MCA Records
MCA Records, founded 1962: jazz artists and albums on the label.
MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc. established in 1972, though MCA had released recordings under that name in the United Kingdom from the 1960s. The label achieved success in the 1970s through the 1980s, often by acquiring other record labels, such as ABC, Motown, and Geffen. The MCA record label was folded into Universal Music Group's Geffen Records in 2003, but Universal's now-renamed Music Corporation of America continues to use the MCA moniker.
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Artists on MCA Records
The Roots
1987– · American hip hop band
Larry Carlton
b. 1948 · American guitarist (born 1948)
Jack DeJohnette
1942–2025 · American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer (1942–2025)
Randy Crawford
b. 1952 · American jazz and R&B singer
Yellowjackets
1981– · American musical group; jazz fusion band
Barbara Thompson
1944–2022 · English jazz saxophonist, flutist and composer (1944–2022)
Spyro Gyra
1974– · American jazz band
Walter Murphy
b. 1952 · American composer
Henry Butler
1948–2018 · American musical artist (1949–2018)
Acoustic Alchemy
English jazz band
Bill Summers
b. 1948 · jazz musician
Label profile
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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