MCA Records

MCA Records, gegründet 1962: Jazzkünstler und Alben des Labels.

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Multinational record label active outside the US and Canada from 1967, and inclusive of US and Canada from December, 1972.
Label Code: LC 1056 / LC 01056
It was also the name of MCA Inc.'s recorded music division from early 1970 when the US company Decca Records was renamed, to April, 1971 when it was folded into MCA Records, Inc.

Music Corporation of America (MCA) was founded in Chicago in 1924 as a talent agency by Dr. Jules Stein and Mr. William R. Goodheart, Jr. MCA began to produce TV shows in the late 1940s. In 1958 MCA acquired the Universal Studios property and also Paramount's pre-1948 film library for its MCA TV division.

In 1962, MCA's principal corporation, MCA Inc., acquired Decca Records, Inc. (the American Decca company), which had Brunswick and Coral imprints. "British Decca" then licensed recordings from American Decca for release on the Brunswick and Coral labels in the UK, until February, 1968, when British Decca began using the yellow swirl MCA Records brand for these releases.

American Decca launched MCA Records in the US in June, 1970 as a recorded music division (replacing Decca Records), followed by a label in the last week of November, 1972. The only

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