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January 06, 2023

For the unrelated record label of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, see ABC Music.

ABC Records was an American record label founded in New York City in 1955. It originated as the main popular music label operated by the Am-Par Record Corporation. Am-Par also created the Impulse! jazz label in 1960. It acquired many labels before ABC was sold to MCA Records in 1979. ABC produced music in a variety of genres: pop, rock, jazz, country, rhythm and blues, soundtrack, gospel, and polka. In addition to producing records, ABC licensed masters from independent record producers, and purchased regionally released records for national distribution.

ABC Records
Parent companyAmerican Broadcasting Company
Founded1955; 68 years ago (1955)
Defunct1989; 34 years ago (1989)
StatusSold to MCA Records: Defunct
Distributor(s)Self-distributed (US), EMI (international), Anchor Records (UK), Sparton Records (Canada), Polydor Records (Canada), GRT (Canada)
GenreVarious
Country of originUnited States
LocationNew York City

The label was initially called Am-Par Records (1955), but quickly changed to ABC-Paramount Records (1955–1966), and then renamed ABC Records in 1966.[1][2]

History

Background

In the 1940s and early 1950s, the Federal Communications Commission took action against the Anti-competitive practices of movie studios and broadcasting companies, forcing the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) to sell the Blue Network, the sister network of NBC Red Network, in 1943. The Blue Network was purchased by Edward J. Noble, who changed the company's name to the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in 1946. In 1953, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, the divested former exhibition/cinema division of Paramount Pictures, with the newly-merged corporation, American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres (AB-PT) chaired by former Paramount Theaters executive Leonard Goldenson and headquartered at 1501 Broadway in New York City, above the Paramount Theater in Times Square.[3][4]

ABC-Paramount Records

 
ABC Paramount 78rpm record and original sleeve

American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres formed a records division, incorporating the Am-Par Record Corporation on June 14, 1955 with Samuel H. Clark as its first president.[5][6] By August 1955, the unit was organized with AMPCO (ASCAP) and PAMCO (BMI) as subsidiary publishing units.[7] Though the record label was established as Am-Par, no records were released until after the division's name was changed to ABC-Paramount in September 1955.[1]

Eydie Gorme was the company's first signed artist. The company recorded its first single record, "Sincerely Yours" and "Come Home", both by Gorme. Alec Templeton's "Smart Alec" was the company's first LP recorded, also in September 1955.[7]

One of Gorme's singles was its first release in January 1956.[7][8] "Chain Gang" by Bobby Scott in February 1956 was the company's first national hit. George Hamilton IV's "A Rose and a Baby Ruth" single was Am-Paramount's first million-selling single in October 1956.[7]

In 1957, the company had two million-selling single in June with "Diana" by Paul Anka and in October with "At the Hop" by Danny & the Juniors. Am-Paramount Records in May 1958 debut the Apt subsidiary label with its first million-selling single, "Little Star" by the Elegants, released the same month.[7]

Chancellor Records had Am-Par Record Corporation handle its distribution starting in 1957 and started a trend. Chancellor had its first million-selling single in October 1958 with Lloyd Price's "Stagger Lee".[9][7]

Am-Par purchased Grand Award Records including the newly formed Command Records label, in 1959.[7] The company started a second label for jazz, Impulse! Records, in November 1960.[7][10] Impulse released its first four records in January 1961.[7]

The company had artists that earned three Grammy Awards in 1960.[7] While in January 1961, the company purchased Westminster Records, a classical label. Thus Am-Par Record had a label for each music genre.[7]

Am-Par Record Corporation was renamed to ABC-Paramount Records, Inc. on December 7, 1961.[6] The company opened a Los Angeles office in January 1962. Ray Charles formed Tangerine Records in March 1962 and arranged for ABC-Paramount to distribute Tangerine's records. The company formed Jet Record Distributors based in Long Island City, N.Y. as its local distributor. Also in 1962, the company had acquired Music Guild label and library for Westminster Records.[7]

In 1965, Clark was promoted to vice-president in charge of AB-PT's non-broadcast operations. National sales manager Larry Newton was named ABC-Paramount president.[5] On January 4, 1965, vice-president in charge of sales Larry Newton was promoted to president of ABC-Paramount Records. The previous president, Sam Clark was promoted to director of theater operations for American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres. Newton's first action as president was to restart Apt Records as a teen-oriented West Coast base label under Irwin Garr.[11]

