{"id":2411,"date":"2019-11-15T08:48:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T00:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/absolutemusik.com\/?page_id=2411"},"modified":"2023-03-13T23:25:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T15:25:49","slug":"classical-vinyl-labels-mercury","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/absolutemusik.com\/en\/collecting-vinyl-records\/classical-vinyl-labels\/classical-vinyl-labels-mercury\/","title":{"rendered":"CLASSICAL Vinyl Labels – MERCURY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MERCURY<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mercury<\/b> Records was a record label founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1945 by Irving Green, Berle Adams and Arthur Talmadge.\u00a0 They were a major force in jazz and blues, classical music, rock and roll, and country music recordings.
\nEarly in their history, Mercury opened two pressing plants, one in Chicago and the other in St. Louis, Missouri.<\/span>The company released an enormous number of recordings under the Mercury label as well as its subsidiaries (Blue Rock Records, Cumberland Records, Emarcy Records, Fontana, Limelight Records, Philips Records, Smash Records and Wing Records). In addition, they leased and purchased material by independent labels and redistributed them.
\nUnder their own label, Mercury released all kinds of recordings from classical music to psychedelic rock. However, its subsidiaries focused on their own specialized categories of music.In 1961 the Dutch company, Philips, signed an exchange agreement with Mercury, and Philips subsequently bought Mercury and its subsidiary labels to expand its US base.\u00a0 In 1962 Philips merged its record operations with Deutsche Grammophon to become PolyGram in the early 1970s.Under PolyGram, Mercury absorbed Casablanca Records, in 1982 and primarily became a rock\/pop label with KISS, The Scorpions, Tears For Fears and Def Leppard.\u00a0 In the late 1990’s PolyGram merged with Universal Music, under the reorganization, Mercury became split into an imprint of the “new” Island Def Jam Music Group (combining Island and Def Jam) for pop releases and a stand-alone country label, Mercury Nashville Records.\u00a0 The “pop” division of Mercury under Island Def Jam and its artists were later absorbed completely into Island Def Jam Records, with the logo being used for reissued material only.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Mercury Mono – 1st pressing, at the upper part printed “<\/span>OLYMPIAN SERIES<\/b><\/span>” (all early records was manufactured by RCA)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Mercury Mono – 1st pressing, at the upper part printed “OLYMPIAN SERIES” with bigger fonts.\u00a0 (from this stage, the records are manufactured by its own factory.)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Mercury Stereo – 1st Label, label colour in between brown and red<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Mercury Stereo – 2nd Label, label colour in between purple and red<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Mercury VENDOR<\/b> Label, at the upper part, “VENDOR: MERCURY RECORD CORPORATION” written between “MERCURY” & “STEREO”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Mercury Stereo – 2nd Label, at the upper part with the “MERCURY” logo<\/i><\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Mercury Stereo – 3rd Label, black font on the orange background, with 12 mercury <\/b><\/i>logos surrounded<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Mercury Golden Imports Label, navy with brass fonts, manufactured in Holland by Philips<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Mercury Promotional VENDOR<\/b> Label, white in colour for DJ \/ broadcasting<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Mercury Promotional Golden VENDOR<\/b> Label, for broadcasting only<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Mercury Promotional White VENDOR<\/b> Label<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Mercury Promotional Yellow Label, at the top and middle part with “Mercury” logo<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Mercury Promotional Label, at the top and middle part with a “Mercury” logo<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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