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Also appears as "Mercury Record Corp." and "Mercury Records Corp." The legal parent of the Mercury label (and its subsidiaries) from its formation on March 1st, 1947, to the mid 1960s, when it was doubled with Mercury Record Productions, Inc., which superseded it by 1971. Circa 1970 this was the parent company of , , , , , and . At that time, it was a product of , and a North American Philips Company. NOTES: 1. This is a record company, not a label. Please use Mercury or the appropriate subsidiary as the label. 2. This company should not be used for any releases after 1971, except for repressings of albums originally released in or before 1971 that say "Mercury Record Corporation" on the cover.
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Clayson Plastic Products
California corporation number 200905. Los Angeles, California record pressing plant owned by Mercury Record Corporation, from April, 1947 to closing in July 1958 upon Mercury's purchase of the ...
EmArcy
Multinational label; also appears as "EmArcy Records". Label Code: LC 0699 / LC 00699 Founded in 1954 by Bob Shad as a subsidiary jazz label of and is today owned by ....
Blue Rock
Blue Rock was a US label specializing in Blues, R&B and Soul. It was launched in late 1964 by the Mercury Record Corporation. The label's recordings were produced in-house or were leased from ...
Mercury Wing
Association of labels & . Catalog numbers are 'WC XXXXX', 'MGC XXXXX', 'MGW XXXXX' (mono), 'SRW XXXXX' (stereo), 'PKW-2-XXX' (2LP's). Also add as co-label if it appears o...
Mercury Emarcy Jazz
US label.
Richmond Record Pressings, Inc.
Mercury American vinyl pressing and plating plant, operating under this name between October 1961 and 1966. The former Decca Records Pressing Plant, Richmond, IN, plant was bought by Mer...
Mercury Española
Spanish Mercury branch, active in the late 50s/60s. Impuesto de lujo: Permiso Nº 4031
National Record Pressings, Inc.
Formerly , this pressing plant was acquired by in May, 1958, as a wholly owned subsidiary. It was operated under this name until the 1961 acquisition of Mercury by Philips-owned ...
Wing Record Corp.
US record company. For the label, see Wing Records.
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35 E. Wacker Drive Chicago, Illinois 60601 (Contact info now obsolete)