ABC Records

In June 1966, the label was renamed ABC Records,[2] and the company acquired New Deal Record Service Corp., a rack-jobbing and record distribution company, along with its affiliates.[12]

In 1967, Dunhill Records was purchased from Lou Adler.[13] In 1970, ABC and Dunhill moved its headquarters to Los Angeles. Newton was promoted to vice-president in charge of ABC Pictures. Dunhill co-owner Jay Lasker was named president and referred to the combined operations as ABC/Dunhill. At that time ABC had another five labels: Westminster, Command, Probe, Impulse, and Bluesway.[14]

At the August 29, 1970 Directors Guild meeting, ABC/Dunhill launched a number of marketing initiatives. The company planned to have writers create a broader music for the catalog market. Imprints Probe and Apt were relaunched, Probe as an label which held the international rights to ABC's albums and Apt as a label which released budget cassettes and 8-track tapes. Jazz dropped from Impulse's cover for a new slogan: "University Series of Fine Recording" and two new series were launched: Audio Treasury and Westminster Gold for classic and youth fare respectively.[15]

By May 1972, ABC formed the ABC Leisure Group, which included ABC Records, Anchor Records, and ABC Records and Tape Sales, plus a new retail record-store division.[16] Lasker left ABC to join Ariola America Records in 1975.[17] He was succeeded by Jerry Rubinstein, who served as company head until 1977.[18] In November 1972, ABC bought country music company Cartwheel Records.[19]

In 1974, ABC switched British distribution from EMI to the EMI-distributed Anchor Records, allowing ABC recordings to be issued on the ABC label in the UK, and Anchor records to be distributed by ABC on the Anchor label in the US.[20] Also in 1974, ABC acquired Famous Music Records Group including Nashville based Dot Records[21] then began releasing ABC country music under the ABC/Dot label until January 1979.[22]

As a cost-cutting measure, ABC Records discarded many master tapes in the 1970s to save storage space. When these recordings were reissued on compact disc in the 1980s, CD versions were often taken from master copies which had less than optimal sound quality.[23] The company's last president, Steve Diener, was named to that job in 1977 after serving as head of ABC Records' international division.[24] Because of financial problems except for its Nashville office, ABC Records was sold on January 31, 1979 to MCA Records with ABC Records being its third label likely under a different name.[22] Instead, MCA discontinued ABC Records on March 5, 1979 and[25] albums in the ABC catalog still selling well were reissued on MCA.[26]

Diener died in April 2019, aged 80.[27]

Acquisitions

ABC Records sub-labeled Apt to release singles. In the early 1960s, it bought Westminster, a classical music label. For jazz it created Impulse!. Led by Creed Taylor and Bob Thiele, Impulse! developed a reputation for innovative releases, including albums by John Coltrane from 1961 until his death in 1967. ABC created Bluesway for blues music. Tangerine was formed by Ray Charles to produce his albums and those he produced.

ABC Records bought Dunhill in the summer of 1967, forming ABC Dunhill Records. It also bought Don Robey's record labels, including Duke, Peacock, Back Beat, and Song Bird on May 23, 1973.

In 1974 ABC bought the Famous Music record labels from Gulf and Western, the parent company of Paramount. This acquisition gave ABC Dot, Blue Thumb, and a distribution deal with Sire, which released the first album from the Ramones.

ABC purchased all labels from Enoch Light in October 1959. It acquired Audition, Command,[28] Colortone, and Waldorf Music Hall.[29]

In 1979, ABC was acquired by MCA for $30 million.[3] It operated briefly as a separate division. MCA was absorbed by the Universal Music Group, which currently distributes recordings for ABC's current sister company, Disney Music Group, worldwide except for Russia.

This is not the same ABC Records that operates in Australia, which is run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, although the Ampar label was distributed in Australia in the 1950s and 1960s, first by W&G Records (1955–60) and then by Festival.[30][31] Nor is it the sub-label of Voiceprint.

