Philips Records
Parent company	Universal Music Group
Founded	1950
Distributing label	Decca Music Group
Genre	(historic) Various (current) Classical music
Country of origin	UK
Official website	http://www.decca.com

Philips Records is a record label that was founded by Dutch electronics giant Philips. It was started as Philips Phonographische Industries (PPI) in 1950. During much of the 1950s, it served to distribute recordings made by the US Columbia Records and Columbia Masterworks Records labels in the United Kingdom. In the late 1950s Philips created a subsidiary label, Fontana Records. After Columbia formed its own international operations in 1961 adopting the name of its then parent CBS, Philips acquired Mercury Records. In 1962 Philips Records and Deutsche Grammophon were linked into the Phonogram Records joint venture. Image File history File links Philips_logo. ... Universal Music Group (UMG) is the largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry. ... It has been suggested that Decca Music Group be merged into this article or section. ... This article is about Western art music from 1000 AD to the present. ... In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... Philips HQ in Amsterdam Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Philips Electronics N.V.), usually known as Philips, (Euronext: PHIA, NYSE: PHG) is one of the largest electronics companies in the world, founded and headquartered in the Netherlands. ... See also: 1949 in music, other events of 1950, 1951 in music, 1950s in music and the list of years in music // Events Malcolm Sargent becomes chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. ... Columbia Records is the oldest brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888, and was the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. ... Columbia Masterworks Records is a subsidiary of Columbia Records. ... Fontana Records was a record label active in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1960s, as a subsiduary of the Dutch Phillips company. ... See also: 1960 in music, other events of 1961, 1962 in music, 1960s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 15 - Motown Records signs The Supremes January 20 - Francis Poulencs Gloria is premiered in Boston February 12 - The Miracles Shop Around becomes Motowns first... Mercury Records is a record label currently headquartered in the UK, and is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Deutsche Grammophon is a German classical record label. ... Phonogram Records was started in 1962 as a joint venture between Philips Records and Deutsche Grammophon. ...

In the eighties Philips Classics Records was formed to distribute its classics artists, although classical recordings have also been issued on the regular Philips label. Philips Classics Records was started in the eighties as the new classics label for Philips Records. ...

In 1983, Philips became the first record label to issue compact discs, using digital recordings that went as far back as 1978. (The first digital recordings, however, were actually remastered versions of vintage recordings by the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso, using the Soundstream process developed in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1975-76. RCA Victor released vinyl versions of these reprocessed, historic recordings. Philips was among the record labels to use the Soundstream process for modern digital recordings.) For the song Caruso by Lucio Dalla, see Caruso (song). ... Soundstream Inc. ... For ships of the United States Navy of the same name, see USS Salt Lake City. ... 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. ...

Philips Records has been part of Universal Music since 1998. In 1999, Philips Classics was absorbed into the Decca Music Group. Philips Records' pop music catalogue is managed by Mercury Records. Universal Music Group (UMG) is the largest major label in the record industry, with a 23% market share. ... It has been suggested that Decca Music Group be merged into this article or section. ... This article is about the genre of popular music. ...

Recently, many of the Philips classical recordings have been reissued on the Eloquence label.

Selected Philips Records artists - with origin

• Blue Cheer - San Francisco, California, United States
• Teresa Brewer - Toledo, Ohio, United States
• Changin' Times
• David Whitfield - Hull recorded his first album in years on Philips in 1975 called Hey There formally on Decca
• Val Doonican - Ireland (formerly on Decca till 1967, then on Pye)
• The Four Pennies - various, England
• The Four Seasons (also as The Wonder Who?) - Newark, New Jersey, United States
• Johnny Hallyday - Paris, France
• Bobby Hebb - Nashville, Tennessee, United States
• The Kaye Sisters - various, England
• Frankie Laine
• Los Paraguayos - Paraguay
• Luv' - Netherlands
• Susan Maughan - Consett, County Durham
• Paul Mauriat - Marseille, France
• Roger Miller - born Fort Worth, Texas; based Nashville, Tennessee, United States. (1968 to Mercury)
• Guy Mitchell
• Mouth & MacNeal - Netherlands
• Peters and Lee
• Johnnie Ray
• Jim and Jean - Greenwich Village, New York City, United States (1965)
• Richard and the Young Lions - Newark, New Jersey, United States
• Serendipity Singers - Boulder, Colorado, United States
• Nina Simone - Tryon, North Carolina, United States
• Dusty Springfield - West Hampstead, London
• The Springfields - London
• Frankie Vaughan - Liverpool, England. (Formerly on HMV till 1956, and on Columbia from 1967. The moved to Pye in 1973 till 1978 when he recorded for a variety of labels including Ronco, Big V Records.)
• The Walker Brothers - Los Angeles, California, United States; based in London from Feb. 1965
• John Walker - New York, United States
• Scott Walker - Hamilton, Ohio, United States
• Marty Wilde - Greenwich, South London
• Flame Dream
• Cluster - Berlin, Germany
• KNT´Rock Club - Governador Valadares, Brazil
• 10cc - Stockport, England

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See also

• List of record labels
• Universal Music Classics Group

This is a list of record labels. ... Universal Music Classics Group is Universal Music Groups classical music holdings. ...

External links

• A discography of American Philips pop albums in the 1960s and early 1970s

• Yahoo! Group dedicated to Philips Records