Wing Records was a
record label subsidiary
A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company. Two or more subsidiaries that either belong to the same parent company or having a s ...
of
Mercury Records founded in 1955, that found its greatest success during the late 1950s.
In 1986, the label was revived by Mercury's parent company,
PolyGram
PolyGram N.V. was a multinational entertainment company and major music record label formerly based in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1962 as the Grammophon-Philips Group by Dutch corporation Philips and German corporation Siemens, to be a ...
and the label had brief success with
R&B singers
Vanessa Williams, Lace,
Tony! Toni! Toné!, Channel 2, and
Brian McKnight. McKnight was signed to Wing in 1989, but the album he recorded (his 1992 self-titled debut) was not released on the label. Instead, it was issued on Mercury.
Jerry Murad's Harmonicats were on Wing soon after quitting
Vitacoustic Records in 1948.
In 1996, Wing closed and its remaining artists (Vanessa Williams & Tony! Toni! Toné!) were moved to Mercury.
See also
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List of record labels
References
External links
Wing Recordson the Internet Archive'
Great 78 Project
Defunct record labels of the United States
Record labels established in 1955
Record labels established in 1986
Record labels disestablished in 1996
Re-established companies
1955 establishments in the United States
1996 disestablishments in the United States
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