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Sill produced the 1951 [[Jimmy Witherspoon]] effort "Real Ugly Woman," the first recorded Leiber and Stoller collaboration.<ref name="Simpson 2003 p. 135"/>
*'''Spark Records'''
Sill and Federal Records producer/talent scout [[Ralph Bass]] formed a PR agency, Brisk Enterprises,<ref name="Brisk Enterprises">{{cite magazine | last= Sippel| first= Johnny| date= 23 August 1952| title= Block Booking Promoters Hype Coast 1-Nitht Outlook| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=PB8EAAAAMBAJ| page= 19| magazine= BillBoard| location= United States| publisher= Nielsen Business Media, Inc.| access-date = 4 November 2019}}</ref> and following the success of the duo's [[Big Mama Thornton]] hit "[[Hound Dog (song)|Hound Dog]]", Sill partnered with Leiber and Stoller to create [[Spark Records]], and the publishing firm, Quintet Music, Inc. in 1953. Spark enjoyed immediate success with [[The Robins]]' R&B smash "[[Riot in Cell Block Number 9|Riot in Cell Block #9]]". The group's follow-up, "Smokey Joe's Café," proved an even bigger hit, in fact too big for the small label to handle. So in 1955 Spark sold its catalog to [[Atlantic Records]], which in turn named Sill its national sales manager while giving Leiber and Stoller an independent production deal. While the deal prompted the breakup of The Robins, members [[Carl Gardner]] and [[Bobby Nunn (doowop musician)|Bobby Nunn]] continued on as [[The Coasters]], with Sill serving as their manager.<ref name="history-of-rock.com 2019">{{cite web | title=Jerry Leiber and Michael Stoller | website=history-of-rock.com | date=2019-11-07 | url=https://www.history-of-rock.com/leiber.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191107184205/https://www.history-of-rock.com/leiber.htm | archive-date=2019-11-07 | url-status=dead | access-date=2019-11-07}}</ref>
* '''Jamie Records / Dick Clark'''
Sill's partner, Lee Hazlewood brought on a young Duane Eddy and began writing songs with him. Sill had also recently partnered with Dick Clark in Jamie Records. Eddy's first song, Movin' and Groovin' was a moderate success.<ref name="Wood p. 165 Eddy, Clark, Jamie" /> With the help pf Clarke's, ''American Bandstand'' television show, his next release, "RebelRouser" earned a #6 on the Billboard 100.<ref name="AllMusic RebelRouser"/>
{{Blockquote|text= Duane Eddy, Lee Hazlewood, Dick Clark, and Jamie Records together comprised one of the greatest hit-producing machines in rock'n'roll history. Eddy performed fifteen of his first sixteen Jamie releases on Clark's national TV show, and the guitarist's first eighteen releases for the label appeared on the ''Billboard's'' Hot 100. Beginning with "Rebel-'Rouser" in 1958, Eddy remained on ''Billboard's'' Hot 100 for an almost uninterrupted three-year period.
|author=John Jackson
|title = American Bandstand: Dick Clark and the Making of a Rock 'n' Roll Empire
|source= Oxford University Press (1999)<ref name="Jackson 1999 p. 128"/>
}}
* '''Trey Records '''
Sill also enjoyed chart success with producer-songwriter [[Lee Hazlewood]] on 1958's "[[Rebel-'Rouser|Rebel Rouser]]", the most notable of the Top 40 instrumentals headlined by the renowned guitarist [[Duane Eddy]] and issued on the [[Dick Clark]]-owned [[Jamie Records|Jamie]] label. In late 1959, Sill and Hazlewood formed Trey Records, a Hollywood-based imprint distributed by Atlantic.
Trey Records signings included Phil Spector, fresh off the success of his group [[The Teddy Bears]]', chart-topping pop classic, "[[To Know Him Is to Love Him]]". Sill allowed Spector to live in his Sherman Oaks home, sharing a room with Joel Sill<ref name="Ribowsky 2000 p. 54">{{cite book | last=Ribowsky | first=M. | title=He's a Rebel: Phil Spector, Rock and Roll's Legendary Producer | publisher=Cooper Square Press | series=G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-8154-1044-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jsQRwiwtlN0C&pg=PA54 | access-date=2019-11-07 | page=53-62}}</ref> Spector worked as an apprentice to Leiber and Stoller, a studio musician and studio technician.<ref name="nyt Spector Dead"/>
* '''Gregmark'''