Paramount Records
Paramount Records was a record label started in 1969 by Paramount Pictures (then a unit of Gulf+Western) after acquiring the rights to the name from George H. A previous Paramount Records, active between 1917 and 1932, had been unconnected to Paramount Pictures. The new Paramount label reissued pop releases by sister label Dot Records, which had recently become a country label and, in the process, had its entire pop back catalog deleted completely. It also released new albums from other pop musicians and soundtracks of Paramount films such as Paint Your Wagon, among others.
Paramount Records
- Name
- Paramount Records
- Founded
- 1969
- Headquarters
- United States
- Dissolved
- 1974
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Paramount Records was a record label started in 1969 by Paramount Pictures (then a unit of Gulf+Western) after acquiring the rights to the name from George H. A previous Paramount Records, active between 1917 and 1932, had been unconnected to Paramount Pictures. The new Paramount label reissued pop releases by sister label Dot Records, which had recently become a country label and, in the process, had its entire pop back catalog deleted completely. It also released new albums from other pop musicians and soundtracks of Paramount films such as Paint Your Wagon, among others.
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Cast members of the Paramount Television series The Brady Bunch were signed, and the label issued several tie-in albums and singles. After Gulf+Western sold its record label holdings to ABC (which happened to have aired the Brady Bunch TV series) in 1974, the Paramount label was discontinued in favor of ABC Records, which itself was sold to MCA Records in 1979. MCA itself had previously purchased Paramount's pre-1950 sound film library in 1958, currently managed by Universal Television subsidiary EMKA, Ltd. On a side note, MCA continued to release soundtracks to some later Paramount films into the 1990s. Sliding Doors (1998) was the last Paramount release to have its soundtrack issued by MCA. In 2015, Paramount Pictures revived the label as Paramount Music - a record label specializing in soundtracks from Paramount movies, with distribution by TuneCore.
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• Name — Paramount Records • Parent — Famous Music (1969–1974) • Founder — Paramount Pictures • Status — Defunct, sold to ABC Records in 1974, catalog now owned by Universal Music Group • Distributor — Self-distributed • Genre — Pop music Movie soundtracks • Country — United States
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• Artist — Album — Details • Kay Starr and Count Basie — How About This — * Released: 1969 • Lalo Schifrin — Mannix (Themes from the Original Score of the Paramount Television Show) — * Released: 1969 • Lalo Schifrin — More Mission: Impossible — * Released: 1969 • Bola Sete — Workin' on a Groovy Thing — * Released: 1970 • The Brady Bunch — Merry Christmas from the Brady Bunch — * Released: November 2, 1970 • Elton John — "Friends" Original Soundtrack Recording — * Released: March 5, 1971 • Karen Dalton — In My Own Time — * Released: May, 1971 • Ralph McTell — You Well-Meaning Brought Me Here — * Released: October, 1971 • Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen — Lost in the Ozone — * Released: November, 1971 • Nino Rota — The Godfather — * Released: November, 1971 • The Brady Bunch — Meet the Brady Bunch — * Released: April 17, 1972 • Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen — Hot Licks, Cold Steel & Truckers Favorites — * Released: May 1972 • The Brady Bunch — The Kids from the Brady Bunch — * Released: December 4, 1972 • Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen — Country Casanova — * Released: May, 1973 • The Brady Bunch — The Brady Bunch Phonographic Album — * Released: June 18, 1973 • Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen — Live from Deep in the Heart of Texas — * Released: March 1974
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