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Pre-history. MCA Inc., a talent agency and television production company, entered the recorded music business in 1962 with the purchase of the New York –based US Decca Records (established in 1934 [1] ), including Coral Records and Brunswick Records. MCA was forced to exit the talent agency business in order to complete the merger.
- Self-distributed
- July 2003 (absorbed into Geffen Records)
- 1934 (as Decca Records), 1972 (official)
- Universal Pictures
Universal City, California 91608. U.S.A. (818) 777-1000. Public Company. Incorporated: 1958. Employees: 17,700. Sales: $1.5 billion. Stock Index: New York Pacific. MCA, once known in the entertainment industry as “ The Octopus, ” was for many years the largest talent agency in the United States.
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Jan 29, 1985 · Consequently, when it was announced in April, 1983, that he was taking the helm of the sixth-largest record distributor in the United States at a salary reported to be about $1 million a year ...
Sep 8, 1970 · Berle Adams, executive vice president and director of MCA, Inc., an entertainment concern, said yesterday he would resign effective next January. He said he had “no present plans.”. Share full ...
Nov 27, 1990 · The History of MCA. By JANE APPLEGATE. Nov. 27, 1990 12 AM PT. 1912: Carl Laemmle joins with a half-dozen small motion picture companies to create Universal Pictures. Three years later, he moves ...
Mar 22, 2024 · In April 1970, former Warner Records president Mike Maitland joined MCA and initially served as Decca's general manager. Maitland was unsuccessful in his attempt to consolidate Warner Records with co-owned Atlantic Records which led to his departure from Warner.
Nov 25, 2023 · Things seemed to start to change in 1970, when Mike Maitland, whose attempt to merge Warner Bros. Records and Atlantic Records when he headed the former was unsuccessful, was installed as...
