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This was a major problem in arranging the Record Labels section.
There were dedicated umbrella labels for American licenses
Decca had these and they are in the Decca section:
London-American
Felsted-American
Brunswick
Coral, Vogue-Coral
Vocalion, Vogue
EMI had:
Stateside
Top Rank
Columbia Clef
Capitol – part one
Capitol – part two
Capitol – sleeves and designs
Then ABC and United Artists on the HMV label, Okeh and Epic were on Columbia (EMI), as were Cameo-Parkway and Chess at times. King had a spell with Parlophone.
Pye had:
Pye International
Pye International – sleeves and centres
Oriole had:
Oriole-American
Philips had Columbia (CBS) from 1953 to 1962. See:
Philips
Philips – 45 sleeves and centres
Fontana
Fontana – 45 sleeves and centres
They also had Riverside briefly:
Riverside
Increasingly American labels wanted their own UK imprints and started to get them from major distributors, so Pye had labels for Chess, Cameo-Parkway, Hickory.
EMI owned Capitol, but had own label deals with MGM at first (and Verve acted as an MGM sub-label within EMI) , then added Mercury / Emarcy, and as the 60s wore on they were lots … United Artists, Tamla-Motown (itself an umbrella for the various Motown labels), Bell, Paramount, Dot, Asylum, Invictus, Fantasy, Neighborhood, Power Exchange, MoWest, Rare Earth. MGM was the ‘fourth’ EMI label for much of the 50s and early 60s.
For most of the 50s and 60s, RCA was one of Decca’s three major labels … Decca, London., RCA.
Columbia (USA) were the major source of hits for Philips until 1962. Philip’s sister label, Fontana, was used for several US labels, such as Prestige.
It gets complicated because distribution deals changed.
Capitol will be in the EMI section, but although EMI owned, were distributed by rival Decca until 1955.
Columbia (US) wound up its Philips link, and started on its own in 1962 as CBS (buying Oriole to get the studios and distribution).
RCA stayed with Decca until they opened their own RCA London office.
Several switched to Polygram, who were readier to let labels have their own imprint, MGM among them.
The labels will be listed here in alphabetical order as articles are completed.
Audio-Fidelity
Brunswick (US Decca)
Capitol – part one
Capitol – part two
Capitol – sleeves and designs
Clef
Coral, Vogue-Coral
Dunhill (Stateside-Dunhill )
Grunt
Speciality (Ember)
Vocalion, Vogue
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