ABC-Paramount/ABC Records label variations

  • 1955–1961: Black label, "ABC-PARAMOUNT" around top perimeter of label in yellow, red, and blue (repeating in that sequence) Venus medium font, with silver print for singles and the company's name in all white letters in Venus medium and silver print for albums and logo consisting of color spectrum Möbius strip and white jagged line (representing a sound wave). Bottom perimeter of label reads: "A PRODUCT OF AM-PAR RECORD CORP."
  • 1961–1966: Same label as above, but disclaimer at bottom of label now reads: "A PRODUCT OF ABC-PARAMOUNT RECORDS, INC."
  • 1966–1967: Label name now shortened to ABC Records. Black label with large white circle at top with "abc" in black letters and the "Möbius strip and sound wave" logo under the letters. This variant was used only for singles.
  • 1967–1974: Black label with small white "abc" circle logo in color spectrum box at top (In conjunction with this label, a brief interim label was used from 1973 to 1974 consisting of three children's blocks spelling out ABC and one block with the "abc" logo in a white triangle at the top).
  • 1974–1978: Yellow, orange, red and purple "sunburst" label with "abc Records" (black "abc" circle logo) between two black lines at top. (Note: The other ABC labels would also adopt this label, such as Dunhill, Dot, Blue Thumb with its logo next to the "abc" logo, and Backbeat and Impulse with a green background rather than a yellow background, but the circles were the same.)
  • 1978–1979: Same multi-colored label as above, but with 1/8 note featuring "abc" inside the bottom of the note. Late pressings show "Mfg. & Dist. by MCA Distributing Corp..." at the bottom perimeter, just before the ABC label was discontinued and its artists transferred to MCA.

Artists associated with ABC Records and its labels

Labels associated with ABC Records

Management of ABC Records catalog today

The catalogs of ABC Records and its sub-labels are now controlled by Universal Music Group. UMG also distributes Disney Music Group, which is owned by ABC's current parent, The Walt Disney Company, with the following exceptions:

The following labels manage different genres:

  • Pop, rock, R&B: Geffen
  • Jazz: Impulse!, Impulse!/Verve
  • Country: Universal Music Group Nashville
  • Classical: Deutsche Grammophon
  • Musical theater: Decca Broadway

These labels also produce releases from labels absorbed into ABC. For example, MCA Nashville's catalog includes country releases on Dot Records. Deutsche Grammophon's catalog includes the Westminster Records catalog, as well as soundtracks released by Dot and Paramount Records.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Am-Par Alters Label Name to ABC-Param't". Billboard. September 24, 1955. p. 11.
  2. ^ a b "ABC-Paramount Is Now abc Records". Billboard. June 18, 1966. p. 3.
  3. ^ a b Kahn, Ashley (2006). The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records. London: Granta. pp. 15–16. ISBN 1-86207-646-4.
  4. ^ Squire, Jason E. (August 5, 2016). The Movie Business Book. CRC Press. ISBN 9781317221593.
  5. ^ a b "ABC: Brief History". Billboard. September 12, 1970. pp. abc2–abc3. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
  6. ^ a b "Entity Information: ABC Records, INC". Corporation & Business Entity Database. New York State Division of Corporations. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "ABC-Paramount Through the Years" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 77, no. 38. September 18, 1965. p. 32. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  8. ^ "The First Decade" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 77, no. 38. September 18, 1965. p. 32. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  9. ^ "Am-Par Did It the Hard Way By Developing Its Own Stars". Billboard. June 20, 1960. p. 12.
  10. ^ Montagne, Renee (June 6, 2006). "Impulse Records: 'The House That Trane Built'". NPR.org. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
  11. ^ "ABC-Paramount will Reactivate Apt Label". Billboard. Vol. 77, no. 2. January 9, 1965. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  12. ^ "ABC-Paramount Is Now abc Records". Billboard. June 18, 1966. p. 3. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
  13. ^ "Adler made rock history without ever picking up an instrument". Goldmine Magazine. June 20, 2013. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
  14. ^ "New Home, Face, Philosophy - ABC/Dunhill on 15th Anniversary". Billboard. September 12, 1970. pp. abc4–abc8. Retrieved September 10, 2011 – via Books.google.com.
  15. ^ Tiegel, Eliot (September 12, 1970). "New Marketing Approaches Key ABC/Duill 55-LP Meet". Billboard. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
  16. ^ "ABC Records 73 Sales, Earnings Up from 1972". Billboard. Vol. 86, no. 19. May 11, 1974. pp. 8, 80. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
  17. ^ "Jay Lasker, Recording Executive, 65, Dies". The New York Times. June 13, 1989. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
  18. ^ "ABC Records 2B Losses". Billboard. December 10, 1977. p. 4. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
  19. ^ "ABC Nove Epitomizes Expansions". Billboard. 10 August 1974. p. 70. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
  20. ^ "ABC, Anchor Deal in U.K." Billboard. September 21, 1974. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
  21. ^ Kirsch, Bob (August 10, 1974). "Famous Labels Bought By ABC". Billboard. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
  22. ^ a b "ABC Buy Boosting Power". Billboard. February 10, 1979. pp. 1, 14. Retrieved January 19, 2016 – via Books.google.com.
  23. ^ "ABC-Paramount Records Story". Bsnpubs.com. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
  24. ^ "Inside Track". Billboard. June 18, 1977. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
  25. ^ Bronson, Fred (2003). Billboard's hottest hot 100 hits. Billboard. p. 194. ISBN 9780823077380. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
  26. ^ "ABC-Paramount Records Story". Bsnpubs.com. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
  27. ^ "Stephen Diener, Former ABC Records President, Dies at 80". Variety. May 3, 2019.
  28. ^ "Command, a Premium Price Label, to Deb". Billboard. August 10, 1959. p. 2. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
  29. ^ "Am-Par Acquires Grand Award Label". Billboard. October 5, 1959. p. 3. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
  30. ^ "Industry - Record Labels - W&G Records". Milesago. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
  31. ^ "45 Discography for Ampar/ABC Paramount Records - OZ". Globaldogproductions.info. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
  32. ^ "Ranwood to Release 21 Welk Top Sellers". Billboard. April 20, 1968. Retrieved September 9, 2011.

