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Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It had significant success as an independent operation in the 1940s and 1950s. Smash Records and Fontana Records were sub labels of Mercury. [1] Mercury Records released rock, funk, R&B, doo wop, soul music, blues, pop, rock and roll, and jazz records.
Babyface; Bachman–Turner Overdrive; Ross Bagdasarian; Butch Baker; Josephine Baker; The Bama Band; Buju Banton; The Bar-Kays; Count Basie; Axel Bauer; Bee Gees
Universal Music Group (UMG) owns, or has a joint share in, many of the record labels listed here.. According to the UMG official website, the main labels are Abbey Road Studios, Capitol Music Group, Decca Records, Def Jam Recordings, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Interscope-Geffen-A&M, Island Records, Mercury Records, Motown Records, Polydor Records, Republic Records, Verve Label Group, and Virgin ...
The still active Mercury Records was formed in Chicago in 1945 issuing recordings in a variety of genres including country music. [10] The Nashville office of Mercury began as a joint venture between Mercury and "Pappy" Daily's established country music record label Starday Records in January 1957.
Category: Mercury Records artists. ... This is a category for articles on recording artists who had at least one recording issued on the Mercury Records label.
Wing Records was a record label subsidiary of Mercury Records founded in 1955, [1] that found its greatest success during the late 1950s. In 1986, the label was revived by Mercury's parent company, PolyGram [2] and the label had brief success with R&B singers Vanessa Williams, Lace, Tony! Toni! Toné!, Channel 2, and Brian McKnight. McKnight ...
In the U.S. Phonogram artists were generally released on Mercury Records, but the label is independent from its U.K. counterpart. By 1982, Mercury and all other PolyGram owned labels including, RSO, Polydor, Total Experience and Casablanca carried the following wording "Manufactured And Marketed by PolyGram Records" with the PolyGram Records logo.
Topics about Mercury Records albums in general should be placed in relevant topic categories This category contains studio albums released on the Mercury Records label. Please move any non-studio albums to an appropriate subcategory per WikiProject Albums guidelines .