Compo Company
| Industry | Parent Independent (1918-1951) | Decca U.S. (1951–1970) |
|---|
Compo Company Ltd. was Canada's first independent record company.[1]
The Compo Company was founded in 1918 in Lachine, Quebec, by Herbert Berliner, an executive of Berliner Gramophone of Canada and the oldest son of disc record inventor Emile Berliner.
Compo was created to serve the several American independent record companies which wanted to distribute records in Canada, such as
Apex
record labels, among others. Apex was the longest lasting of the Compo labels, lasting into the 1970s.
Compo was one of only two Canadian record companies to survive the
Sony Music Entertainment
in Canada).
Warner Bros. Records used Compo as its Canadian distributor[2] until it established its own Canadian branch in 1967. That branch later became Warner Music Canada
.
In 1935, Compo became the Canadian licensee for the American
Universal Music
Canada.
See also
- Music of Canada
- Apex Records (Canada)
References
- ^ http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/m2/f1/nlc006573-v6.jpg [bare URL image file]
- ^ Billboard - Google Books. Books.google.com (1965-08-21). Retrieved on 2013-07-16.