External links

  • The ABC-Paramount Records story

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For the unrelated record label of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation see ABC Music ABC Records was an American record label founded in New York City in 1955 It originated as the main popular music label operated by the Am Par Record Corporation Am Par also created the Impulse jazz label in 1960 It acquired many labels before ABC was sold to MCA Records in 1979 ABC produced music in a variety of genres pop rock jazz country rhythm and blues soundtrack gospel and polka In addition to producing records ABC licensed masters from independent record producers and purchased regionally released records for national distribution ABC RecordsParent companyAmerican Broadcasting CompanyFounded1955 68 years ago 1955 Defunct1989 34 years ago 1989 StatusSold to MCA Records DefunctDistributor s Self distributed US EMI international Anchor Records UK Sparton Records Canada Polydor Records Canada GRT Canada GenreVariousCountry of originUnited StatesLocationNew York CityThe label was initially called Am Par Records 1955 but quickly changed to ABC Paramount Records 1955 1966 and then renamed ABC Records in 1966 1 2 Contents 1 History 1 1 Background 1 2 ABC Paramount Records 1 3 ABC Records 2 Acquisitions 3 ABC Paramount ABC Records label variations 4 Artists associated with ABC Records and its labels 5 Labels associated with ABC Records 6 Management of ABC Records catalog today 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksHistory EditBackground Edit In the 1940s and early 1950s the Federal Communications Commission took action against the Anti competitive practices of movie studios and broadcasting companies forcing the Radio Corporation of America RCA to sell the Blue Network the sister network of NBC Red Network in 1943 The Blue Network was purchased by Edward J Noble who changed the company s name to the American Broadcasting Company ABC in 1946 In 1953 ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres the divested former exhibition cinema division of Paramount Pictures with the newly merged corporation American Broadcasting Paramount Theatres AB PT chaired by former Paramount Theaters executive Leonard Goldenson and headquartered at 1501 Broadway in New York City above the Paramount Theater in Times Square 3 4 ABC Paramount Records Edit ABC Paramount 78rpm record and original sleeve American Broadcasting Paramount Theatres formed a records division incorporating the Am Par Record Corporation on June 14 1955 with Samuel H Clark as its first president 5 6 By August 1955 the unit was organized with AMPCO ASCAP and PAMCO BMI as subsidiary publishing units 7 Though the record label was established as Am Par no records were released until after the division s name was changed to ABC Paramount in September 1955 1 Eydie Gorme was the company s first signed artist The company recorded its first single record Sincerely Yours and Come Home both by Gorme Alec Templeton s Smart Alec was the company s first LP recorded also in September 1955 7 One of Gorme s singles was its first release in January 1956 7 8 Chain Gang by Bobby Scott in February 1956 was the company s first national hit George Hamilton IV s A Rose and a Baby Ruth single was Am Paramount s first million selling single in October 1956 7 In 1957 the company had two million selling single in June with Diana by Paul Anka and in October with At the Hop by Danny amp the Juniors Am Paramount Records in May 1958 debut the Apt subsidiary label with its first million selling single Little Star by the Elegants released the same month 7 Chancellor Records had Am Par Record Corporation handle its distribution starting in 1957 and started a trend Chancellor had its first million selling single in October 1958 with Lloyd Price s Stagger Lee 9 7 Am Par purchased Grand Award Records including the newly formed Command Records label in 1959 7 The company started a second label for jazz Impulse Records in November 1960 7 10 