Coral
Coral, founded 1949: jazz artists and albums on the label.
Coral Records was a subsidiary of Decca Records that was formed in 1949. Coral released music by Patsy Cline, Buddy Holly, the McGuire Sisters and Teresa Brewer. Coral was started by Decca in 1949 as a subsidiary that initially focused on jazz and swing material but after Bob Thiele took over the label in 1954, he shifted to mainstream pop and rock acts such as Buddy Holly, the McGuire Sisters, Johnny Desmond, Eileen Barton, Jackie Wilson, Lawrence Welk, and Steve Lawrence that did not fit the main Decca label's classier, upmarket image. He also produced hit songs by his future wife, Teresa Brewer. Coral stopped issuing new material in 1971. In 1973, MCA amalgamated Decca, Kapp Records, and Uni Records under the single MCA Records banner, and Coral was repositioned as a mid-line and budget album reissue label in the U.S. and internationally. That version of Coral (MCA Coral) lasted into the 1980s.
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Artists on Coral
Patti Austin
b. 1950 · American singer
Pete Fountain
1930–2016 · American clarinetist (1930–2016)
Lawrence Welk
1903–1992 · American musician, bandleader, and impresario (1903–1992)
Raymond Scott
1908–1994 · American composer, bandleader, pianist, record producer…
Bob Crosby
1913–1993 · American dixieland bandleader and vocalist (1913–1993)
Buddy Greco
1926–2017 · American singer and pianist (1926–2017)
Georgie Auld
1919–1990 · Canadian jazz musician (1919-1990)
Eddie Costa
1930–1962 · American jazz musician; pianist and vibraphonist (1930–1962)
Johnny Desmond
1919–1985 · American pop singer (1919–1985)
Trudy Pitts
1933–2010 · African-American jazz musician (1932-2010)
Label profile
US label, also credited as "Coral Record" or "Coral Records".
Label Code: LC 0166 / LC 00166
Coral was launched as the "independent" counterpart of the Decca label in 1948. It recorded bandleaders like Bob Crosby in the beginning but it was under the A&R direction of Bob Thiele that Coral hit the bigtime with Teresa Brewer, the McGuire Sisters, Debbie Reynolds, Lawrence Welk mainstays The Lennon Sisters and early rock and rollers Buddy Holly and the Johnny Burnette Trio on its roster.
The label was operated by Coral Records, Inc. and was also active in the UK.
The parent company was acquired in 1962 by MCA, Inc. Artists who had records issued on Coral during the Sixties included Bobbi Martin, Barbara McNair, a pre-stardom Patti Austin and Dixieland clarinetist Pete Fountain, who was the label's most consistent artist.
As the decade wore on, the hits and album sales, apart from Fountain, declined. In 1968, Lawrence Welk bought the masters to his own recordings and the contracts of his musical associates from both Coral and Dot Records and moved them all to his own Ranwood label. Parent company MCA moved Decca to California, bringing Coral with it in 1970. It was then decided to d
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