape Rings Bell: Journey Given 250th Golden Reel by Ampex". Billboard. December 26, 1981. p. 62. Retrieved November 22, 2017 – via Google Books.
  4. OCLC 1004161732
    . Retrieved November 22, 2017 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Kirby, Kip (July 7, 1979). "Gayle Grabs Golden Reel Second Time". Billboard. p. 40. Retrieved November 22, 2017 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Barber, Marchel'le Renise (September 1985). "Midnight Star's Cincinnati Invasion". Cincinnati. p. 14 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "Reflecting the Past and the Future". Mayibuye: The Journal of the African National Congress: 43. April 1991 – via Google Books.
  8. ISBN 978-1-135-37707-6
    – via Google Books.
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