Dreidel Records

Dreidel Recordings and Filmworks was an American record label as well as film and television production company founded in 1976 by Carl Andy which was distributed and funded in part by CBS Records, following his 1975 Columbia record Big Big Band and the release of the movie Toby, Andy signed a new deal with CBS that allowed him creative control and to establish a label of his own to be distributed by them, aside from handling his records, he also signed other artists and bands along the way such as Scottish pop rock group Taking Back Friday and Japanese pop idol Seiko Matsuda.

Dreidel also produced movies and television series, mainly films directed by Carl Andy himelf, most of these movies were released by Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Bros. Pictures.

Following the failure of Astro Boy, Andy's stock was down, and so he sold the label to CBS Records (which had just been bought by Sony the prior year) in 1989 (along with some active contracts to the main Columbia and Epic labels) and the division shut down with the releases of Shalom Aleichem and the soundtrack to The Mamiya House, the Movie and TV arm was also sold to frequent Andy collaborator and friend Garrett Fredrickson to turn his Nightstorm Entertainment label into a fully fledged production company.

Filmography

 * The Hollywood Connection (1980) co-production with Paramount Pictures
 * Sea of Troubles (1980) co-production with Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures
 * Little Caesar (1980) co-production with Orion Pictures, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
 * Space Firebird (1982) Re-edit of a 1980 Japanese film, co-production with The Ladd Company and Tezuka-USA Productions, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
 * Faith of a Rabbi (1982) co-production with Walt Disney Productions and Neue Constantin Film
 * The Cat Creeps (1983) co-production with Universal Pictures
 * The Last Days of the Sun (1984) Re-edit of a 1983 Japanese film, co-production with The Geffen Company, Act III Communications and Madhouse, released by Warner Bros. Pictures
 * Taking Back Friday: Rising Sun (1985) co-production with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
 * The Boy from the Blue (1985) co-production with 20th Century Fox
 * Vegas Shuffle (1986) co-production with Universal Pictures
 * The Booter (1987) co-production with Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures and The Turman-Foster Company
 * Rabbit Hole (1988) co-production with Columbia Pictures
 * Dollhouse (1989) co-production with Universal Pictures, final production

Credit only
Films that Dreidel merely picked up, all 3 were released by Orion Classics.


 * Wandering Clouds (1982) released in 1984
 * Gwen: The Book of Sand (1985) released in 1986
 * The Journey to Melonia (1989) released in 1990