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Rock record labels
- Capitol RecordsOn the 2nd of February 1942, songwriter Johnny Mercer met with Glenn Wallichs at a restaurant in Hollywood to discuss an investment from Paramount Pictures.
- Interscope RecordsJimmy Iovine stood in a Westwood office building on 10900 Wilshire Boulevard in late 1990 and declared that music was about to change.
- Sire RecordsSire Records began in 1966 as Sire Productions. Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer each invested ten thousand dollars to launch the company.
- ParlophoneCarl Lindström Company founded Parlophon in Germany during 1896. The name appeared on gramophones before the firm began pressing records of its own.
- Columbia RecordsOn the 15th of January 1889, a stenographer named Edward D. Easton founded the Columbia Phonograph Company in Washington, D.C.
- Polydor RecordsOn the 2nd of April 1913, German Polyphon-Musikwerke AG founded Polydor Records in Leipzig. The label began as a mechanical music box manufacturer called…
- Capitol Music GroupCapitol Music Group emerged in February 2007 as a merger of Capitol Records and Virgin Records America. EMI orchestrated this union to restructure operations…
- Atco RecordsHerb Abramson returned to Atlantic Records from military service in 1955 and devised a new label outlet. The planned name for this venture was Atlas, but the…