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MK 5000 - 1968 to MU 1100 - 1969 MK 5020 - 1969 |
to BAG 7 - 1969 Soul Bag series |
to MK 5078 - 1969 |
to MU 1140 - 1971 MK 5058 - 1970 |
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Music Corporation of America was founded in 1924 by Jules Stern, as a booking
agency.
MCA entered the recorded music business in 1962 with the purchase of US Decca Records, including US Coral Records and US Brunswick Records. As American Decca owned Universal Pictures, MCA assumed full ownership of Universal and made it into the top film studio in town. In 1966, MCA formed Uni Records, and in 1967 they purchased US Kapp Records. In 1971, MCA consolidated its labels into MCA Records. In Britain, the MCA label came on the scene in 1967. After an initial eighteen months of independence, Decca started handling its manufacturing and distribution. This arrangement lasted until the start of 1974, when EMI took over. In the last year of the decade the company moved to CBS. Several different numbering systems existed: MU-1000 and MUS-1000 in the independent and Decca years, with MK-5000 and MKS-5000 added from 1969-72. MK denoted material of British origin, as opposed to American recordings, while S in both cases indicated that the record was stereophonic. |
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