EMI America Records was started in 1978 by EMI as a second US label next to Capitol Records. EMI America was closed in the late eighties to make way for EMI Manhattan Records. The EMI Group is a major record label, based in the United Kingdom and with operations in over 25 other countries. ... Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, now part of the EMI Music Group. ... EMI Manhattan Records is a subsidiary of EMI Records. ...
It was acquired by EMI in 1955 and is now part of the EMI Group PLC.
The Capitol Records company was founded by the songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942, with the financial help of movie producer Buddy DeSylva and the business acumen of Glenn Wallichs, (1910-1971) (owner of Music City, at the time the biggest record store in Los Angeles, California).
EMI's classical Angel Records label was merged into Capitol in 1957.
Although German-made Odeon records were occasionally exported to the United States on special order, there does not seem to have been any serious attempt to market the label here before the early 1920s.
Although the masters were recorded in the Okeh studio, they were numbered in a separate O-8000 series that seems to have been reserved for Odeon's exclusive use.
Recorded in Europe and manufactured by Columbia as superb laminated pressings, the Odeons of the late 1920s rank among the finest products of their time.
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