Phonogram Records - Citizendia

Phonogram Records was started in 1962 as a joint venture between Philips Records and Deutsche Grammophon. Events January 1 - The Beatles and Brian Poole and the Tremeloes both audition at Decca Records, a company which has the option Philips Records is a Record label that was founded by Dutch electronics giant Philips. Deutsche Grammophon is a German classical Record label. The company has long been known for its high standards of audio fidelity. In 1972, Phonogram was merged with Polydor Records into PolyGram. Events January 17 - Highway 51 South in Memphis Tennessee is renamed " Elvis Presley Blvd" January 20 - Polydor Records is a Record label currently headquartered in the UK, and is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. PolyGram was the name from 1972 of the Major label recording company started by Philips as a holding company for its music interests in 1945

In the US, Phonogram's artists were generally released on Mercury Records, with some releases in parts of Europe issued by Vertigo Records. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Mercury Records is a Record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Music Group in the US and are both subsidiaries of Vertigo Records was the name Philips Records chose in the sixties for its Record label to counter the progressive labels of its rivals EMI (with PolyGram continued until 1998, when the company was purchased by Seagram and merged with Universal Music Group, now owned by Vivendi. For the rapper Seagram, see Seagram Miller The Seagram Company Ltd Universal Music Group (UMG is the largest Business group and family of Record labels in the Recording industry. VIVENDI is a software package for care management and staff organisation published by the German software company CONNEXT and introduced in 1995

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