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(Columbia Records had originally co-founded CBS in 1927 along with New York talent agent Arthur Judson, but soon cashed out of the partnership leaving only the name; Paley acquired the fledgling radio network in 1928.) On January 3, 1939, Wallerstein left RCA Victor to become president of the CBS phonograph subsidiary, a position he would hold ...
From 1967 to 1973, Davis was the president of Columbia Records. He was founder and president of Arista Records from 1974 through 2000 until founding J Records.
In 1966, CBS Records was made a separate subsidiary of the Columbia Broadcasting System. [142] CBS sold the CBS Records Group to Sony on November 17, 1987, initiating a Japanese buying spree of American companies, including MCA , Pebble Beach Co. , Rockefeller Center , and even the Empire State Building , which continued into the 1990s.
A partial listing of recording artists who currently or formerly recorded for Columbia Records (known in most of the world as CBS Records prior to 1991) include the following list. This list of songs or music-related items is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
On May 22, 1939, Columbia Recording Corporation, Inc., was incorporated with the State of Delaware, [1] and became the CBS phonograph subsidiary. The New York Department of State shows a later incorporation date of April 4, 1947. This corporation changed its name to Columbia Records, Inc. on October 11, 1954, and reverted to CRC on January 2, 1962.
Columbia House was an umbrella brand for Columbia Records' mail-order music clubs, the primary iteration of which was the Columbia Record Club, established in 1955. The Columbia House brand was introduced in the early 1970s by Columbia Records (a division of CBS, Inc. ), and had a significant market presence in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.
Hancock is filling the role recently vacated by former Columbia A&R co-heads Imran Majid and Justin Eshak, who last month were officially named co-CEOs of Universal Music Group’s Island Records ...
CBS Records International was the international arm of the Columbia Records unit of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. formed in 1961 and launched in 1962. [1] [2] Previously, Columbia Records had licensed other record companies to manufacture and distribute Columbia recordings outside North America, such as Philips Records and its subsidiary Fontana (now part of the Universal Music Group) in ...