Stateside Records, styled as $tateside Records, is a British

record label A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the produ ...

, owned by

Warner Music Group Warner Music Group Corp. ( d.b.a. Warner Music Group, commonly abbreviated as WMG) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City. It is one of the " big three" recording companies and t ...

and operates through its

Parlophone Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a German–British record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon. The British branch of the label was founded on 8 August 192 ...

and

Warner Records Warner Records Inc. (formerly Warner Bros. Records Inc.) is an American record label. A subsidiary of the Warner Music Group, it is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. It was founded on March 19, 1958, as the recorded music division of the ...

imprints. Upon creation, it initially released licensed American recordings and is now a reissue label.

History

It was formed in 1962 by

EMI EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records Ltd. or simply EMI) was a British Transnational corporation, transnational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate founded in March 1 ...

as a replacement for the

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label (originally the

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's label), which had folded. EMI hired former Top Rank label head Fred Oxon to run it and compete with

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's London "American Recordings", and Pye's " Pye International" labels. While Top Rank's British acts (such as

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) were assigned to EMI's Columbia and

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labels, Stateside continued to issue records from its American suppliers, including Amy,

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, Scepter,

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and A&M, and acquired Tamla-

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-Gordy from Oriole Records. Its first hit was " Palisades Park" by Freddy Cannon, which was licensed from

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. It was through EMI's relationship with Vee-Jay and Swan that pre-1964 recordings by

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were released by those labels in the U.S. when EMI's American subsidiary

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turned them down. Stateside's black label design, with a large '45' for singles and a coloured logo for albums, was the model for the new-look Columbia,

and HMV labels which were introduced the following year. In the late 1960s, when EMI set up long term licence contracts with US labels like

and Dot, it no longer needed Stateside, and the label was retired quietly in 1973, along with EMI's Columbia, HMV-POP, Regal Zonophone and Parlophone labels, in favour of the new EMI and

EMI America EMI America Records was started in 1978 by EMI as a second US label next to Capitol Records. It absorbed Liberty Records in 1984. In the late 1980s, EMI America was consolidated with Manhattan Records to form EMI Manhattan Records, which lat ...

labels. Stateside has retrospectively attracted interest from northern soul fans, mainly for its role in releasing American Motown recordings in the UK market. Stateside issued 45 of them, including the number 1 "

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" in 1964, prior to the establishment of the UK Tamla Motown label. In the 1980s, the Stateside label was revived as a catalogue reissue label, specialising in American recordings from Capitol Records and other labels EMI acquired over the years. The trademark is now owned by Parlophone Records Limited, as a consequence of the EU-mandated divestiture of some EMI Records assets to

. That forced the deletion of titles to which Capitol Records, now owned by

Universal Music Group Universal Music Group N.V. (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as just Universal Music) is a Dutch– American multinational music corporation under Dutch law. UMG's corporate headquarters are located in Hilversum, Netherlands and its ...

, had the rights. In the summer of 2017, Warner Music relaunched the Stateside label for classic jazz, soul and R&B releases.

References

External links

Official site

UK Intellectual Property Office trademark registration
{{Authority control British record labels Record labels established in 1962 Re-established companies Reissue record labels

History

See also

References

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