Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a German-British record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon. The British branch of the label was founded on 8 August 1923 as the Parlophone Company Limited (the Parlophone Co. Ltd.), which developed a reputation in the 1920s as a jazz record label. On 5 October 1926, the Columbia Graphophone Company acquired Parlophone's business, name, logo, and release library, and merged with the Gramophone Company on 31 March 1931 to become Electric & Musical Industries Limited (EMI). George Martin joined Parlophone in 1950 as assistant to Oscar Preuss (who had set up the London branch of the company in 1923), the label manager, taking over as manager in 1955. Martin produced and released a mix of recordings, including by comedian Peter Sellers, pianist Mrs Mills, and teen idol Adam Faith.
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Artists on Parlophone
John Dankworth
1927–2010 · British musician (1927-2010)
Stacey Kent
b. 1968 · American recording artist; singer
John Scott
b. 1930 · English composer and conductor (born 1930)
Humphrey Lyttelton
1921–2008 · English jazz trumpeter (1921–2008)
Trio Lescano
1936– · Hungarian-Dutch-Italian vocal group
Harry Roy
1900–1971 · British dance band leader and clarinet player (1900-1971)
Harlan Lattimore
1908–1980 · American singer (1908–1980)
Label profile
Multinational label.
Label Code: LC 0299 / LC 00299
Please note, many Parlophone issues also carry an EMI logo. This is not a label and EMI should not be added as a label, it instead indicates that Parlophone was part of the EMI Group.
Parlophone is an anglicization of the German Parlophon label, registered as a trademark for talking machines in 1902 by Max Straus and Heinrich Zuntz of Salon Kinematograph Co. GmbH, later merged into Carl Lindström A.-G.. The first Parlophon records are pressed in 1910.
By 1923, Parlophone proper appears in London administered by English Lindström branch known as , pressed in London and sold domestically. This marks the return of the German conglomerate to the British market since 1915, when their Hertford record plant had been seized and soon acquired by , who leased it to Lindström to make Parlophone records. Early on, its catalogue greatly relied on imported recordings originally made for Lindström's own imprints Beka, Parlophon, Odeon (including Argentine tango recordings) and their American partner Okeh alongside a slowly growing repertoire of new British recordings and a small number of pre-war recordings. After World War II, Parlophone iss
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