Impulse released its first four records in January 1961 7 The company had artists that earned three Grammy Awards in 1960 7 While in January 1961 the company purchased Westminster Records a classical label Thus Am Par Record had a label for each music genre 7 Am Par Record Corporation was renamed to ABC Paramount Records Inc on December 7 1961 6 The company opened a Los Angeles office in January 1962 Ray Charles formed Tangerine Records in March 1962 and arranged for ABC Paramount to distribute Tangerine s records The company formed Jet Record Distributors based in Long Island City N Y as its local distributor Also in 1962 the company had acquired Music Guild label and library for Westminster Records 7 In 1965 Clark was promoted to vice president in charge of AB PT s non broadcast operations National sales manager Larry Newton was named ABC Paramount president 5 On January 4 1965 vice president in charge of sales Larry Newton was promoted to president of ABC Paramount Records The previous president Sam Clark was promoted to director of theater operations for American Broadcasting Paramount Theatres Newton s first action as president was to restart Apt Records as a teen oriented West Coast base label under Irwin Garr 11 ABC Records Edit In June 1966 the label was renamed ABC Records 2 and the company acquired New Deal Record Service Corp a rack jobbing and record distribution company along with its affiliates 12 In 1967 Dunhill Records was purchased from Lou Adler 13 In 1970 ABC and Dunhill moved its headquarters to Los Angeles Newton was promoted to vice president in charge of ABC Pictures Dunhill co owner Jay Lasker was named president and referred to the combined operations as ABC Dunhill At that time ABC had another five labels Westminster Command Probe Impulse and Bluesway 14 At the August 29 1970 Directors Guild meeting ABC Dunhill launched a number of marketing initiatives The company planned to have writers create a broader music for the catalog market Imprints Probe and Apt were relaunched Probe as an label which held the international rights to ABC s albums and Apt as a label which released budget cassettes and 8 track tapes Jazz dropped from Impulse s cover for a new slogan University Series of Fine Recording and two new series were launched Audio Treasury and Westminster Gold for classic and youth fare respectively 15 By May 1972 ABC formed the ABC Leisure Group which included ABC Records Anchor Records and ABC Records and Tape Sales plus a new retail record store division 16 Lasker left ABC to join Ariola America Records in 1975 17 He was succeeded by Jerry Rubinstein who served as company head until 1977 18 In November 1972 ABC bought country music company Cartwheel Records 19 In 1974 ABC switched British distribution from EMI to the EMI distributed Anchor Records allowing ABC recordings to be issued on the ABC label in the UK and Anchor records to be distributed by ABC on the Anchor label in the US 20 Also in 1974 ABC acquired Famous Music Records Group including Nashville based Dot Records 21 then began releasing ABC country music under the ABC Dot label until January 1979 22 As a cost cutting measure ABC Records discarded many master tapes in the 1970s to save storage space When these recordings were reissued on compact disc in the 1980s CD versions were often taken from master copies which had less than optimal sound quality 23 The company s last president Steve Diener was named to that job in 1977 after serving as head of ABC Records international division 24 Because of financial problems except for its Nashville office ABC Records was sold on January 31 1979 to MCA Records with ABC Records being its third label likely under a different name 22 Instead MCA discontinued ABC Records on March 5 1979 and 25 albums in the ABC catalog still selling well were reissued on MCA 26 Diener died in April 2019 aged 80 27 Acquisitions EditABC Records sub labeled Apt to release singles In the early 1960s it bought Westminster a classical music label For jazz it created Impulse Led by