{"id":2437,"date":"2019-10-20T13:16:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T05:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/absolutemusik.com\/?page_id=2437"},"modified":"2023-03-14T00:36:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T16:36:42","slug":"classical-vinyl-labels-columbia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/absolutemusik.com\/en\/collecting-vinyl-records\/classical-vinyl-labels\/classical-vinyl-labels-columbia\/","title":{"rendered":"CLASSICAL Vinyl Labels – COLUMBIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Columbia Records<\/strong> is the oldest continually used brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888. Columbia was originally the local company distributing and selling Edison phonographs and phonograph cylinders in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Delaware.
\nColumbia began selling disc records and phonographs in addition to the cylinder system in 1901. For a decade Columbia competed with both the Edison Phonograph Company cylinders and the Victor Talking Machine Company disc records as one of the top three names in recorded sound. In 1908 Columbia introduced mass production of “Double Sided” disc records, with recordings stamped into both sides of the disc.<\/p>\n

In July of 1912 Columbia decided to concentrate exclusively on disc records, and stopped recording new cylinder records and manufacturing cylinder phonographs. In early 1925 Columbia began recording with the new electric recording process licensed from Western Electric.<\/p>\n

In 1931, the English Columbia Graphophone Company merged with the Gramophone Company to form Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. (EMI). EMI was forced to sell its American Columbia operations because of anti-trust concerns to the American Record Corporation (ARC).<\/p>\n

In 1948 Columbia introduced the Long Playing microgroove (LP) record (sometimes in early advertisements Lp) format, rotating at 33\u2153 revolutions per minute, which became the standard for the gramophone record for half a century.<\/p>\n

In 1988 Columbia\/CBS Records was acquired by Sony, who re-christened the parent division Sony Music Entertainment. As Sony only had a temporary license on the CBS Records name, it then acquired from EMI its former rights to the Columbia trademarks outside the U.S., Canada and Japan (Columbia Graphophone), which generally had not been used by EMI since the 1960’s.<\/p>\n

Sony merged its music division with Bertelsmann AG’s BMG unit in 2004; the combined company, Sony BMG, continues to use the Columbia Records name and Walking Eye logo in all markets except Japan (where that division is called Sony Records and is still fully owned by Sony).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
COLUMBIA Labels<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Columbia 1st Mono Label, at the bottom, “LONG PLAYING MICROGROOVE<\/span>“, around 1948~1955<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Columbia grey 6-eye Label, also called “6-eye” (Mono Label), around 1955~1962<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Columbia White 6-eye mono Promo Label<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Columbia Grey 6-eye Stereo Label, around 1958~1962<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Columbia 2-eye mono Label, serial starts with ML, around 1962~1968<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Columbia 2-eye mono – 2nd Label<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Columbia 2-eye stereo Label, at the bottom with “360 SOUND STEREO” in black printed, serial starts with MS, around 1962~1965<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Columbia 2-eye stereo Label, at the bottom with “360 SOUND STEREO” in black printed, serial starts with MS, around 1965~1970<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Columbia 1970s Label<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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After Columbia restructured to CBS, all Label written “CBS MASTERWORKS” and with no “eye”!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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CBS MASTERWORKS Digital Recording Label<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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CBS MASTERWORKS 1980s Label<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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CBS MASTERWORKS Digital Recording Label in 1980s<\/span>, near the hole with “DIGITAL” printed at both sides<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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CBS MASTERWORKS PORTRAIT series Label, re-issue records in 1980s<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Columbia-Odyssey Label, Odyssey is a re-issue brand name, with Columbia and other brand name reproductions<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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CBS Great Performances Label, the Re-issue of early recordings from Columbia, around the beginning of 1980s<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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COLUMBIA (UK) Label<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Columbia 33 CX Label – England pressing, golden font on blue background, at the 12o’clock position, there is a logo with musical sybomls called “Magic Note”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Columbia 33 C 10″ Label – England pressing, golden font on blue background, at the 12o’clock position, there is a logo with musical sybomls called “Magic Note”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Columbia CX series Label<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Columbia MAGIC NOTES<\/b> registered label<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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