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The Columbia Graphophone Company was one of the earliest gramophone companies in the United Kingdom. Edison cylinder phonograph from about 1899 The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s. ...

The history of the Columbia record label outside the UK is dealt with in more detail in Columbia Records. A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... Columbia Records is the oldest continually used brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888. ...

Columbia in the U.K.

In 1922 Columbia Phonograph, as it was then known, sold its UK subsidiary Columbia Graphophone, but in 1925 Columbia Graphophone bought its former parent for $2.5 million. In 1926 Odeon Records and Parlophone Records were acquired. On April 21, 1931: The Gramophone Company and the Columbia Graphophone Company merged and formed a new company: Electric and Musical Industries (EMI). 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Odeon Records was a record label founded by Max Strauss and Heinrich Zunz in Berlin, Germany. ... Parlophone is a record label which was founded in Germany prior to World War I by the Carl Lindstrom Company. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Gramophone Company, based in the United Kingdom, was one of the early recording companies. ... The EMI Group is a major record label, based in Hammersmith, London, in the United Kingdom and with operations in over 25 other countries. ...

EMI continued to operate the Columbia record label in the UK (and everywhere but the U.S., Canada and Japan) until the 1960's. It sold its remaining interest in the Columbia name in 1990 to Sony Music Entertainment (now Sony BMG Music Entertainment), who already owned Columbia Records in the U.S. and Canada. Sony BMG Music Entertainment is the result of a 50/50 joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment (part of Sony) and BMG Entertainment (part of Bertelsmann AG) completed in August 2004. ...

Columbia Graphophone Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (198 words)
	The Columbia Graphophone Company was one of the earliest gramophone companies in the United Kingdom.
	In 1922 Columbia Phonograph, as it was then known, sold its UK subsidiary Columbia Graphophone, but in 1925 Columbia Graphophone bought its former parent for $2.5 million.
	Columbia outside the U.K. The history of the Columbia record label outside the UK is dealt with in more detail in Columbia Records.

Columbia Records (320 words)
	Columbia was originally the local company distributing and selling Edison phonographs and phonograph cylinders in Washington, D.C. Maryland and Delaware.
	Columbia severed its ties to Edison and the North American Phonograph Company[?] in 1893, and thereafter sold only records and phonographs of their own manufacture.
	In July of 1912 Columbia decided to concentrate exclusively on disc records, and stopped recording new cylinder records and manufacturing cylinder phonographs, although they continued pressing and selling cylinder records from their back catalogue for a year or two more.

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