Coronet Records is the name of at least three different record companies. One was based in
San Francisco
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in the 1940s and was responsible for the first recordings of
Dave Brubeck. Brubeck's Coronet Records disbanded when it couldn't pay its bills and its recordings were taken over by what became
Fantasy Records
Fantasy Records is an American independent record label company founded by brothers Max and Sol Stanley Weiss in 1949. The early years of the company were dedicated to issuing recordings by jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, who was also one of its invest ...
. The second, a division of Premier Albums, issued a wide range of inexpensive
LP records in the 1950s and 1960s in the United States.
The third was a
record label
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in
Australia, based in
Sydney. It operated from the early 1950s until around 1962 and was recognizable by its octagonal label.
Until early 1960 Coronet was the principal house label of the (
ARC), releasing material licensed from international labels, primarily
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* CBS Records International, label for Columbia Records recordings released outside North America from 1962 to 1990
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in the U.S., as well as material recorded by Australian artists.
In 1960 ARC was taken over by CBS Records
[ARC & CBS & Sony Music Australia's history outline in Sony Music Commemorative CD souvenir of the opening of their Huntingwood CD plant in 1993 - https://www.scribd.com/doc/104164049/Sony-Music-1993-Comemorative-CD-Huntingwood-Plant] (although the company continued to trade as ARC until the late 1970s) and the Coronet label was phased out in favour of the new
CBS Australia label, which used the CBS/Columbia "walking eye" logo.
References
External links
Coronet Records discography - Global Dog Productions
See also
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List of record labels
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Defunct record labels of Australia
Record labels disestablished in 1960
Columbia Records
Jazz record labels
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