Creed Taylor and Bob Thiele Impulse developed a reputation for innovative releases including albums by John Coltrane from 1961 until his death in 1967 ABC created Bluesway for blues music Tangerine was formed by Ray Charles to produce his albums and those he produced ABC Records bought Dunhill in the summer of 1967 forming ABC Dunhill Records It also bought Don Robey s record labels including Duke Peacock Back Beat and Song Bird on May 23 1973 In 1974 ABC bought the Famous Music record labels from Gulf and Western the parent company of Paramount This acquisition gave ABC Dot Blue Thumb and a distribution deal with Sire which released the first album from the Ramones ABC purchased all labels from Enoch Light in October 1959 It acquired Audition Command 28 Colortone and Waldorf Music Hall 29 In 1979 ABC was acquired by MCA for 30 million 3 It operated briefly as a separate division MCA was absorbed by the Universal Music Group which currently distributes recordings for ABC s current sister company Disney Music Group worldwide except for Russia This is not the same ABC Records that operates in Australia which is run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation although the Ampar label was distributed in Australia in the 1950s and 1960s first by W amp G Records 1955 60 and then by Festival 30 31 Nor is it the sub label of Voiceprint ABC Paramount ABC Records label variations Edit1955 1961 Black label ABC PARAMOUNT around top perimeter of label in yellow red and blue repeating in that sequence Venus medium font with silver print for singles and the company s name in all white letters in Venus medium and silver print for albums and logo consisting of color spectrum Mobius strip and white jagged line representing a sound wave Bottom perimeter of label reads A PRODUCT OF AM PAR RECORD CORP 1961 1966 Same label as above but disclaimer at bottom of label now reads A PRODUCT OF ABC PARAMOUNT RECORDS INC 1966 1967 Label name now shortened to ABC Records Black label with large white circle at top with abc in black letters and the Mobius strip and sound wave logo under the letters This variant was used only for singles 1967 1974 Black label with small white abc circle logo in color spectrum box at top In conjunction with this label a brief interim label was used from 1973 to 1974 consisting of three children s blocks spelling out ABC and one block with the abc logo in a white triangle at the top 1974 1978 Yellow orange red and purple sunburst label with abc Records black abc circle logo between two black lines at top Note The other ABC labels would also adopt this label such as Dunhill Dot Blue Thumb with its logo next to the abc logo and Backbeat and Impulse with a green background rather than a yellow background but the circles were the same 1978 1979 Same multi colored label as above but with 1 8 note featuring abc inside the bottom of the note Late pressings show Mfg amp Dist by MCA Distributing Corp at the bottom perimeter just before the ABC label was discontinued and its artists transferred to MCA Artists associated with ABC Records and its labels EditAmazing Rhythm Aces Paul Anka Louis Armstrong The Atlantics Kevin Ayers Florence Ballard Count Basie Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers US Canada Joe Bennett and The Sparkletones Stephen Bishop Art Blakey Blood Sweat amp Tears Bobby Bland The Brass Ring Tom Bresh Charles Brown Roy Brown Jimmy Buffett Solomon Burke Shirley Collie Carl Carlton Betty Carter Johnny Carver musician Ray Charles Kvitka Cisyk Roy Clark Ornette Coleman John Coltrane John Conlee Billy Crash Craddock Jim Croce Crosby and Nash Crowfoot The Crusaders Danny amp the Juniors Dalton and Dubarri James Darren Billy Davis Jr The Del Vikings The Dells Fats Domino Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods The Dramatics The Dubs Duke and the Drivers The Elegants Lu Elliott Mario Escudero Donna Fargo Narvel Felts Freddy Fender Ferrante amp Teicher Mickie Finn s The Floaters Frank Fontaine Four Tops Ferrante amp Teicher The 5th Dimension