Regal Recordings
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Regal Recordings | |
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Regal Zonophone) 1995 (current relaunch) | |
Distributor(s) | Parlophone (United Kingdom) Warner Records (United States) WEA International Inc. (world) Rhino Entertainment (reissues) |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Location | London |
Regal Recordings is a British record label functioning as an imprint of Parlophone Records.
Background
Regal Records was a British record label founded in 1913 as a subsidiary of the UK branch of Columbia Records, known as the Columbia Graphophone Company.
The first record issues on the Regal Record label in February 1914 were re-issues of existing records from the Columbia Record Catalogue: G-6105 to G-6559, G-6440, G 6441 (English Catalogue) and G 6560 to G 6639 (Scottish Catalogue). Catalogue numbers starting from G 6000 were used at later dates.[1]
In November 1921, 12 inch records were introduced, commencing at catalogue number G-1000.[1]
From around 1923 onwards many earlier recordings were re-recorded acoustically and released under the same catalogue number as the originals. For catalogue numbers below G-7963 (released July 1923) these may usually be identified by a matrix commencing with an 'A', rather than being completely numeric.[1]
The
From March 1930, all new releases were prefixed in the catalogue by 'MR', commencing at MR1.[1]
In 1932, it was merged with the British
Regal today
In 1995, the Regal label was revived by EMI as the