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Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon.The British branch of the label was founded on 8 August 1923 as the Parlophone Company Limited (the Parlophone Co. Ltd.), which developed a reputation in the 1920s as a jazz record label.
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The original Parlophone record label was a black label with gold print, as a result this created a legendary Beatles collectible, the "Gold Label", "Please Please Me" which can be found with any of the following three different label variations. The first label credits the Beatles original songs to "Dick James Music" (which is pictured here).
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In 1950, George Martin joined Parlophone, an appointment which proved to be the defining moment in the label’s history. By the early/mid 50s they were releasing increasingly more spoken word and novelty recordings, and were also building up a roster of new young Jazz musicians and former dance band ‘Pop’ singers But hit records were few ...
List of Parlophone artists. This list of Parlophone artists records the more notable musicians that are or have been signed by the company. As of 2023, the roster includes Lily Allen, Coldplay, Victoria Canal, David Guetta, Gorillaz, The Snuts, Conor Maynard, Aya Nakamura, Soprano and PinkPantheress. Its contemporary label, His Master's Voice ...
Parlophone is an anglicization of the German Parlophon label, registered as a trademark in 1902 by Max Straus and Heinrich Zuntz of Salon Kinematograph Co. GmbH, later merged into Carl Lindström A.-G.. The first Parlophon records are pressed in 1910. By 1923, Parlophone proper appears in London administered by English Lindström branch known ...
Parlophone Records Limited is a German–British record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon. The British branch of the label was founded on 8 August 1923 as the Parlophone Company Limited , which developed a reputation in the 1920s as a jazz record label. On 5 October 1926, the Columbia Graphophone Company acquired Parlophone's business, name, logo, and ...
Of course, the story of Parlophone Records is incomplete without mentioning the Beatles. The group travelled to London in early 1962 to audition for Parlophone’s rival Label, Decca. As history reminds us, Decca ‘wasn’t looking for another guitar group’ so they instead signed the guitar group Brian Poole and the Tremeloes. Go figure.
