In namespace:

AllFilmGamesGeneralMusicSandbox

In language:

EnglishFrançaisDeutschItalianoРусскийEspañolpolskiPortuguêssuomiJapaneseTürkçeNederlands

Profile

Headquarters: Universal City, CA
Founding: 1973 (Following Decca USA Acquisition)
Closing: 1996 (Renamed Universal Music Group)

Music Corporation of America was founded in 1924 by Jules Stein as a Chicago talent agency. In 1949, MCA began producing TV shows under its Revue Productions and by the late 1950s, MCA acquired Universal Studios and gone public as MCA Inc. In 1962, MCA Inc. acquired Decca Records, which was folded into MCA Records in 1973. During the next few decades, MCA Inc. acquired an assortment of record labels to form The MCA Entertainment Music Group. In 1995, after Seagram acquired a controlling interest in MCA, MCA Inc. was renamed Universal Studios and the MCA Entertainment Music Group was renamed Universal Music Group in 1996.

Labels

• ABC Records Group (1979)

• ABC Records (Imprint Discontinued in 1979)
• Impulse (Dual Imprint Through 1995)

• Chess 1984-96)


• Geffen (1990-96)


• GRP Records (1990-96)


• Hip-O (1996)


• Interscope (1995-96)

• Aftermath
• Nothing Records

• MCA Records (1973-96)


• Motown (1988-91) (Sold to Polygram)


• Rising Tide Records (1995-96)


• Universal Records (1996)