Paramount Records (1969)
Paramount Records | |
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Parent company | Famous Music (1969–1974) |
Founded | July 10, 1969 |
Founder | Paramount Pictures |
Status | Defunct, sold to ABC Records in 1974, catalog now owned by Universal Music Group |
Distributor(s) | Self-distributed |
Genre | Pop music Movie soundtracks |
Country of origin | United States |
Paramount Records was a
After Gulf+Western sold its record label holdings to ABC (which happened to have aired the Brady Bunch TV series) in 1974, the Paramount label was discontinued in favor of ABC Records, which itself was sold to MCA Records in 1979. MCA itself had previously purchased Paramount's pre-1950 sound film library in 1958, currently managed by Universal Television subsidiary EMKA, Ltd. The Paramount catalog is now owned by Universal Music Group and managed by Geffen Records (whose founder, David Geffen, later became a co-founder of DreamWorks, which was a sister studio of Paramount from 2006 to 2008, and whose own record catalog is now owned by Universal).
On a side note, MCA continued to release soundtracks to some later Paramount films into the 1990s. Sliding Doors (1998) was the last Paramount release to have its soundtrack issued by MCA.
In 2015, Paramount Pictures revived the label as
See also
- List of record labels
- Paramount Music
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