LOS ANGELES, CA – Today, Los Angeles-based entertainment company Shout! Factory announced a donation of the profits from website sales of their 4-CD deluxe boxed set Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: The Big Ol’ Box Of New Orleans through the end of 2005. In order to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina, profits will be calculated from purchases made via www.shoutfactory.com and donated to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.
“Our Shout! Factory employees feel a special connection to New Orleans having worked with many New Orleans-based musicians and the very unique and wonderful music originating from that area of the country,” commented Shout! Factory president, Garson Foos. “We unanimously decided donating the profits to our boxed set was a modest yet fitting gesture toward the relief efforts.”
The Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: The Big Ol’ Box Of New Orleans deluxe 4-CD box set includes five hours of music including rock, jazz, soul, funk, R&B, Cajun, blues and Klezmer. It includes greats like Fats Domino, Dr. John, Rebirth Brass Band, BeauSoleil, Buckwheat Zydeco, Earl King, The Meters, The Neville Brothers and Louis Armstrong.
Shout! Factory is a broad-based audio and home video entertainment company whose cofounders Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos share a passion for pop culture of the 20th century and beyond. Video and DVD projects include television programming spanning 75 years, live music concerts, animation and sports collections and special interest documentaries. Audio products from Shout! Factory consist of GRAMMY®-nominated box sets, anthologies and “best of” collections, as well as new music, soundtrack releases, deluxe album reissues and quirky compilations. Shout! Factory’s catalog features vintage and legendary performances from some of the greatest and most eccentric artists of our time. Shout! Factory products are distributed by Sony BMG Music Entertainment Inc.
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