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Universal Audio, Inc. was founded alongside the United Recording Corporation by Bill Putnam Sr. in 1958. Putnam’s intention was for Universal Audio to serve as United’s manufacturing arm, with the company initially operating out of the United Recording premises at 6050 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
It is the production site of Universal Studios and is owned by Comcast through its subsidiary NBCUniversal. [1] The lot officially opened the gates of Universal City on March 15, 1915. [2] The lot began offering its modern studio tour in 1964, which eventually evolved into the Universal Studios Hollywood theme park. [3]
Such artists as Patti Page, Vic Damone and Dinah Washington came through the doors; Al Morgan's "Jealous Heart" sold a million copies on the in-house Universal Records label. [ 2 ] In 1949, Universal Recording was granted a patent for "Double Feature", a method for putting two songs on each side of a 10-inch record.
APM Music came to be in 1983 as a joint venture between Zomba/Jive Production Music and EMI Production Music (which now are owned by Universal and Sony, respectively). Sam Trust, former head of ATV, founded APM as a joint-venture between what is now held by Universal (which owns the Kosinus and Bruton library) and Sony (which owns KPM).
In February 1958, MCA acquired Paramount Pictures' pre-1950 sound feature film library [9] for $10 million, through a newly created MCA subsidiary, EMKA, Ltd. In December 1958, MCA bought the 423-acre (1.71 km 2) Universal Studios lot from Universal Pictures for $11,250,000 and renamed it, as well as the actual television unit, Revue Studios. [10]
During this time a variety of recording systems were used, including sound on film formats such as Movietone and RCA Photophone, as well as sound on disc formats like Vitaphone. This list includes film titles, release dates, production companies, audio type and archive status; denoting whether they exist, are lost or incomplete, the film or ...
In the ongoing coverage and analysis of TikTok vs. Universal — where UMG and UMPG have every right to stand up for the value of their artists and songwriter’s work — I hope we hear more ...
The production music market is dominated by libraries affiliated with the large record and publishing companies: Universal Music Publishing Group library music has the music libraries of Chappell Recording Music Library, Bruton, Atmosphere, and others such as Killer Tracks; Concord Music owns Imagem Production Music, formerly Boosey & Hawkes Production Music, which includes the Cavendish ...