Lefty Frizzell Gabriel band Genesis US Canada Eydie Gorme The Grass Roots George Hamilton IV Bobby Hammack Christian Harmonizers Richard Harris US Canada Coleman Hawkins Isaac Hayes Roy Head Hello People Levon Helm Lawrence Hilton Jacobs Eddie Holman John Lee Hooker Freddie Hubbard James Gang The Impressions Jackie and Roy Johnny Kidd and the Pirates US Canada B B King Kracker Frankie Laine Julius La Rosa Denise LaSalle Yusef Lateef Steve Lawrence J B Loyd Eddie Lund Barbara Mandrell The Mamas and the Papas Barry Mann Charles Mann Shelly Manne Guy Marks The Marvelows Marilyn McCoo Brownie McGhee Barry McGuire Mighty Clouds of Joy Charles Mingus The O Kaysions The Oak Ridge Boys Tommy Overstreet Pavlov s Dog Paxton Brothers Poco The Pointer Sisters The Poni Tails Lloyd Price Rare Bird Jimmy Reed Emitt Rhodes Rhythm Heritage Cliff Richard US Canada Sue Richards Howard Roberts Impulse Tommy Roe Sonny Rollins Jeris Ross Royal Teens Rufus featuring Chaka Khan Jimmy Rushing John Wesley Ryles Sabicas Soupy Sales The Sapphires Bobby Scott Jack Scott Shirley Scott The Shadows US Canada Archie Shepp Beverly Sills Smith featuring Gayle McCormick Soft Machine Probe ABC Otis Spann Arnold Stang Dusty Springfield US Canada Joe Stampley Red Steagall Silk Steely Dan Diane Steinberg Steppenwolf Stepson Sonny Terry B J Thomas Three Dog Night Buck Trent Joe Turner US Radio Band Eddie Vinson Bobby Vinton T Bone Walker Joe Walsh Wha Koo Josh White Chico Williams Lenny Williams Jimmy Witherspoon Bobby Wright O V Wright The ZiontonesLabels associated with ABC Records Edit20th Century Fox Records Addison Records Anchor Records Apt Records Back Beat Records Bigtop Records Blue Thumb Records Bluesway Records Boom Records Buluu Dunhill Records Chancellor Records Cimarron Records Colonial Records Command Records Dot Records Duke Records Dunhill Records Equinox Records Fargo Records Grand Award Records GTO Records Hickory Records Hot Buttered Soul Records Hunt Records Impulse Records Jerden Records LHI Records Montel Records Myrrh Records Oliver Records Passport Records Peacock Records Probe Records Senate Records Shelter Records Sire Records Song Bird Records Tangerine Records Westminster Records Wren RecordsManagement of ABC Records catalog today EditThe catalogs of ABC Records and its sub labels are now controlled by Universal Music Group UMG also distributes Disney Music Group which is owned by ABC s current parent The Walt Disney Company with the following exceptions The Paul Anka ABC Paramount catalog is controlled by Anka himself Distribution is done by Universal Music Enterprises and its Canadian counterpart UMusic The Jim Croce catalog is controlled by the Croce estate and R2M Music is distributed by BMG Rights Management The Ray Charles catalog is controlled by the Charles estate and is currently licensed to Concord Records Concord s recordings are distributed by UMG The Amazing Rhythm Aces catalog and the recordings that former 5th Dimension members Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr made for ABC are controlled by Sony Music Lawrence Welk acquired his Dot recordings prior to ABC acquiring the label which were reissued on his Ranwood Records label 32 Like Concord Ranwood is also distributed by UMG The following labels manage different genres Pop rock R amp B Geffen Jazz Impulse Impulse Verve Country Universal Music Group Nashville Classical Deutsche Grammophon Musical theater Decca BroadwayThese labels also produce releases from labels absorbed into ABC For example MCA Nashville s catalog includes country releases on Dot Records Deutsche Grammophon s catalog includes the Westminster Records catalog as well as soundtracks released by Dot and Paramount Records See also EditAmerican Broadcasting Company List of record labelsReferences Edit a b Am Par Alters Label Name to ABC Param t Billboard September 24 1955 p 11 a b ABC Paramount Is Now abc Records Billboard June 18 1966 p 3 a b Kahn Ashley 2006 The House That Trane Built The Story of 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