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Polydor Records was founded on 2 April 1913 by German Polyphon-Musikwerke AG in Leipzig and registered on 25 July 1914 (Nr. 316613). The label was founded as Firma Brachhausen & Riesener in 1887 by Gustav Adolf Brachhausen and Ernst Paul Riessner, for manufacturing their new mechanical disc-playing music box Polyphon, invented in 1870. [3]
Spring Records was an American record label established in New York City in 1967. It was formed out of an artist and production management company set up earlier by Bill Spitalsky, Roy Rifkind and Jules "Julie" Rifkind. The label name came from their surnames, "Sp" for Spitalsky and "ri" for Rifkind. [1] It was associated with the Polydor group ...
PolyGram N.V. was a multinational major music record label and entertainment company formerly based in the Netherlands.It was founded in 1962 as the Grammophon-Philips Group by Dutch corporation Philips and German corporation Siemens, to be a holding for their record companies, and was renamed "PolyGram" in 1972.
By 1980, PolyGram consolidated all of its U.S. operations, Phonogram, Inc. Mercury Records, RSO, Casablanca and Polydor Records and associated labels into PolyGram Records and it was based in New York City. Under the new company, PolyGram decided to discontinue Philips as a pop and rock label in the UK and throughout much of Europe, though it ...
Besides Mercury's mono and stereo versions of the 1812, only one other classical album rang up gold-record sales in the 1950s in the U.S. [25] The New York Times music critic Howard Taubman described the Mercury sound on Pictures at an Exhibition as "being in the living presence of the orchestra" [26] and Mercury eventually began releasing ...
A&M Records is an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in late 1962. Due to the success of the discography A&M released, the label garnered interest and was acquired by PolyGram in 1989 and began distributing releases from Polydor Ltd. from the UK.
Hicks was born and grew up in Petersburg, Virginia, and studied at Howard University. [3]Initially a gospel singer, [2] she recorded commercial secular music in the late 1970s, first releasing her debut single "Looking Over My Shoulder" in 1978, [4] before being a member of the short-lived quintet Eighties Ladies.
E/Eels (signed directly to Polydor US from 1992 to 1993, Polydor UK later distributed his works with Eels on behalf of DreamWorks Records) Elbow (Polydor UK) Sophie Ellis-Bextor; Electric Light Orchestra (Polydor UK) Ellie Goulding (Polydor UK) Emma Bunton (Polydor UK) Emma's Imagination (Polydor UK) Emerson Lake & Powell; Eminem (Polydor UK)