Everloving Records was founded in

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, having been Enjoy Records from 2000. With the success of Jack Johnson's debut ''Brushfire Fairytales'' the original, though defunct, Enjoy Records phoned up to reclaim their moniker. Everloving began with Jack's album, which was produced by co-founder J. P. Plunier. The company began when A&R veteran Andy Factor and Plunier partnered, after having worked together for

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. Plunier is Harper's manager and Factor was his A&R man. Shortly after "Brushfire Fairytales", Everloving had a hit with ''

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'' from the film ''

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''. That was composed by Tears for Fears and arranged by Michael Andrews and featured the vocals of

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. It went #1 in the UK at Christmas 2003, two years after the film had come out. Additional forays into film brought the soundtrack to " Dogtown and Z-Boys" and the score to "

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band

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debuted on Everloving, as did Lowell George's daughter

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. Both were produced by Michael Andrews. Everloving's most recent success has been with

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/ surf rock band The Growlers. The Growlers released five studio albums on Everloving: ''Are You In Or Out?'' (2009), '' Hot Tropics EP'' (2010), '' Hung at Heart'' (2013), '' Gilded Pleasures EP'' (2013), '' Chinese Fountain'' (2014) and The Jack Moves ''Cruiserweight'' (2022) Everloving also has management and consulting divisions.

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