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Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group.It had significant success as an independent operation in the 1940s and 1950s. Smash Records and Fontana Records were sub labels of Mercury. [1]
Babyface; Bachman–Turner Overdrive; Ross Bagdasarian; Butch Baker; Josephine Baker; The Bama Band; Buju Banton; The Bar-Kays; Count Basie; Axel Bauer; Bee Gees
The still active Mercury Records was formed in Chicago in 1945 issuing recordings in a variety of genres including country music. [10] The Nashville office of Mercury began as a joint venture between Mercury and "Pappy" Daily's established country music record label Starday Records in January 1957.
Jones had executive roles in multiple companies, starting with Mercury Records. Jones began working as a music director for Barclay Disques, Mercury Records' French brand, in 1957 and moved up the ...
Universal Music Group (UMG) owns, or has a joint share in, many of the record labels listed here.. According to the UMG official website, the main labels are Abbey Road Studios, Capitol Music Group, Decca Records, Def Jam Recordings, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Interscope-Geffen-A&M, Island Records, Mercury Records, Motown Records, Polydor Records, Republic Records, Verve Label Group, and Virgin ...
Pages in category "Mercury Records artists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 574 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
A team at Mercury Records also passed on Spears, which just left Jive Records, where only a handful of execs liked her demo tape. "It was in the wrong key," Steve Lunt, an A&R executive for Jive ...
Topics about Mercury Records albums in general should be placed in relevant topic categories This category contains studio albums released on the Mercury Records label. Please move any non-studio albums to an appropriate subcategory per WikiProject Albums guidelines .